Perceived Wealth Quotes

Wealth and poverty are seen for what they are. It begins to be seen that the poor are only they who feel poor, and poverty consists in feeling poor. The rich, as we reckon them, and among them the very rich, in a true scale would be found very indigent and ragged.

I'm not rich, though everybody thinks I am.

Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more.

The more a man desirous to pass at a value above his worth can contrast, by dignified silence, the garrulity of trivial minds, the more the world will give him credit for the wealth which he does not possess.

Everyone thinks I am rich, I have a plush office, I make advertisements and travel - but only I know the kinds of problems I face.

I feel despised there, for having so little money; also for once having had so much. I never actually had it, of course. Father had it, and then Richard. But money was imputed to me, the same way crimes are imputed to those who've simply been present at them.

Celebrities are not necessarily the richest people of all, but on the face of it, they seem to be representative of the very richest people.

Your assumptions about the lives of others are in direct relation to your naïve pomposity. Many people you believe to be rich are not rich. Many people you think have it easy worked hard for what they got. Many people who seem to be gliding right along have suffered and are suffering. Many people who appear to you to be old and stupidly saddled down with kids and cars and houses were once every bit as hip and pompous as you.

Most people think they want more money than they really do, and they settle for a lot less than they could get

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

I may not have been wearing a mink coat, but I was traveling with a dog. That should have made you think I was an actress!

Most people want a lot more from us than stuff is worth because they think we're extremely wealthy or something.

I think our election proved to us that 'billionaire' is an incredibly magical word in our language in that people just defer to it. Donald Trump is not a billionaire, but he knew it was vital for him to be perceived as one.

A man is sometimes more generous when he has but a little money than when he has plenty, perhaps through fear of being thought to have but little.

People get intimidated because they think I have everything, but it's just not true.

I think people imagine that your fame somehow sort of equates with how much you get paid.

You speak of poverty and dependence. Who are poor and dependent? Who are rich and independent? When was it that men agreed to respect the appearance and not the reality?

If people associate you with the idea of loads of money, they in turn will give some of that money to you.

People see you on television, and they think you make the same amount of money that Clint Eastwood does. But this is PBS. All these shows are done for free.

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