Top 1200 Being Rich Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

To people who want to be rich and famous, I'd say, "Get rich first and see if that doesn't cover it."

People are threatened by me. Rich white, rich blacks, it doesn't matter.

The rich are becoming richer, and the gap between the rich and the poor is getting bigger.

I'm from where the real hustlers pile dough, the home of Rich Rich Porter, Azie, Alpo.

It is more pitiable once to have been rich than not to be rich now.

One bulls-eye and you're rich and famous. The rich get more famous and the famous get rich. You're the talk of the town....The sense of so much depending on success is very hard to ignore, perhaps impossible. It leads to disproportionate anxiety and disproportionate relief or disappointment.

There wasn't a rich father or rich family that paid for everything that I have right now, so I worked my way.

Africa is rich, and why are we poor then if our continent is rich. It is not right.

I wrote without much effort; for I was rich, and the rich are always respectable, whatever be their style of writing.

I think that most Americans don't resent people for getting rich. They want to get rich themselves.

Being rich and famous isn't all happiness and at times the pressures have got to me.

I have known lots of millionaires who were not happy men; they had not got all they wanted and therefore had failed to find success in life. A Singalese proverb says: "He who is happy is rich, but it does not follow that he who is rich is happy." The really rich man is the man who has fewest wants.

You need not apologize for being brilliant, talented, gorgeous, rich, or smart.

I was born rich. Not in tangible things... but rich in the parents I had.

He is only rich who owns the day. There is no king, rich man, fairy, or demon who possesses such power as that.

If you're living hand-to-mouth, and still buying into the con that the big threats to America are socialized medicine, Mexican immigrants and tax increases, then you're not being kept down by the rich. You're being kept down by you.

One basic myth is that rich people get wealthy by earning income. But that's not how most get rich. Most of the gains of the rich people since 1945 have been "capital gains".

First I was rich, then I was poor, now I am rich, again and I want to stay that way.

Consumerism is, quite precisely, the consuming of life by the things consumed. It is living in a manner that is measured by having rather than being... and consumerism is hardly the sin of the rich. The poor, driven by discontent and envy, may be as consumed by what they do not have as the rich are consumed by what they do have. The question is not, certainly not most importantly, a question about economics. It is first and foremost a cultural and moral problem requiring a cultural and moral remedy.

The poor have the same basic pleasures as the rich, and the rich will always resent it.

The rich don't win elections. They support the money, but what percentage of America are rich? What is it, 2 percent? But they all have one vote.

The prospect of getting rich is highly motivating, and few people get rich without taking a gamble.

We are rapidly moving toward a nation of the super-rich, by the super-rich and for the super-rich

The sole purpose of being rich is to give away money.

It's not my cause in life to be filthy rich. Being comfortable is enough.

You get rich through luck. You get rich through crime. You get rich through fulfilling the needs of another. You can be as greedy as you like. If you can’t do one of those three things, you ain’t going to get any money.

Ninety-eight out of 100 of the rich men in America are honest. That is why they are rich.

Whatever qualities the rich may have, they can be acquired by anyone with the tenacity to become rich.

Nature would not appear so rich, the profusion so rich, if we knew a use for everything.

One can never be too rich or too thin' is an aphorism attributed to the Duchess of Windsor. Being both rich and thin is a difficult enterprise, indeed almost unprecedented as an ideal. Into the paradoxical gap between the capacity to spend money and the need to eat less steps a brilliant solution: 'light' food. In buying 'light' food we can pay more for what costs less to produce in the first place.

I'm not rich and maybe I'll never be rich. Money is useful - yes - but I don't worship it.

for someone such as myself, who is kind of feckless and immature, it's better to have rich friends than to be rich yourself, because then you have wealth without the responsibility. You get to go to their houses, and you get acquainted with a level of furniture that you cannot provide for yourself. Furniture, I think is the most important attribute of rich people.

How far, O rich, do you extend your senseless avarice? Do you intend to be the sole inhabitants of the earth? Why do you drive out the fellow sharers of nature, and claim it all for yourselves? The earth was made for all, rich and poor, in common. Why do you rich claim it as your exclusive right?

There is no get-rich-quick scheme equal to a poor girl marrying a rich man.

Now, for some of you it doesn't matter. You were born rich and you're going to stay rich. But here's my advice to the rest of you: Take dead aim on the rich boys. Get them in the crosshairs and take them down. Just remember, they can buy anything but they can't buy backbone. Don't let them forget it. Thank you.

Let us teach our people again to be proud that they are Filipinos. Let us teach them to realize anew that being a Filipino means having as rich and noble a heritage of language, culture, patriotism and heroic deeds as any nation on earth. Let us teach a steadfast faith in Divine Providence, a stable family institution, the unhampered enjoyment of civil liberties, the advantages of constitutional government, the potentials of a rich and spacious land.

The problem with beauty is that it's like being born rich and getting poorer.

I don't have any expectations as an actor and being rich and famous is not my driving force.

We're so absorbed in the effort to get rich, we no longer recognize when we are rich.

Being rich and miserable has got to be better than poor and unhappy.

You can never become rich unless you like rich people.

Among all the emotions, the rich have the least talent for love. It is possible to love one's dog, dress or duck-shooting hat, but a human being presents a more difficult problem. The rich might wish to experience feelings of affection, but it is almost impossible to chip away the enamel of their narcissism. They take up all the space in all the mirrors in the house. Their children, who represent the most present and therefore the most annoying claim on their attention, usually receive the brunt of their irritation.

Are you willing to work sixteen hours a day? Rich people are. Are you willing to work seven days a week and five up most of your weekends? Rich people are. Are you willing to sacrifice seeing your family, your friends, and give up your recreations and hobbies? Rich people are. Are you willing to risk all your time, energy and start-up capital with no guarantee of returns? Rich people are.

It doesn't matter how rich you are - you know when you're being ripped off.

Being a smart shopper is the first step to getting rich.

I don't care what anyone says. Being rich is a good thing.

I never met a poor person who wanted to soak the rich; they want to get rich.

To be rich you have to know what it is to be poor. Getting financially literate is part of the price you have to pay to become rich

It's easier to get rich than it is to explain not getting rich.

Unfortunately, in a recession, the people who suffer the most aren't the rich, but the wanna-be rich and the poor.

Your life will be rich for others only as it is rich for you.

I don't have any expectations as an actor, and being rich and famous is not my driving force.

Do we carry rich people on our flights? Yes, I flew on one this morning and I'm very rich.

The Democrats tell all the poor people and all of the middle class that they're only where they are 'cause the rich have cheated them, exploited them, or stolen all their money. The way they're gonna make it equal is to take from those people who have just won life's lottery, the premise being that the poor and the rich and the middle class are gonna get the money.

I really believe Slipknot's rich with history and rich with things.

You get rich through luck. You get rich through crime. You get rich through fulfilling the needs of another. You can be as greedy as you like. If you can't do one of those three things, you ain't going to get any money.

The difference between the rich and the poor is that the rich have learned to recognize the value of their thoughts.

Ah, if the rich were rich as the poor fancy riches.

If you want to be rich the rule of thumb is to teach others how to be rich.

We all either work for rich people or we sell stuff to rich people, so just punishing rich people is as bad for the economy as punishing anyone. Let's not punish anyone.