“Nothing is more portable than rich people and their money”

“A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money”

“Poor people are more greedy than rich people”

“Sir, money, money, the most charming of all things; money, which will say more in one moment than the most elegant lover can in years. Perhaps you will say a man is not young; I answer he is rich. He is not genteel, handsome, witty, brave, good-humoured, but he is rich, rich, rich, rich, rich — that one word contradicts everything you can say against him.”

“There are people who have money and people who are rich.”

“People don’t want to be rich. They want to be able to choose. The richer you are, the more choices you have. That is the freedom of money.”

“[The rich] are indeed rather possessed by their money than possessors.”

“You are rich if and only if money you refuse tastes better than money you accept.”

“People will no more advance their civility to a bear, than their money to a bankrupt.”

“It is extremely unlikely that I will ever be one of the richest people in the world. Almost all rich people were born rich, and almost all of them marry other rich people, and almost all of them hold onto almost all of their money, to pass on to their kids. Money doesn't appear out of nowhere—the more they have, the less for me. Life is a "zero sum game," and I am the zero.”