Quotes / Rich in Dollars, Poor in Sense

Fanfic

Dabi: Yeesh, who turned off the heat?
Shigaraki: The electric company, since we didn't pay our last bill.
Dabi: Why didn't you pay it?
Compress: Because we have no money.
Dabi: Come on, the bill couldn't have been more than the cost of a cup of instant noodles.
Spinner: Of course an electric bill is more expensive! Do you have no conception of money? Did you come from a rich family?

— The Lebowski Gambit

Live-action TV

It's one banana! How much could it cost? Ten dollars?

— Lucille Bluth, Arrested Development

Thea: You don't know a thing about me.

Roy: Thea Queen. Trust fund brat. Totaled her car, which she got as a birthday present. Loves designer labels and is usually in the tabloids for partying too much. Did I leave anything out?

— Arrow

Web Original

Jaden tells GQ that he and Willow are still homeschooled so they get to choose what they want to study. Their curriculum probably looks like this:

Period 1 – Bonging 101 
Period 2 – Dianetics 
Period 3 – Bonging 102 
Period 4 – Pyramid Making 
Period 5 – Bonging 103

—Michael K., "Jaden Smith Is The Reincarnation Of Galileo, It All Makes Sense Now"

Among the allegations made by Johnny’s former managers at TMG are that Johnny has spent more than $500,000 in warehouse storage fees, that he spent $7000 on a couch from the set of Keeping Up with the Kardashians for his daughter, that he spends $30,000 a month on wine and that he dropped $3 million to blow the ashes of his friend Hunter S. Thompson out of a cannon...Johnny is at the point now where he’s spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on a sound engineer who feeds him his lines on set through an earpiece...Maybe every time Johnny went to blow tens of thousands on wine, the guy on the other end could do him a favor and provide the sound of a repo truck pulling up to one of his 14 mansions.

—DListed, "Johnny Depp Talks To Rolling Stone About His Alleged Bad Financial Decisions And Earpiece Acting"

[Dan] Snyder is the rare self-made billionaire. Alas, one of the ways Snyder Communications made him that fortune was by forging customers' signatures and switching their phone service without their consent. His company was fined $3.1 million for this, or about one-tenth of what he wastes on the average free agent.

—Drew Magary, "The 25 Biggest Sleazebags in Sports!"

Without even glancing at the reams of big data that I'm sure Sears has languishing about its server rooms, I can assert with confidence that Rolex and Chanel are not the brands the retailer's core customers want to buy... Lampert seems to think that Sears' demographic wants to buy what he'd like to buy. I'm thinking that someone who lives in a $38 million mansion does not share Middle America's shopping tastes, generally speaking.

—Jennifer J. Bosavage on Kmart CEO Eddie Lampert

Web Video

"When I was working on the phones doing tech support, there was one person that called in who had been paying for premium internet access. I wanna say about 110-120 dollars a month. They had been doing this for 2 to 3 years, but their account showed that they had never activated it before. So, in other words, they were finally getting around to using their internet for the first time, after having paid thousands for it for years, never using it at all. If this sounds like something you would do, I want you to sign up immediately. Select the recurring payment option... Maybe you're the kind of person who has all their bills automated? You have so much money, you don't even know half the stuff you're payin' for each month! If that's you, make a recurring donation right now. You can do it once, and forget all about it! Everything will be fine."

— Ross Scott on taking donations from fans

Johnny, narrating: We begin just a few hours after we left off after All Crims Night in Redcastle. So, basically, you've dumped your booty that you took from the house in a nearby, I guess-
Dob: Lake.
Johnny (trying to keep their poker face): S-Sure, that's a, I mean, I guess it's certainly secure. It's in a lake now...
Dob: No-one's gonna be looking for it in a lake.
Egbert, out of character: Remember, Dob, when you say things, they actually happen.
Johnny: Oh, that's canon now. It's in a lake now.

— Oxventure: A Fishmas Carol

Real Life

The best client is a scared millionaire.

—H. L. Mencken

''...the FAA requires that I have two pilots. Otherwise, I'd just hit the same fuckin' buttons that they hit, sit back here, and then wait for us to get wherever we're goin'. Just keepin' it real man, keepin' it real."

—Sales guru Grant Cardorne thinks he can do a better job than his pilot by "pushing some buttons"

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