Quotes about luxury
luxury people progress
Rich people are the experimental ground for every new development. The nature of progress is that what begins as a luxury for the rich becomes a necessity for the poor as it's developed and passed on. Milton Friedman
luxury innovation company
Most companies don't have the luxury of focusing exclusively on innovation. They have to innovate while stamping out zillions of widgets or processing billions of transactions. Gary Hamel
luxury ifs
Depression, if it's an unconsciously elected experience, is a luxury. Jesse Eisenberg
luxury psychosis safety
The luxury of being half-asleep, exploring the fringes of psychosis in safety. Ian Mcewan
luxury healthy elements
Once we are fed, heated, housed and healthy, our extra consumption inevitably has an element of luxury about it. And once luxury enters the scene, the practicalities are in trouble, as women who wear expensive stiletto heels can testify. Evan Davis
luxury people example
How can I ask people who work for me to travel cheaply if I am traveling in luxury? Ingvar Kamprad
luxury storm poverty
Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains. Hannah More
luxury type
It's a luxury to have that type of player.
luxury being-free
The greatest luxury is being free. Manolo Blahnik
luxury giving doing-good
The luxury of doing good surpasses every other personal enjoyment. John Gay
luxury able mediums
I guess the ultimate luxury professionally is to be able to change your direction, to work in another medium. Paul McCartney
luxury ruins aristocracy
The odious and disgusting aristocracy of wealth is built upon the ruins of all that is good in chivalry or republicanism; and luxury is the forerunner of a barbarism scarcely capable of cure. Percy Bysshe Shelley
luxury design quality
For me, luxury is intelligence and quality. I don't see a lot of intelligence and quality in luxury when it's used to make fast, big money. Philippe Starck
luxury survival morality
Morality is a luxury we can't afford out here. There's no right or wrong, just survival or death. Peter Milligan
luxury negative enemy-within
You can't afford the luxury of a negative thought Peter McWilliams
luxury dancing world
If theater is ritual, then dance is too... It's as if the threads connecting us to the rest of the world were washed clean of preconceptions and fears. When you dance, you can enjoy the luxury of being you. Paulo Coelho
luxury mind use
Poverty is dishonorable, not in itself, but when it is a proof of laziness, intemperance, luxury, and carelessness; whereas in a person that is temperate, industrious, just and valiant, and who uses all his virtues for the public good, it shows a great and lofty mind. Plutarch
luxury people telephones
Back then, the excise tax was designed to be a luxury tax for people who owned telephones. Mike Fitzpatrick
luxury atmosphere poverty
It had been a royal time of luxury to him, with all its stings and contumelies, compared to the poverty that crept round and clipped the anticipation of the future down to sordid fact, and life without an atmosphere of either hope or fear. Elizabeth Gaskell
luxury lucky salt
A slab of bread "buttered" with lard and, if you were lucky, seasoned with salt and pepper, was a luxury. Jimmy Hoffa
luxury fragrance
You shouldn't have to have money to have a luxury fragrance. Lady Gaga
luxury
God is not a luxury you can't afford; He's a necessity you truly cannot live without! Monica Denise Brown
luxury poverty done
I've always been after the trappings of great luxury. But all I've got hold of are the trappings of great poverty. I've got hold of the wrong load of trappings, and a rotten load they are too, ones I could have very well done without. Peter Cook
luxury people respectful
We’re in the business of luxury and there’s nothing more luxurious than being good to people, being respectful of them.
luxury care shallow
But, you see, that's the luxury of being a lout - you get to be selective about when you care and when you don't. The rest of us get stuck when your care goes shallow. Rachel Cohn
luxury honor halls
Honour is a luxury for aristocrats, but it is a necessity for hall-porters. Gilbert K. Chesterton
luxury people able
I didn't work very much when they were young, and I had the luxury to be able to do that. Most people can't. Jodie Foster
luxury-hotels giving breakfast
Staying in luxury hotels still gives me a kick, especially Oulton Hall in Yorkshire. I'd stay in a hotel for the breakfast and room service. Jimmy Carr
luxury insecurity
Insecurity, however, is a luxury on which I never economize. Judith Thurman
luxury firsts opulence
Protection is the first necessity of opulence and luxury. Joseph Conrad
luxury wealth distinction
In the affluent society, no useful distinction can be made between luxuries and necessities. John Kenneth Galbraith
luxury vanity income
Luxury is the income tax of vanity. But it is so pleasant. Karl Lagerfeld
luxury bling finest
EXTREME LUXURY ISN'T THE MOST BLING-BLING, IT'S EXTREME REFINEMENT, WHICH IS COUTURE AT ITS FINEST.