Eric Cantona Quotes

Richness, the ideas of having plenty of money, is not ... an absolute state. Richness is about the amount of money you have compared to the people you see around you. It is about where you are in relation to others, and where they are in relation to you ... and whether you can have the things you want and other people have.

All i would like to say is that I'm rich and you're not.

[P]ride is something only folk with money can afford.

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

I have 18 cars, but I never had a Rolls-Royce.

Why do you need to drive a Ferrari to get stuck in a traffic jam anyway? How do people afford these cars?

I don't think Mercedes-Benz says anything about me, really. I was in a situation where I was able to get a really nice car, and I'm proud to have it.

I don't care what anyone says. Being rich is a good thing.

Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.

To be thought rich is as good as to be rich.

The difference between being a rich guy in America and a rich guy in Europe is that in America people look up to you for being rich.

You know our nation. If a citizen officer of one town has just one more silver button on his epaulette than another, great hue and cry arises and the important cause goes by the board …

Ferraris are lovely cars, but I just don't want to be seen in them.

When I was young, we always went to our posh cousins at Christmas. My dad made sure we had new shoes and clean clothes - he was really proud - and that's why I felt different from everyone living around me. We had the first television on the estate, the first fridge.

Being a billionaire is sort of passe.

If we were second class citizens we'd be driving old Cadillacs and living good. If we were first class we'd be driving a Rolls Royce.

You, who are ashamed of your poverty, and blush for your calling, are a snob; as are you who boast of your wealth.

I see guys who can't make 10 percent of what I make, and yet they have four Bentleys, three houses, and four bodyguards.

Most rich people are the poorest people I know.

People who are rich want to be richer, but what's the difference? The toys get different, that's all. The rich guys buy a football team, the poor guys buy a football. It's all relative.

Pride is what you can afford or think you can afford.

My shoes are worth more......than your house!

In poverty she is envious. In riches she may be a snob. Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms.

Oh, Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz - My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.

To say to a rich man: You are poor! is to tell the Archbishop of Granada that his sermons are worthless.