financial contrast Quotes

It's something I've always kicked around, not doing the eBook but the Rich Man, Poor Man thing.

Everything must be in contrast at an affair like this. You know, to show anything off properly you must have the contrast. Now, I am here tonight representing poverty. We have enough wealth right here at this table, right here at the speaker's table alone---their conscience should hurt them, which I doubt if it does---so that we could liquidate our national debt. Every rich man reaches a time in his career when he comes to a turning point and starts to give it away.

I love nice things - I consider Ralph Lauren sheets to be a necessity, not a luxury - but I've known what it's like to be poor.

Rich man and poor move side by side toward the limit of death.

My sister does all this community-service type stuff in Portland that makes the world a much better place. And I make as much in a two-day commercial shoot as she does in five years, which is ridiculous.

If the factory people outside the colleges live under the discipline of narrow means, the people inside live under almost every other kind of discipline except that of narrow means -- from the fruity austerities of learning, through the iron rations of English gentlemanhood, down to the modest disadvantages of occupying cold stone buildings without central heating and having to cross two or three quadrangles to take a bath.

That rich guy you've been seeing, must have put you down. Welcome back baby, to the poor side of town.

A pauper in the midst of wealth.

I come from an extremely modest background. So now I have way more than what I'm used to.

Mathematicians deal with large numbers sometimes, but never in their income.

There's something so romantic about being broke in New York. You gotta do it. You have to live there once without any money, and then you have to live there when you have money. Let me tell you, of the two, the latter is far better.

I remember having no money and debating whether I should go get fast food or eat at Mom's for free. Now I'm going to these fancy places on vacation and ordering room service. I treat myself because I remember not having it.

The petty economies of the rich are just as amazing as the silly extravagances of the poor.

The family of my mother had a lot of money; the family of my father, nothing.

The difference between the National Football League and college is this: In college, you are a broke college student.

I'm not the guy to get big record company budgets. My budget is Britney Spears' catering money.

I have worked out that I am living in London on £27 a day while David Cameron is claiming a damn sight more for his big house in Oxford.