The Rich Quotes

For most people, art is only valuable if other people say it is; and artists are only worthwhile if they are either rich and famous, or dead.

There are not enough rich and powerful people to consume the whole world; for that, the rich and powerful need the help of countless ordinary people.

How is the government going to get the extra taxes? Out of the rich, or just out of the poor, as usual?

People think that because they've seen your name in print, you're rich. I assume that. But all it means is that there was some intrepid interviewer who bothered to give you a call.

High premiums are being paid today not particularly for quality service or long-term building of a business but rather for making money quickly, getting rich, and getting out. And that's wrong.

The grave is Heaven's golden gate, And rich and poor around it wait; O Shepherdess of England's fold, Behold this gate of pearl and gold!

Do we change every time we have a new encounter? Are we endlessly mutable? I think these are fascinating questions: it's a rich vein to tap, and I don't think I have exhausted it fully yet.

The poor should learn what has always been the motto of the rich: "What's mine is mine and what is yours if I can I steal it."

The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.

The middle class has just fallen further and further behind the rich.

Justice is justly represented blind, because she sees no difference in the parties concerned. She has but one scale and weight, for rich and poor, great and small.

[Senators John Kerry & John Edwards] have risen high in Democratic polls with a brand of class resentment and soak-the-rich rhetoric rooted in the old-fashioned liberalism of Ted Kennedy.

Thou art most rich, being poor; Most choice, forsaken; and most lov'd, despis'd! Thee and thy virtues here I seize upon.

All thy vexations Were but my trials of thy love, and thou Hast strangely stood the test; here, afore heaven, I ratify this my rich gift.

Our purses shall be proud, our garments poor; for 'tis the mind that makes the body rich

Were it good To set the exact wealth of all our states All at one cast? to set so rich a main On the nice hazard of one doubtful hour? It were not good.

Love all. Trust a few. Do wrong to none. This above all: to thine own self be true. No legacy is so rich as honesty. Brevity is the soul of wit

To have seen much and to have nothing is to have rich eyes and poor hands.

A rich dress adds but little to the beauty of a person. It may possibly create a deference, but that is rather an enemy to love.

If you are rich, you have lovely cars, and jars full of flowers, and books in rows, and a wireless, and the best sort of gramophone and meringues for supper.

Actors do these really gross, gun-'em-down movies, and I always wonder why. They're not good movies. And it's like, "Why are you doing them? Aren't you rich enough?"

It was always easy for me. I was born very rich and lucky.

It's okay to be eccentric if you're rich; otherwise you're just crazy.

Rich people read their bills. Poor people dread theirs.

I will tell you the secret to getting rich on Wall Street. You try to be greedy when others are fearful. And you try to be fearful when others are greedy.

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are

The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does.

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

The answer to the prayer of a rich man is in the hands of the poor.

Money gives you permission to just walk away from everything that isn't pretty and perfect. You can't put up with anything less than lovely. You spend your life running, avoiding, escaping.

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.

As a rich man, when you mock the poor you fail the test of wealth.

The Artist, " an ancient sage had once said, "is always sitting on the doorsteps of the rich.

The mass of the rich and the poor are differentiated by their incomes and nothing else, and the average millionaire is only the average dishwasher dressed in a new suit.

Failure is a trickster with a keen sense of irony and cunning. It takes great delight in tripping one when success is almost within reach

Give ordinary folk the chance to buy the same things as rich people.

We learned many years ago that the rich may have money, but the poor have time.

When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.

Content makes poor men rich discontent makes rich men poor.

A lot of people spend so much time trying to look rich, that they forget that the plan is to get rich.

Leaders will love to be poor and see their people rich, than to be rich and see their people poor. This is their mission.

Every time the rich ignore the poor, the rich become poorer! Poorest is the person who has all the means to help others but chooses not to!

Rich just needs a more expensive shoe, but poor just needs a shoe!

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.

You are not rich until you have a rich heart.

A rich man is not a man without problems but a man whose faith has conquered the problems even when it's there.

Live like Jesus, pray like Jesus, love like Jesus, serve like Jesus but don't hand yourself over to the enemy like Him.

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

And then one day you realise that if you want to be rich, you'd have to give away almost everything you own.

Entrepreneurs don't have weekends or birthdays or holidays. Every day is my weekend, my birthday, my holiday. OR, every day is my work day. Mostly it's a choice.