The only truly affluent are those who do not want more than they have.
It's quite astonishing how much money people make in the hedge fund business and in the private equity field, and how well-off affluent families really are.
The fact is that, except for those very few whose wealth is overwhelmingly or entirely inherited, the more affluent have usually worked harder than the less affluent.
We sell to an affluent demographic, so it is important for us to project a professional image.
I feel affluent or not according to what part of town I am in.
[Suburbia] represents, after all, the greatest misallocation of resources in the history of the world. We built it during our most affluent period of history, and in the decades to come we will be comparatively destitute collectively. In short, we will not have the resources to retrofit most of suburbia.
