Corinne: [while riding in a helicopter] This is the Drax estate now. Everything you see belongs to Mr. Drax. James Bond: He owns a lot, doesn't he? Corinne: What he doesn't own, he doesn't want.
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Quotes tagged ‘Wealth’
Rachel Chu: Thanks for meeting me here. [Eleanor eyes the other two women at the mahjong table] Don't worry about them. They're half-deaf and they only speak Hokkien. [Long pause as Eleanor reluctantly settles into her seat] me mahjong would teach me important life skills: Negotiation. Strategy. Coo…
— Pete Chiarelli, Adele Lim, Rachel Chu, Constance Wu, imdb.com
Nephew Fred: A merry Christmas, Uncle Ebenezer! God save you. Ebenezer Scrooge: God save me from Christmas. It's another humbug. Nephew Fred: Christmas a humbug? Come, now. I'm sure you don't mean that. Ebenezer Scrooge: And I'm sure that I do mean that. Merry Christmas, indeed. What reason have you…
— Leslie Bricusse, Ebenezer Scrooge, Albert Finney, imdb.com
How shall I ever understand this world? There is nothing on which it is so hard as poverty, and yet, there is nothing it condemns with such severity as the pursuit of wealth.
— Leslie Bricusse, Ebenezer Scrooge, Albert Finney, imdb.com
You have to understand that growing up during the Depression, I saw my parents struggling to pay the rent. My father was always unemployed, and when he did have a job, he was a dress cutter. Not very much money there. I was happy enough to get a nice paycheck and be treated well. I always got the hi…
There’s an accounting coming, Mr. Stussy, and you know I’m right. Mongol hordes descending. Now what are you doing to insulate yourself and your family? You think you’re rich. You’ve no idea what ‘rich’ means. ‘Rich’ is a fleet of private planes filled with decoys to mask your scent. It’s a banker i…
— Bob DeLaurentis, Noah Hawley, V.M. Vargas, David Thewlis, imdb.com
It is hard to understand wealth and privilege when you're born to it.
First class, that's what's wrong. It used to be a better meal, now it's a better life.
The only wealth in this world is children; more than all the money, power on earth, you are my treasure.
— Mario Puzo, Francis Ford Coppola, Don Michael Corleone, Al Pacino, imdb.com
I say to all of you, I have been treated this day, with no respect. I've earned you all money. I've made you rich, and I asked for little. Good. You will not give, I'll take! As for Don, Corleone, well he makes it, very clear to me today, that he is my enemy. You must choose between us.
— Mario Puzo, Francis Ford Coppola, Joey Zasa, Joe Mantegna, imdb.com
The richest man is the one with the most powerful friends.
— Mario Puzo, Francis Ford Coppola, Don Altobello, Eli Wallach, imdb.com
I love this planet! I’ve got wealth, fame, and access to the depths of sleaze that those things bring.
We sit in our buildings overlooking Manhattan. We don’t know, we don’t know the real world.
I'm a man of wealth and taste.
Do you think anybody helped me build this fortune?
Most people just have a fundamentally flawed view of money.
— Bill Dubuque, Mark Williams, Mark Williams, Marty Byrde, Jason Bateman, imdb.com
In today’s materialistic world there is a risk of people becoming slaves to money, as though they were simply cogs in a huge money-making machine. This does nothing for human dignity, freedom, and genuine well-being. Wealth should serve humanity, and not the other way around.
I see a man who's been accustomed to wealth, but has given himself to excess and the unbridled pleasures of youth. A man much more complicated than he likes to appear.
I believe wealth does, in fact, isolate you from other people. It’s a protective mechanism.
And it's as well, to do it while I'm alive to see to it myself — for I've often observed that if you leave your world's gear to the poor when you're dead, just for the good reason that you can't take it to the grave with you — it'll melt in a wonderful way through the hands of the 'secretaries' and…