The Rich Quotes

The goal of truly rich people is to have massive wealth and abundance.

Rich people believe in themselves. They believe in their value and in their ability to deliver it. Poor people don't. That's why they need "guarantees."

Ay, rail at gaming - 'tis a rich topic, and affords noble declamation. Go, preach against it in the city - you'll find a congregation in every tavern.

In order to live a rich life, everything about who you are must be one, in alignment, and in pure harmony.

Rich white guys. That's the true minority.

If beating yourself up worked you'd be rich, thin, and happy. Try loving yourself instead.

It took me 20 years to learn I couldn't tune too well. And by that time I was too rich to care.

This erosion of the middle class is happening all over the place. The opening of a wider gap between rich and poor is always accompanied by such a process.

Lyrics have to be underwritten. That's why poets generally make poor lyric writers because the language is too rich. You get drowned in it.

Beauty and sadness always go together. Nature thought beauty too rich to go forth Upon the earth without a meet alloy.

Babies don't know who's rich and who's poor. You love 'em and they're happy.

I met so many people after I got rich and famous, and I learned that you can't ultimately trust people unless they were your friends when you were broke.

To ignore the unexpected (even if it were possible) would be to live without opportunity, spontaneity, and the rich moments of which "life" is made.

Britain needs a simpler tax system which is simple to understand, where there are no loop-holes, where the very rich do not avoid tax by employing expensive accountants

Solitude is rich but seldom hilarious.

Family photos, pictures of groups, those are truely wonderful. And they are just as good as the old masters, just as rich and just as beautifully composed (what does that mean anyway).

He is rich enough who does not want bread.

May I consider the wise man rich, and may I have such wealth as only the self-restrained man can bear or endure.

Odd, isn't it, that a thief and a vagabond should repent, when so many who are rich and secure remain hard and frivolous, and without fruit for God or man?

The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.

The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.

Classic music will always come across better on the ice because skating has such a rich history, rooted in tradition.

The rich are not born sceptical or cynical. They are made that way by events, circumstances.

The world is so great and rich, and life so full of variety, that you can never lack occasions for poems.

Life is always rich and steady time when you are waiting for something to happen or to hatch.

Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.

In fame's temple there is always a niche to be found for rich dunces, importunate scoundrels, or successful butchers of the human race.

I'm not a rich man, and Greg Lake is certainly not. I don't know how he can survive. I don't know how he can be that suicidal. But having said that, I'd love to be there to help Greg.

You can be rich and not be famous. You can be famous and not be rich. But to be rich and famous is a special category all by itself.

Anytime I hear that somebody's really rich, the first question is, 'Do you do anything with it? Or do you, like, chill? You just sit on it?'

I thought of America as this crazy, happy, exciting place where everybody's rich and there's stuff everywhere. Compared to Pakistan, it's not untrue.

Don't knock the rich. When did a poor person give you a job?

Those fighting for free enterprise and free competition do not defend the interests of those rich today. They want a free hand left to unknown men who will be the entrepreneurs of tomorrow.

I will stand up for what I believe and for what I have always believed: Every person has a right to be rich in this country and I want to help them get there.

I never met a rich man who was happy, but I have only very occasionally met a poor man who did not want to become a rich man.

How to get rich ... whenever I meet people, that's usually what they want to know from me. You ask a banker how he makes bread. You ask a billionaire how he makes money.

Can a man be poor if he is free from want, if he does not covet the belongings of others, if he is rich in the possession of God? Rather, he is poor who possesses much but still craves for more.

Nature herself makes the wise man rich.

I wish I were either rich enough or poor enough to do a lot of things that are impossible in my present comfortable circumstances.

Everything made by man may be destroyed by man; there are no ineffaceable characters except those engraved by nature; and nature makes neither princes nor rich men nor great lords.

If we are so rich, why aren't we happy?

I was poor. When you're poor you work, and when you're rich you expect somebody to hand it to you. So I think being reasonably poor is very good for people.

Those who the gods would make rich and famous on TV, they first drive mad.

To be able to give away riches is mandatory if you wish to possess them. This is the only way that you will be truly rich.

Neglecting to broaden their view has kept some people doing one thing all their lives.

Some musicians are not great technicians, but they give you a rich point of view.

There are many people in South Africa who are rich and who can share those riches with those not so fortunate who have not been able to conquer poverty.

The real alternative to power of the rich is not power of the poor. It's just plain power.

It's interesting to be an adult and to have that level of ignorance about something, because the nice part about is you get that discovery. The learning curve is so rich and steep.

The people no longer seek consolation in art. But the refined people, the rich, the idlers seek the new, the extraordinary, the extravagant, the scandalous.