Rich Quotes

Then she added in a sort of childish delight: 'We'll be poor, won't we? Like people in books. And I'll be an orphan and utterly free. Free and poor! What fun!' She stopped and raised her lips to him in a delighted kiss.'It's impossible to be both together,' said John grimly. 'People have found that out. And I should choose to be free as preferable of the two...

Getting through life without a lot of money, possessions, and/or friends is admirable, especially if it is by choice.

There is today a division of labor between the elite and the masses. In medieval Europe aristocrats spent their money carelessly on extravagant luxuries whereas peasants lived frugally minding every penny. Today the tables have turned. The rich take great care managing their assets and investments, while the less well-heeled go into debt buying cars and televisions they don't really need.

PhD made me poorer, without money, but richer in thoughts.

I take from the poor and give to the rich. They just happen to be the same individuals. Poor and stupid before they learn from me and pay with their time and money, but rich and successful after they do. The truly miserable, however, don't know how poor they are, and I want nothing from them.

Turn thy crown upside down! You need to feel how it is to kneel as those less fortunate than your noble deal.

The rich can afford to be progressive. Poor people have reason to be afraid of the future.

We may not have the choice to be rich or comfortable, but whatever happens; we do always have the choice to be an educated person.

It's never better to make somebody poorer, even if they're rich.

Don't you ever mind," she asked suddenly, "not being rich enough to buy all the books you want?

It doesn't matter who you are or where you come from or what you look like or who you love. It doesn't matter whether you're black or white or Hispanic or Asian or Native American or young or old or rich or poor, able, disabled, gay or straight, you can make it here in America if you're willing to try.

You need to wake yourself up and take a grab at life. No one is going to hand it to you.

Only poor people are corrupt. If you don't believe me, just go and ask a rich person.

This is my time, I don't own anyone but every one wants to get owned by me

Life punishes those who have things in abundance by making them worry about petty things like: what to wear, or, which car to drive.

Rich folk don't try so hard

Love is worth so much more than money. There are so many people who are filthy rich, but have nobody to genuinely love them. Unconditional love is priceless. If you have someone who really loves you for your heart, without any conditions, then you are truly one of the wealthiest people in the world.

But that was the problem with New York: No matter how succesful you thought you were, there was always someone who was richer, more successful, more famous.. The idea of it was sometimes enough to make you want to give up.

The streets are a poor kid’s PlayStation™

Gatsby's self-willed metamorphosis from farm boy to prince is many ways identical to my father's. Like Gatsby, my father fueled this transformation with the "colossal vitality of his illusion". Unlike Gatsby he did this on a school teacher's salary.

And what I thought most about was luxury. I had never realised before that it is more than just having things; it makes the very air feel different. And I felt different, breathing the air: relaxed, lazy, still sad but with the edge taken off the sadness. Perhaps the effect wears off in time, or perhaps you don't notice it if you are born to it, but it does seem to me that the climate of richness must always be a little dulling to the senses. Perhaps it takes the edge off joy as well as off sorrow.

The middle class were invented to give the poor hope; the poor, to make the rich feel special; the rich, to humble the middle class.

The real rich people doesn't have bank accounts, they have treasures.

That was the wonderful thing about New York: Years of bad blood could be wiped out with a single gesture of friendliness.

t wait until you become rich to help somebody, kindness doesn't always require money

Some do not want to create rich experiences for others, others lack the ability to do so, but most just want to experience being rich, with little to no other experience.

Some people are just different, even in the same family.

The second most dangerous thing about money is that it leaves most of the people who have a lot of it with the unshakable belief that they are intelligent and well informed. The most dangerous thing about it is that it leaves most of the people who do not have a lot of money with the very same belief.

It was a rich place: as rich as plumcake.

the greatest trick of kings is to fool the poor into thinking we have common cause with the rich simply because we live on the same bog. Then the poor get their heads split open in the battles they fight so the rich can keep their wine cellars well stocked.

When you see your feet with no footwear, also see those with no feet.

You must lay aside your greed; have no unworthy motive in your desire to become rich and powerful. It is legitimate and right to desire riches, if you want them for the sake of your soul, but not if you desire them for the lists of the flesh.

Words rich in meaning can be cheap in sound effects.

There are many pleasant fictions of the law in constant operation, but there is not one so pleasant or practically humorous as that which supposes every man to be of equal value in its impartial eye, and the benefits of all laws to be equally attainable by all men, without the smallest reference to the furniture of their pockets.

Next to God, Family is the best thing.

Maybe that was what millions could do-- nail a satisfied smirk to one's face.

Do not spend all your strength to make money.

I Wanna Be Rich Enough to Realize That I Can't Buy Happiness.

Real women don't love the richest guy in the world they love the guy who can make their world the richest.

If you want to get rich on the outside, then become rich on the inside first. You will reap on the outside what you sow on the inside.

The biggest challenge after success is shutting up about it.

When you get to be as old and as rich as I am, it’s hard to meet people.

Having extreme physical beauty presented a problem similar to being rich: it was difficult to know if people loved you for the person you were inside.

In general, poor is polite and rich is rude.

Some people will insult your intelligence by suddenly being nice or nicer to you once you make it … or they think you have.

The poor manufacture the engines of their own destruction, but it's the rich who sell them.

I don't want to be rich yet live a life of unhappiness, but I also don't want to be poor because I have never seen happiness in poverty.

Here is the problem: Poor Americans consume too little healthcare, especially preventive healthcare. Other Americans—often rich Americans—consume too much healthcare, often unwisely, and sometimes to their detriment. The American healthcare system combines famine with gluttony.

Time is a valuable wealth.

Man with his new powers became rich like Midas but all that he touched had gone dead and cold.

It's easier for a rich man to ride that camel through the eye of a needle directly into the Kingdom of Heaven, than for some of us to give up our cell phone.

When rich, being poor seems *adventurous.*

Be wise enough to forgive but don't be foolish enough to trust again.

The problem is that rich are getting richer by not giving and poor and getting poorer by not receiving.

So this is how the rich bleed--elegantly.

Respect everybody you meet either Rich or Poor | Cute or Ugly | Locally or Internationally | Famous or Infamous.. afterall we're all sand

Some steal, earn a lot of money, but lose their honour and become very poor; some work, earn a little money, but gain a good honour and become very rich!

Hammacher Schlemmer is selling a shelter,worthy of Kubla Khan's Xanadu dome;Plushy and swanky, with posh hanky pankythat affluent Yankees can really callhome.Hammacher Schlemmer is selling a shelter,a push-button palace, fluorescent repose;Electric devices for facing a crisiswith frozen fruit ices and cinema shows.Hammacher Schlemmer is selling a shelterall chromium kitchens and rubber-tiled dorms;With waterproof portals to echo the chortlesof weatherproof mortals in hydrogen storms.What a great come-to-glory emporium!To enjoy a deluxe moratorium,Where nuclear heat can beguile the elitein a creme-de-la-creme crematorium.

Conservatives say if you don't give the rich more money, they will lose their incentive to invest. As for the poor, they tell us they've lost all incentive because we've given them too much money.

It is no exaggeration to say that the rich own most of what there is that is not nailed down.