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Here's What Wealthy People Want In Their Luxury Homes
Megan WillettAlmost everyone wants a home on the water.In its annual Luxury Lifestyle Report, Sotheby’s International Realty breaks down what’s important to wealthy real estate buyers. When it came to...
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CNN's Anderson Cooper Buys Litchfield Estate
CNN anchor Anderson Cooper has got some new digs in Connecticut, according to a report from the New York Post. The Post reports Cooper paid between $5 and $9 million for the historic Rye House, a...
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Why Rich Families Lose Their Wealth
By Michael KlingGoing from rags to riches is the popular story, but the full story should be rags to rags in three generations. That's because children and grandchildren of the fortune-building super...
View ArticleWhat Would You Sacrifice to Maintain Your Wealthy Lifetyle?
BY DONALD LIEBENSONMillionaires credit hard work as the primary factor in their financial success, according to Spectrem’s Millionaire Corner research. But does all this hard work to create and...
View ArticleOpponents cry 'snobbery' after giant superstore gets green light - 'because...
By Neil Elkes 'High order retail' development in Longbridge gets thumbs-up after Tesco and Primark were rejectedSnobbish councillors only gave the green light for a giant superstore in Birmingham...
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How The $1 Billion Kennedy Family Fortune Defies Death And Taxes
Carl O'Donnell Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., is shown surrounded by his family. Clockwise, from bottom left: Robert, Eunice, John, Kathleen, Joe Jr., Rosemary, wife Rose, Teddy, Patricia and Jean. (AP...
View ArticleSuper-wealthy help Rolls-Royce sales motor on
LAURA CHESTERS Demand from the world’s super wealthy for fast, expensive cars helped Rolls-Royce Motor Cars glide noiselessly to a 33% increase in sales in the first half.The record growth for the...
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Class is an aura
“Class is an aura of confidence that is being sure without being cocky. Class has nothing to do with money. Class never runs scared. It is self-discipline and self-knowledge. It's the sure-footedness...
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The very rich
“[Very rich people] with brains make a great effort to hold on to every penny they have while preaching to the general population that freedom and dignity and patriotism are possible only under their...
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An old joke
“An old joke has an Oxford professor meeting an American former graduate student and asking him what he's working on these days. 'My thesis is on the survival of the class system in the United...
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Then there's class
“There's money, and then there's class. The two are often separated.” ― Kate Jacobs, The Friday Night Knitting Club
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1000 years
“If people lived to be a thousand years old, there’d be extreme inequality, based not on class like now, but on genetics. Think how far behind unmotivated and lazy people lag now after only 65 years on...
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Class is.........
“Class is entirely intangible, and the way it affects things isn't subject to scientific analysis, and it's not supposed to be real but it's pervasive and powerful. See; just like magic.” ― Jo Walton,...
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a matter of spirit
It (racing) is a matter of spirit, not strength. It is a matter of doing your best each little moment. There's never a break. You must have desire, a very intense desire to keep going. Janet Guthrie
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snobbery
“I suppose there is no place in the world where snobbery is quite so ever-present or where it is cultivated in such refined and subtle forms as in an English public school. Here at least one cannot say...
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