Diana Vreeland Quotes

There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.

Middle class was defined by having certain values and only a certain amount of money. But this new middle class seems to have absolutely no values and an unlimited amount of money.

I have to be honest about one thing. When I want to America, no on asked me how I was. Everyone always asked me, "How much do you make?"

My mind on my money, my money on my mind.

I’m lookin in the mirror & I see a dollar sign, I had a cat scan & I had money on my mind

Nothing, save the hangman's noose, concentrates the mind like piles of cash.

A hundred years ago Hester Prynne of The Scarlet Letter was given an A for adultery; today she would rate no better than a C-plus.

It's a sad commentary on our time - to use a phrase much favored by my late father - that people increasingly celebrate Christmas Day by going to the movies.

It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.

People think you're crazy if you turn money down... people worship money.

When I wake up in the morning, the first thing I look at is the checking account report from the day before. I love checking accounts. I dream about them.

People go to see beautiful paintings to see how much they cost. Wow. The practical value is that it shows you what the human spirit can do.

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.

Cultural standards evolve. The meaning of the public interest also, of course, evolves.

There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men.

We have grown used to money. The handling, the increase of it, is the chief business of life now with most of us.

Today, people are more into the glitz and the glamour of everything. We don't even read the inside of records anymore.

The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.

It's a widely-held belief that Millennials are obsessed with money. And it's also wildly true. Just don't mistake it for a fixation with getting rich.

Anytime money is your main focus, I think we all come to problems.

I don't calculate my net worth.

I believe only in money, not in love or tenderness. Love and tenderness meant only pain and suffering and defeat. I would not let it ruin me as it ruined others! I would speak only with money, hard money.

Consumerism is, quite precisely, the consuming of life by the things consumed. It is living in a manner that is measured by having rather than being... and consumerism is hardly the sin of the rich. The poor, driven by discontent and envy, may be as consumed by what they do not have as the rich are consumed by what they do have. The question is not, certainly not most importantly, a question about economics. It is first and foremost a cultural and moral problem requiring a cultural and moral remedy.

There are new gods growing in America, clinging to growing knots of belief: gods of credit card and freeway, of Internet and telephone, of radio and hospital and television, gods of plastic and of beeper and of neon. Proud gods, fat and foolish creatures, puffed up with their own newness and importance. "They are aware of us, they fear us, and they hate us," said Odin. "You are fooling yourselves if you believe otherwise.

To believe that mind is all, that thought is all is only a higher materialism.