Top 1200 Rich Dad Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

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

I don't think that the rich should be attacked. There's nothing wrong in being rich.

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

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

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

I was obsessed with my dad, and my dad would refuse to go to church with us on Sundays because football was on. So I thought to myself, how could I spend more time with my dad? I started watching football with him every Sunday, and it was just something I fell in love with.

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

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.

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.

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

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".

I remember I used to think my dad was really cool working at a factory. He used to make buttons. I used to brag, 'This button here, My dad made it.' There was this sense of pride. It's knowing your dad is doing something cool.

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

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.

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

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

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

Interesting thing about being rich is once you pay your taxes, you're still rich.

Calvin: Dad where do babies come from? Dad: Well Calvin, you simply go to Sears, buy the kit and follow the assembly instructions. Calvin: I came from Sears? Dad: No you were a blue-light special at K-Mart - almost as good and a lot cheaper!

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

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

My dad left his psychology hat at the door and put his dad hat on when he came into the house. It's amazing having my dad have that awesome job. My mother was a model back in the day. I've seen the pictures. My mother's beautiful.

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

We were not rich by any means. My dad was a plasterer and worked long hours - I hardly ever saw him when I was growing up. He had always gone to work before I woke up, and usually, I would be in bed before he came home.

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.

My mom and dad got divorced, so it was one of those things where Sundays I'd go to Dad's apartment, and this was, say, 1970-whatever, and it had a pool table on the top floor in a very traditional kind of divorced-dad apartment building.

I was rich before I had any money. Being rich has nothing to do with anything monetary.

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

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

I took the first James Kelman novel, 'The Bus Conductor Hines', home to my dad. I thought, 'My dad will like this; it's written in Scots.' But my dad said: 'I can't read that.' He was reading James Bond and John le Carre. That was part of what attracted me to crime - the idea of getting a wide audience.

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

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

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

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

Barney's Dad was really bad so Barney hatched a plan when his dad said "Eat your peas." Barney shouted no and ran Barney tricked his mean old dad and locked him in the cellar Barney's Mom never found out where he'd gone, Cause Barney didn't tell her. There his dad spent his life eating mice and gruel With every bite for fifty years he was sorry he'd been cruel

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.

When I was a small child we were allowed to wait up until midnight on 31 December. Then as the TV chimed, Dad would run to the front door and open it, welcoming the New Year air. This is the kind of entertainment you make in poor families, and cry to your therapist about when you're rich.

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

You see another side of Draco when he's with his dad. When Draco is with his dad, he doesn't say anything. He keeps his mouth shut. He's sort of bullied by his dad, so he acts very different.

I always want to say to people who want to be rich and famous: 'try being rich first'. See if that doesn't cover most of it. There's not much downside to being rich, other than paying taxes and having your relatives ask you for money. But when you become famous, you end up with a 24-hour job.

The Gruden-McVay relationship goes all the way back to 1970. John McVay and my dad are best of friends. My dad continued to work with McVay as a 49er. When John McVay became the general manager, he hired my dad to be one of his scouts.

I'm the female version of my dad. He builds decks, he builds all types of chairs, my dad is really creative and really hands-on and so I really learned that from my dad.

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.

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.

A car crossed two lanes of traffic, flipped, and landed on my dad's car. I don't blame cars. My dad loved cars. I don't have many memories of my dad. The love of cars is all I have of him, really.

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

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

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

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.

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?

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

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.

You can never become rich unless you like rich people.

My dad died in May of '97. The effects of his death immediately were not all that hard, but a year or two later it hit, when my job as Dad was sort of done and I was sending my kids to college. And somehow, the emotional intensity of that event mixed with the loss of my own dad, was kind of upsetting.

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

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

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

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