Advantages of Wealth Quotes

I remember Michael saying, 'Rich and famous? It's much better to be just rich'. I didn't quite get it to begin with. But he's right. You lose anonymity. I say to my family that you've no idea until you lose it how precious anonymity is.

Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.

I feel like I have the fortune of privilege, particularly as it relates to my children.

I used to believe, like many people who come from poor backgrounds, that it gave me an edge, but I think that's just something we have to tell ourselves to get by sometimes. I don't believe that anymore. Children of privilege can be just as talented and clever as anybody else.

I've been rich and I've been poor. Rich is better.

I was lucky because I got so successful so early, and when you get successful early, then you can afford to be a little bit humble.

One of the privileges of the great is to witness catastrophes from a terrace.

Had I not been Roddy Llewellyn, I don't suppose anyone would have bothered to take an interest in my ambition to make a record.