Wealthy Wannabe Mugs

"It all started when I didn't grow up in a palatial estate."

"I know it's silly, but I always pictured rich men as fat little people."

A smiling man leaning on large piggy bank.

News Internecine: Murdoch succession battle

Circa 1490: The area we now know as Wall Street.

'Most of all, I'd like to thank god. . .'

'Jeez! I never realized just sitting and trying not to look stupid was so exhausting.'

As Seen On TV

'I think winning that last hand went to Bob's head, because he now has an entourage.'

'Motivation...I want huge amounts of money. Vast amounts of cash.'

King and Queen with real estate agent view castle for sale: 'My wife likes it, but she wants to know if you have the same thing in purple.'

Business men's lunches: Tycoons ?25, On the way downers ?2.50.

"Well, I thought of it as an innovative economic stimulus package, but the jury insisted on calling it securities fraud!"

House building chart (like steps).

Everyone in Tinseltown deserves 15 minutes of obscurity.

"There comes a time, Little Buddy, when you have to just accept that you'll never be famous....that your life will never be adapted for television and that when you die, only five or six people will truly care."

"I want to be a footballer's wife."

"I understand he's compensating for having been left out of the stock option programme."

Are you crazy? ... You make 10 million dollars a year and you want to know the meaning of life?

Mu$k

"I guess I want what everyone wants - a billion dollars for being a jerk."

Your Ticket to Fame and Fortune...sold out.

'Get rich quick schemes - $1,000,000 each.'

'Arthur Fogle here, pretending to be the next Warren Buffett.'

'Thank you. Do you mind if I spray it about like they do on tv?'

I'm emulating my dad - running around with mags like this. Looking smart...and in truth I'm just reading the funnies and the horoscopes!

I subsequently discovered that launching a hostile takeover of a bank has a very poor riskreturn trade-off.

My husband's dynamic, aggressive executive material, but he's too shy to say so!

'So like, loan dude, isn't it O.K. to get the actual icea for the kind of e-business we'd like to start after you lend us the $50 million?'

'If you're so smart, how come you never invest any of your own money?'

"...it all started when I was sixteen and I sent away for one of those 'Get Rich Quick' schemes."

'I'll get even with them. Someday I'll become a full-commission stockbroker.'