J Balvin Quotes

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

Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth.

Without money honor is merely a disease.

A chair's function is not just to provide a place to sit; it is to provide a medium for self-expression. Chairs are about status, for example. Or signalling something about oneself. That's why the words chair, seat and bench have found themselves used to describe high status professions, from academia to Parliament to the law.

I wanted to have money; I wanted to be special; I wanted people to like me; I wanted to be famous.

Horses and horsepower alike are about status and being cool.

Human nature doesn't change. When enough people are comfortable enough financially, there is going to be human nature that wants to spend more money on better quality and, to some degree, status symbols as well.

Titles were symbols, just as impressive buildings were symbols, except that titles, unlike buildings, cost nothing.

Wealth has never been a sufficient source of honour in itself. It must be advertised, and the normal medium is obtrusively expensive.

I don't understand why everyone fights for power, money, fame.

It's a lot of bling to play with. You got to have the bling.

Money doesn't buy class.

I have always resented the way the other sultans and emirs of my time have become too caught up in glory, pride and wealth

There are two things that are fundamental—money and power, and I don’t care much about money

We judge of entire nations by the productions of a few mechanical arts, and think we are talking of men, while we are boasting of their estates, their dress, and their palaces. The sense in which we apply the terms, great, and noble, high rank, and high life, show, that we have, on such occasions, transferred the idea of perfection from the character to the equipage; and that excellence itself is, in our esteem, a mere pageant, adorned at a great expense, by the labors of many workmen.

…property in fact generally confers power, though the possessor of it may not have much more wit than a mole or a mugwash…

…in Europe, he is thought to be the best who is the richest.

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

I don't understand this pathetic need for luxuries.

You wear your jewelry, don't let it wear you.

I've had the belt and it's great. But at the end of the day it's just 12 pounds of leather and gold.

When I was growing up, we were in a high income bracket, one of the highest. I was one of the first in high school to get a car. And I didn't have to wait for it to be a graduation present, either. We've probably got one of the nicest houses in Sacramento.

How many BMWs do you need? How many Rolex watches you gonna wear in your lifetime, for crying out loud? What is it about that kind of desire? I don't understand it.

I want my kids to win. Winners get the corner office, the big house, the hot wife, the whole nine.

There is always a reason behind things that are made, and if there isn't, there will be one when they travel through the world. The objects of beauty are used to impress, seduce, overwhelm, make money, support identities, and show power or style, among other things.