1980-s Quote by Michael Lewis

“The rich would have spoken on the value of thrift and the idle grown eloquent over the dignity of labour.”

— Oscar Wilde

“This isn’t a thrift store… We’re not selling them something less expensive, we’re selling them something more special. We have to tell them the…

— Erin McKean

“They had managed to convert their wealth, which had originally been in the form of factories or stores or other demanding enterprises, into a…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“financial transactions that produced both wealth and unpopularity.”

— Thomas Sowell

“She’d paid full price, but life was a competition and she knew non-working wives of wealthy men loved to talk about how they’d saved…

— Liane Moriarty

“It had come back to him simply that what he had been looking at all summer was a very rich and beautiful world, and…

— Henry James

“I believe that if markets were hidden deep in obscured places, it would definitely be impossible for some people to get there to make…

— Israelmore Ayivor

Our look evolved from the fact that we bought thrift-store clothes. It wasn't like, 'Let adopt a thrift-store aesthetic.' We just didn't have any…

— Fred Schneider

“Who were these people with money, and what had they done that they should enjoy so much luxury, where others as good seemingly as…

— Theodore Dreiser

“And now they were weary and frightened because they had gone against a system they did not understand and it had beaten them. They…

— John Steinbeck

In the garment trades, on the other hand, the presence of a body of the disfranchised, of the weak and young, undoubtedly contributes to…

— Florence Kelley

“And with the inflation our inner system disintegrated utterly. Fortunes disappeared overnight. Money that one day would have meant lifelong security, on the next…

— Kathrine Kressmann Taylor