Top 1200 Rich Person Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

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?

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

You can never become rich unless you like rich people.

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

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

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

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

Charity separates the rich from the poor; aid raises the needy and sets him on the same level with the rich.

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.

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

My wife is always by far the best-dressed person anywhere we go. And remember, we are surrounded by rich people who can afford to buy £20,000 gowns.

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

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".

We've turned the post-war economy that made America prosperous and rich inside out. Somehow most people believed they could get rich by going into debt to borrow assets that were going to rise in price. But you can't get rich, ultimately, by going into debt. In the end the creditors always win.

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

I will stand up for what I believe and for what I have always believed: Every person has a right to be rich in this country and I want to help them get there.

Control in modern times requires more than force, more than law. It requires that a population dangerously concentrated in cities and factorites, whose lives are filled qith cause for rebellion, be taught that all is right as it is. And so, the schools, the churches, the popular literature taught that to be rich was a sign of superiority, to be poor a sign of personal failure, and that the only way upward for a poor person was to climb into the ranks of the rich by extraordinary effort and extraordinary luck.

When I look out [the window] at the big houses on either side of the road, it's obvious we've entered the rich side of town. Poor people don't post signs like NO TRESPASSING, PRIVATE DRIVE, PRIVATE PROPERTY, MONITORED BY CAMERA SURVEILLANCE. I should know because I've been poor my entire life, and the only person I know who ever posted a sign like these is my friend...and he actually stole the sign off a rich guy's yard.

There is not the least cause for worry about financial affairs; every person who wills to do so may rise above want, have all he needs, and become rich.

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

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

"Get Rich or Die Tryin". That's the universal struggle. When I say it it might seem a bit negative but if a working class person says it it means they're determined.

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

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

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

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

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

A very rich person should leave his kids enough to do anything, but not enough to do nothing.

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

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

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

Man was born to be rich, or to inevitably grow rich, by the use of his faculties: by the union of thought with nature.

The last person I'd date is some rich kid who's had everything handed to her on a plate. Give me a normal girl any day.

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

I don't think there is such a thing as an intelligent mega-rich person. For who with a fine mind can look out upon this world and hoard what can nourish a thousand souls.

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.

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

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

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

I would like to be mates with Richard Branson because I've hung out with him and he is just the loveliest person and obviously a very rich guy and has a lot of stuff going on, but he's actually a really, really sound person, and he's really positive and he's got a really good energy, so I'd like to hang out with him a bit more.

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

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

Men are not rich or poor according to what they possess but to what they desire. The only rich man is he that with content enjoys a competence.

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.

I don't know how anyone could vote Republican. It's so obvious that their only interest is keeping the rich rich.

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.

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