George Soros Quotes

The possession of wealth confers honor; it is an invidious distinction.

In L.A., like, there's a lot of, like, materialism, and, you know, people who think they're better than each other because of the clothes they wear or how they dress, and in Oakland, it's not like that.

When the idle poor become the idle rich, you'll never know just who is who, or which is which.

As the rich consume more and more, they are clearly not going to want to downgrade their own status.

Only the elites despise earning money.

The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.

Class is more important than a game.

The fact is, riches are power, and poverty is slavery all over the earth, and one sort of establishment is no better, no worse, for a people than another.

A house may be large or small; as long as the neighboring houses are likewise small, it satisfies all social requirement for a residence. But let there arise next to the little house a palace, and the little house shrinks to a hut. The little house now makes it clear that its inmate has no social position at all to maintain, or but a very insignificant one; and however high it may shoot up in the course of civilization, if the neighboring palace rises in equal or even in greater measure, the occupant of the relatively little house will always find himself more uncomfortable, more dissatisfied, more cramped within his four walls.

I learned early that class is universally admired.

In America time was gold; in Bangladesh, corrugated tin.

At least being prosperous set one apart in England; here it guaranteed nothing, not even taste.

Noble descent and worth, unless united with wealth, are esteemed no more than seaweed.

As long as there are rich people in the world, they will be desirous of distinguishing themselves from the poor.

At dinner parties I sit below the salt now. There are a lot of interesting people there.

We've never been people that go around and confront people that have been financially successful and say, 'We hate you. We envy you because of how well you're doing.'

It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob.

I have a feeling that life as a billionaire in Silicon Valley is very different than the life that you or I would lead. Unless you're a billionaire; I don't know your financial situation.

There's an unhealthy obsession in America with royalty and the class system.

I'm in that, I guess, top 2 percent or something.

The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.

The rich are those who play to win. The middle class plays not to lose.

There is a soak-the-rich attitude in the air, a feeling that if you have a lot of money you must have got it by some ghastly means. I can quite happily say there was never any family money. All the money we got was mine, just from writing books.

I'm not revealing any deep, hidden secret that there are wealthy people in Asia.

A Rolex watch or an expensive car are the things guys often use to show status, wealth, and basic desirability.