He was a rich man's son.

ECONOMIST: Pierre Trudeau

He was now a rich man, in an Italian silk suit and with solid gold bracelets on his wrists.

ECONOMIST: Oral Roberts

The junior minister said that when he was young he sang a hymn about "the rich man in his castle, the poor man at his gate".

BBC: European priorities for 2012/13

Whatever Mr Wilson was seeking to say about money in his book, it made him a rich man, although he would occasionally grumble that lawyers, accountants and the taxmen took a large slice of it.

ECONOMIST: Sloan Wilson, American novelist, died on May 25th, aged 83