The Rich Quotes

I had a couple of million dollars' worth of... stock once. And now it's not worth much more than wallpaper. I guess I just wasn't born to be rich.

Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you. I always was a rich person because money's not related to happiness.

If some beggar steals a bridle he'll be hung by a man who's stolen a horse. There's no surer justice in the world than that which makes the rich thief hang the poor one.

It costs a lot of money to be rich.

I don't believe that there is fair enough understanding of either our status as women or the total context of our lives, which is very rich and multi-faceted.

It's a good thing to be rich and a good thing to be strong, but it is a better thing to be beloved of many friends.

Pink Floyd was music for rich college kids, and we were the exact f**king opposite of that.

Frank Sinatra taught me how to do him. It took me seven years to master him. He would tell me, tap your foot, Rich, and don't forget to grasp your sleeve.

Rich people are so eccentric, and I don't think people really realize. Especially by the turn of the century, they were living like rappers.

Traditional investment vehicles such as IRAs, CDs, stocks and bonds do have their place, but for the rich, they are used more as temporary storage facilities rather than life-long homes.

The last thing that people want to hear is the plain simple fact that the rich think differently [about money] than the poor ... They have what I call a wealthy mindset.

Celebrities are nowhere as rich as some people think they are.

Crassus was in the habit of maintaining that nobody should be called rich who was not able to maintain an army on his income.

I have been rich, and I have been broke. Some of it is my fault for choosing bad management and making bad investments. But that is life - we all take risks.

You know, I'm blessed. 'Blessed' is a better way of saying 'rich.'

If you're a rich guy, the best thing you can do is demand tax increases on the rich. That way the poor guy will leave you alone. The middle class and the poor will leave you alone.

The rich man is everywhere expected and at home.

If one had taken what is necessary to cover one's needs and had left the rest to those who are in need, no one would be rich, no one would be poor, no one would be in need.

Given a rich environment, learning becomes like the air—it’s in and around us.

If you live according to nature, you never will be poor; if according to the world's caprice, you will never be rich.

Listening to your internal guidance system will lead to a rich, fulfilled, happy life. That's been my experience... and millions of folks can attest to it in their own lives as well.

The rich is the one that rules over those of little means, and the borrower is servant to the man doing the lending.

In always wanting to be comfortable, you become lazy. In always wanting perfection, you become angry. In always wanting to be rich, you become greedy.

Great ladies are no more spiteful than the average rich woman; but one acquires in their society a greater susceptibility, and feels more profoundly andmore irremediably, their unpleasant remarks.

Each life reverberates in every other life. Whether or not we acknowledge it, we are connected, woven together in our needs and desires, rich and poor, men and women alike.

Think more like the rich if you want to create more wealth.

Rich people expect to succeed.

Somebody will be upset and say I got rich and deserted my female people; No offense, but the only black woman I ever loved is my mama.

Large enterprises make the few rich, but the majority prosper only through the carefulness and detail of thrift.

But knowledge to their eyes her ample page Rich with the spoils of time did ne'er unroll; Chill Penury repressed their noble rage, And froze the genial current of the soul.

The rich support the poor primarily via taxes.

The poor folks hate the rich folks, and the rich folks hate the poor folks. All of my folks hate all of your folks, it's American as apple pie.

I don't mean I'd mind being rich and famous. That's very much on my schedule and someday I'll try to get around to it.

Nature has gifted this rich biological diversity to us. We will not allow it to become the monopoly of a handful of corporations. We will keep it as the basis of our wealth and our sustenance.

The ocean is a place of skin, rich outer membranes hiding thick juicy insides, laden with the soup of being.

The rich's paradise was created by the poor's hell.

My mom said, "What I want is a happy kid, not a rich kid. That's what I root for." She saw how much joy I got from playing music, and those years were leaner than lean!

I don't have a lot of money. I get some from Mad Men. But I don't think I'm rich.

How rich art is, if one can only remember what one has seen, one is never empty of thoughts or truly lonely, never alone.

Getting rich isn't about doing certain things. It's about doing things in the certain way!

A man with a million dollars can be as happy nowadays as though he were rich.

The theater is a great equalizer: it is the only place where the poor can look down on the rich.

For those that love the world serve it in action, Grow rich, popular, and full of influence; And should they paint or write still is it action, The struggle of the fly in marmalade.

Poverty, labor, and calamity are not without their luxuries, which the rich, the indolent, and the fortunate in vain seek for.

The rich man can afford to be happy and wise; the poor man is wiser still, for he understands sadness.

It is the mind that makes the body rich; and as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, so honor peereth in the meanest habit.

Tis the mind that makes the body rich.

If the nation is rich but people are poor, the country cannot be strong, and society will be unstable.

Rich people have the potential to reach a point where they see money as the source of their safety and security.

Decades of Saddam’s rule made what could have been a fairly rich country, due to its oil reserves, into a very poor one.