'Since he could afford nearly anything, nothing had any value. He'd buy a $400 KitchenAid mixer and burn it up making Christmas candy the first week. If he wanted to make more candy, he'd buy another.'
"I've thought about this a lot as someone who grew up poor but has been in a number of relationships with women from the upper or upper middle class. I think what it boils down to is that they have a kind of certainty in the idea that things will work out for them that I don't. Growing up, it felt like we were always at the precipice of catastrophe. I always felt that one wrong move would result in us losing our house or all of our money.
"The most interesting thing is that old money is much more powerful than new money. They belonged to these 'clubs' that consisted of other rich families and the influence they had was mind-blowing. Want to build a factory in an area not zoned for it? Within a week that was changed.""He didn’t have any concept of saving money, it was always just there because his money was always earning money. Having money was an income stream in itself.
He set up a trust fund for each one of my kids to have their college paid for a little bit after that. He told me out of all of his in-laws I was the only one that never asked him for anything but to be himself.""I grew up poor and at 18 I dated a super-rich guy. First thing I noticed was the food. Not just quantities but I also discovered so much food things my parents could never buy. I also had to learn etiquette.
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