Top 1200 Being Rich Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

Not the children of the rich or of the powerful only, but of all alike, boys and girls, both noble and ignoble, rich and poor, in all cities and towns, villages and hamlets, should be sent to school

I do not believe that one can become rich without being a shark; a sensitive man will never amass wealth.

Doing more and more with less and less is one form of being generous. In fact, the easiest way to become rich is by being generous.

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

The gap between the rich and the poor cannot keep growing without nothing being done about it.

The rich are not very nice. That's why they're rich.

I think that not being all that overwhelmed by good reviews is a luxury. I'm like a rich person who says he doesn't care about money.

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.

When someone becomes successful or rich and famous, people perceive that person as being different. But I'm the same guy I've always been.

Man is a simple being, and however rich, varied, and unfathomable he may be, the cycle of his situations is soon run through.

We have no paupers ... The great mass of our [United States] population is of laborers; our rich, who can live without labor, either manual or professional, being few, and of moderate wealth. Most of the laboring class possess property, cultivate their own lands, have families, and from the demand for their labor are enabled to exact from the rich and the competent such prices as enable them to be fed abundantly, clothed above mere decency, to labor moderately and raise their families. ... Can any condition of society be more desirable than this?

If I can go through life free and rich, I shall not cry because my neighbor, equally free, is richer. Liberty will ultimately make all men rich; it will not make all men equally rich.

There are those who say that children make a rich man poor. No, they have it backward. Children make a poor man rich. A rich man can't take his riches to heaven, but I'm taking my children

You can't stand to see your neighbor getting rich. You know you're smarter than he is and he's doing these things and he's getting rich.

I was born with no money. So when people talk about Bow Wow being rich his whole life, I don't know where they get that.

How often the rich like to play at being poor. A rather nasty game, I've always thought.

When I see the mostly young people of Occupy Wall Street - a mixture of the bored, the nihilistic, the seekers of excitement, the left-wing true believers, the confused idealists and those hoping to engage in violence - railing against the rich capitalists on Wall Street, I get worried. Because the hatred they express toward the rich is similar to that expressed against the rich by Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot. Of course, these people are not comparable to those killers. But class hatred must lead to bad things. That is why President Obama is playing with fire with his attacks on the rich.

Some of the highest vibratory places one can visit have become very expensive. They are the domains of the rich. The rich figured out a long time ago that certain neighborhoods have more power.

I grew up in Northern Ireland, in the middle of nowhere, and when you are poor, you are really poor. And when you are rich, you are very rich. This is not a new phenomenon.

One of those things I never exactly cared for was that phobia of appearing to be rich. To become rich is a natural thing, a result of your work, that which you've done.

Artistic credentials are au courant in the important business of being seen as cultured, elegant and, of course, stupendously rich.

In the annals of the rich and miserable, Christina Onassis stands out, if only because she was so rich and so miserable.

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

The great thing about being rich is, you can embrace practices that kill the poor - that's what socialism does.

Being rich would be disastrous for me as a writer. I have always needed to write to pay the bills.

It's better to have a rich soul than to be rich.

Being rich and famous has never been my goal at all. I love to act and I want to be able to do really great parts.

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.

Rich people are the experimental ground for every new development. The nature of progress is that what begins as a luxury for the rich becomes a necessity for the poor as it's developed and passed on.

Luxury either comes of riches or makes them necessary; it corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by covetousness.

Being able to work on a film like 'Crazy Rich Asians' as your first role is phenomenal.

That is the power of the Eucharist. At the communion table you have rich and poor together in the early church and they were being challenged.

The rich landlord is he who collects with sternness, who accepts no excuse, and will have his own. There are moments of irritation and of real bitterness against him, but there is still admiration, because he is rich and successful.

You is born lucky, and it's better to be born lucky than born rich, cause if you is lucky you can git rich, but if you is born rich and you ain't lucky you is liables to lose all you got.

Celebrity doesn't have anything to do with art or craft. It's about being rich and thinking that you're better than everybody else.

When I found out my mother wanted me to marry a rich man, I instantly didn't want any rich man.

When states and cities and our country say we're going to tax the rich - and that word 'rich' or 'wealthy' doesn't sound like it comes from success of hard work, but from something negative - I resent it.

Being from Miami, you're used to the fact that your home is a vacation spot. But that's what makes Miami one of the best places in the world. We're so rich in different cultures, being so close to Haiti, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico, and then you've got people who travel from all over the world just to come visit.

I am the one rich thing that morn Leaves for the ardent noon to win; Grasp me not, I have a thorn, But bend and take my being in.

You campaigned against rich people and you got enough envy whipped up in the country and you're gonna get 'em. You're gonna stick it to those rich people. But guess what? You may not get anymore revenue. You may not get anymore economic growth. But you can say, 'I stuck it to the rich people.'

Finland is a rich country. What have they got? They got Nokia phones and plywood. How'd they get so rich? Because they're free.

Chile is not a rich country in terms of gas, or oil or coal, but we are extremely rich in terms of the energies of the future.

The rich are richer, and the poor are poorer, in the city than elsewhere; and, as a rule, the greater are the riches of the rich and the poverty of the poor.

Rich colors are typical of a rich nature.

No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or 'get rich' in business by being a conformist.

These people seemed so enwrapped in snobbishness and the glory of being rich that they had no art sense whatever.

I said I didn't think it would be a collectivist state so much as a wilderness in which most people lived hand to mouth, and the rich would live like princes - better than the rich had ever lived, except that their lives would constantly be in danger from the hungry predatory poor. All the technology would serve the rich, but they would need it for their own protection and to assure their continued prosperity.

In my experience, getting rich takes focus, courage, knowledge, expertise, 100 percent of your effort, a never-give-up attitude and of course a rich mind-set.

In Baby You're A Rich Man the point was, stop moaning, you're a rich man and we're all rich, heh heh, baby!

The "trickle-down" theory: the principle that the poor, who must subsist on table scraps dropped by the rich, can best be served by giving the rich bigger meals.

Rich people admire other rich and successful people. Poor people resent rich and successful people.

When I was growing up, I don't remember being told that America was created so that everyone could get rich. I remember being told it was about opportunity and the pursuit of happiness. Not happiness itself, but the pursuit.

Far from being a “luxury for the rich,” organic farming may turn out to be a necessity not just for the poor, but for everyone.

O.J. Simpson existed in a bubble. So when Harry Edwards approached him about being involved in the Olympic Project for Human Rights, O.J.'s response was, famously, "I'm not black - I'm O.J." O.J. had ambitions to be famous, rich and liked by everyone, and I think he understood that being political and militant as a black athlete was not a way to engender universal love.

The rich and powerful want to believe in their right to be rich and powerful, so they justify it by saying they are inherently superior to the poor and lowly.

Poor and content is rich, and rich enough.

The fact that I get to play a queer Filipino on television and another queer character in 'Crazy Rich Asians' is huge. I never thought I'd have a career being myself. I always thought that being an actor in Hollywood meant that I would have to put that side of me on the back burner.

Our beliefs in a rich future life are of little importance unless we coin them into a rich present life.

You might not make it to the top, but if you are doing what you love, there is much more happiness there than being rich or famous.

Most men with nothing would rather protect the possibility of becoming rich than face the reality of being poor.