Financial Indulgence Quotes

Extravagance is the luxury of the poor; penury is the luxury of the rich.

The prodigality of millionaires is comparable only to their greed of gain. Let some whim or passion seize them and money is of no account. In fact these Croesuses find whims and passions harder to come by than gold.

The perfect pleasure: money is neither fattening nor immoral nor illegal.

The passion of acquiring riches in order to support a vain expense corrupts the purest souls.

Havin lunch and debatin Ferrari prices. 23 and goin through a midlife crisis.

Gaming is the child of avarice, but the parent of prodigality.

Happiness is being famous for your financial ability to indulge in every kind of excess.

I refer, of course, to the debts our nation has amassed for itself over decades of indulgence. It is the new Red Menace, this time consisting of ink. We can debate its origins endlessly and search for villains on ideological grounds, but the reality is pure arithmetic.

I'm not a big splurger of money, but my guilty pleasures do lie within BMWs. I get roped in.

I was trying to spend it as quickly as possible. Because I'm so lazy, all that money created a block. I was flying around the world, staying at fancy hotels, having fun and trying to get rid of it as quickly as possible, so I could get on with some more work.

To what faults do you feel most indulgent? To the ones that arise from urgent material needs.

there is no pleasure so sweet as the pleasure of spending money but the pleasure of writing is longer. There is no denying that.

I bought a pair of Carpe Diem boots, which were completely unnecessary and hideously expensive, but they make me feel quite fine and dandy.

The almost erotic pleasure of spending money that others have earned and saved is one reason people put up with the tiresome aspects of political life.