Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Pogge

We citizens of the affluent countries tend to discuss our obligations toward the distant needy mainly in terms of donations and transfers, assistance and redistribution: How much of our wealth, if any, should we give away to the hungry abroad?

What we know from these high performing, high poverty, high minority schools is that these kids can do it. If you provide the support they need, if you close the opportunity gap, they can do as well as affluent and white and Asian kids.

The people who can afford to move here in their 50s are affluent baby boomers. I think that trend will continue to drive our economy.

Where the average debt levels are really increasing are for children of more-affluent families. Children of affluent families are now almost as likely to borrow as children of less-affluent families.

We see more affluent youth going in for consumption, which is something that's very new for this part of the world.

While the general consumer has no problem using general travel portals, we feel that the affluent traveler has specific information needs that can only be found by providing a deeper level of service that is closer to concierge level than typically provided by the mass travel market.

The retail business in general is strong, and Federated is doing well, considering it has stores in major cities such as New York and San Francisco, where the affluent shopper is driving a lot of sales.

This is a very affluent community. The citizens of Celebration contribute more to the county than they get in services.

Initially, when they came out of the chute after the '91 recession, they hit a highly responsive chord with a public that was more focused on value. But even affluent people would go in and buy more goods.

In many cases, affluent homeowners have more than one trophy property for either recreational, entertainment or investment purposes.

The Vegas Venture Forum is a perfect opportunity for an affluent individual looking to provide capital for business start-ups.

There's still a very great need for that. Monroe is an affluent town, but there are people here who depend on thrift shops.

In affluent communities, where each member is keenly aware of his or her place within the Byzantine order, attracting the right friends is a blood sport. Chumming up to influential figures who are in a position to help can determine the course of an entire life.

Jeff Daly

If you're in an affluent county, but happen to be one of the smaller numbers percentage-wise, it would seem your life could be harder. It's more difficult to obtain affordable housing and participate in community life if you have less income than your neighbors.

(In) the industrial cities of 100 years ago ... millions of urban dwellers ... were obliged to endure cramped and unsanitary tenements, traffic and pollution-choked streets and deadly factories. Today, by comparison, most residents of affluent metropolitan areas live in relatively low-density suburbs, areas that are much cleaner, greener and safer than the neighborhoods their great-grandparents inhabited.

The danger going forward is that the formerly large middle class is shrinking, and we are depending on a relatively small fraction of affluent households to provide the bulk of future consumer-spending growth.

These aren't affluent people, and they were treated with less respect than they should have.

Lawrence Summers

An SAT score means one thing if the student comes from an affluent school, where there are SAT prep courses, and a very different thing if the student comes from a disadvantaged background where there was no SAT classes of any kind.

Michael Harrington

Our affluent society contains those of talent and insight who are driven to prefer poverty, to choose it, rather than to submit to the desolation of an empty abundance. It is a strange part of the other America that one finds in the intellectual slums.

Affluent consumers, a highly risk averse group, are showing signs of confidence in the economy as they move their money back into the stock market. This continued momentum is an excellent opportunity for financial planners to expand and diversify their customers' portfolios.

Affluent baby boomers have unique challenges when it comes to retirement planning and represent one of the largest opportunities for financial services firms. Mass marketing to this group of high net worth individuals simply doesn't work and requires a more thorough understanding of the affluent lifestyle, attitudes and behaviors. It's obvious from our research that there's lots of low hanging fruit yet to be picked.

There's an unspoken rule in affluent circles that suggests you can always define an individual's status by measuring his or her proximity to the most influential person in the room. And as the maxim goes, closer is always better.

The most affluent fans are driving the business in many ways.

This is not something that catches us by surprise. We have always had the simmering tensions of a city that is quite diverse ? that is, a working-class or lower-middle-class city with a quite affluent university right in the middle of it.

This isn't just some flippant idea or fool's errand. We're hoping to get the country to realize that you don't have to be affluent or powerful to make an impact.

This is a pretty affluent consumer. It's a fair statement that this probably wouldn't be affordable for households with under $100,000 annual income, and maybe more. That's an extremely small market.

As things get colder and heating bills build up, it's going to come right out of discretionary spending, which will impact less affluent consumers more. For the wealthy, it's an inconvenience rather than a lifestyle change.

Costco has the most affluent membership of all the membership stores.

Russell Crowe

My kids are being raised in a much more affluent environment than was mine. My wife and I talk about that all the time because neither of us had this kind of experience.

The series of U.K. partnerships we are announcing today will enable Ladbroke's, the world's leading betting group, to reach a far wider and more affluent audience,

Gordon Brown

We (in affluent countries) used to talk for centuries about what we could do for Africa. But the real question is about empowerment, and what Africa can do for itself.

The baby boomers are getting older, approaching the peak age for buying a boat. They're an affluent group of people.

The numbers were great ... they have great ratios, they have very affluent subscribers and their revenue per subscriber goes up every month. These guys are what every cable company wants to be when they grow up.