Top 1200 Rich Person Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

Bin Laden was born filthy rich and died in a rich man's house, which he had painstakingly built to the highest specifications.

There is none to tell the rich to go on striving, for a rich man makes the law that hallows and hollows his own life.

You can't be rich unless everyone else agrees that you're rich.

We [US] are the biggest per person, by a substantial amount, greenhouse emitters, and we give the most foreign aid, not per person but in absolute. This is another issue where hopefully we will take a long-term approach which, even though we sometimes have a hard time doing that, it's easier for us, as a rich country with this kind of scientific depth, than it is for the poor countries who will suffer the problems.

Ted is smart and good-looking, but he doesn't use it to good effect, like a rich person that never gives to charity.

Modernity needs to understand that being rich and becoming rich are not mathematically, personally, socially, and ethically the same thing.

My family got all over me because they said Bush is only for the rich people. Then I reminded them, 'Hey, I'm rich'.

If one wishes to become rich they must appear rich.

Rich colors are typical of a rich nature.

Poor and content is rich, and rich enough.

When I was a young man, an individual with one million dollars was very rich. Anyone with a few millions more was considered richer than rich.

You can tax the rich all you want. The problem is there aren't enough of the rich.

It is essential that you realize that you are nothing in yourself. If you are rich and satisfied, you cannot receive anything from God. It is frightful to meet that spirit in a person. It totally hinders all spiritual growth and development.

Draco's not really a bully. He's not exactly the biggest, strongest guy in the world. He's more a rich, snobby person. He thinks of himself as really cool.

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

There are many kinds of richness, and the man who is rich because of money is the lowest as far as the categories of richness are concerned. Let me say it in this way: the man of wealth is the poorest rich man. Looked at from the side of the poor, he is the richest poor man. Looked at from the side of a creative artist, of a dancer, of a musician, of a scientist, he is the poorest rich man. And as far as the world of ultimate awakening is concerned he cannot even be called rich.

I felt like I couldn't meet a single rich person. Regardless of where I live, they don't want to talk to me. I threw a barbecue and invited the whole neighborhood, and nobody showed up.

As long as there's anybody that's poor or middle class, there will not be satisfaction that there are rich people. Not 'til we get rid of all the rich can we say we have finished the job.

Given one has before oneself a strong, healthy, youth rich in spirited blood and a powerless, weak, cachectic old man scarcely capable of breathing. If now the physician wishes to practise the rejuvenating art on the latter, he should make silver tubes which fit into each other: open then the artery of the healthy person and introduce one of the tubes into it and fasten it into the artery; thereupon he opens also the artery of the ill person.

It's not so hard to get rich as it is to know when you have gotten rich.

The rich man is always sold to the institution which makes him rich. Absolutely speaking, the more money, the less virtue.

Music may not make you a genius, or rich, or even a better person. But it helps train you to think differently, to process different points of view — and most important, to take pleasure in listening.

It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.

Our success will not come from the acts of our forefathers, but can come alone from what we are doing now. Those who have inherited rich blood can use that richness in building greatness in themselves, but those who have not the privilege of such inheritance need not be discouraged. They can create their own rich blood and make it as rich as they like.

You have to accommodate the rich and the new rich under the same roof.

[T]hat is the true function of meditation: to create a space in you where you can be rich, infinitely rich, utterly peaceful, absolutely ecstatic.

I am not biased against the rich because they are rich, but the most lively people are those without money who would like to have some

The oligarchic character of the modern English commonwealth does not rest, like many oligarchies, on the cruelty of the rich to the poor. It does not even rest on the kindness of the rich to the poor. It rests on the perennial and unfailing kindness of the poor to the rich.

I no longer want to be rich because I am rich.

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.

More than anything in this world, I wish I had been born rich. It would have made up for everything. I'd still be ugly, sure, but I'd be rich and ugly. I'd still be weak and dim and tongue-tied with women, but I'd be rich enough for them not to care. I'd no longer be a social misfit, I'd be eccentric. And most of all, I'd no longer be what I was, I'd be something different.

Whenever the very rich hold views at odds with those of the entire population, the federal government tends to do the rich's bidding.

I didn't have, like, any way to penetrate organized sports. So I decided at that point that I had to be rich. If I was rich I could just buy a team and run it.

Americans are like a rich father who wishes he knew how to give his son the hardships that made him rich.

Rich Christiansen is one of the most insightful, practical and cost-conscious entrepreneurs in the world today. Listen to Rich. He won't steer you wrong.

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.

They say it is better to be poor and happy than rich and miserable, but how about a compromise like moderately rich and just moody?

I love colors, but I also love rich sounds. And I feel like when it comes to colored ukuleles, people assume they're cheap or that they'll have a tinny sound. And I feel like it would be really beautiful to have a rich color but also to have a rich sound.

Rich enough that I don't have to tell em I'm rich

When you have the medical advances you think will they be available to everyone. Will they not just be for the rich world or even just the rich people and the rich world? Will they be for the world at large?

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.

I feel like the traditional patron system meant that you would kiss the ass of one rich person and then hide all of the financial goings-on of your work, and you could pretend you were pure.

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.

And those are the Rich, who transmit what they have to their Posterity; whereby particular Families become rich; and of such are compounded Cities, Countries, Nations, etc.

That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.

If you're a Republican and rich, that's evil. But if you're a Democrat and rich, that's great.

President Bush says he has just one question for the American voters, 'Is the rich person you're working for better off now than they were four years ago?'

I think people's perception of a rich girl is literal, but metaphorically I embrace it as being rich in love, spirit, joy and religion. So it's not about money.

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

It is better to live rich than to die rich.

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.

You don't have to be rich and famous. You just have to be an ordinary person, doing extraordinary things. I'd like more people to know that it's there. Women's achievements still aren't recognised enough in many areas.

I've had so many rich, rich, beautiful things happen to me in my life because I do have energy, and I do reach out, and I stretch my eyes.

You can serve God and man in no more effective way than by getting rich; that is, if you get rich by the creative method and not by the competitive one.

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.

The single most important factor to getting rich is getting started, not being the smartest person in the room.

I'm not filthy rich! I'm not as rich as people think. It's funny, isn't it?

People used to complain about 'the idle rich.' But the idle rich did not do the kind of harm being done by today's busybody rich, who feed their own egos by bankrolling political crusades on the left which hurt the very people that the left claims to care about -- working people, minorities, and children.

We say the United States is a rich country, but how can we be rich when millions of poor American children go to bed hungry?

Its better to have a rich soul than to be rich.