Top 1200 Rich Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

[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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

If one wishes to become rich they must appear rich.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

It is better to live rich than to die rich.

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

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

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

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

You can never become rich unless you like rich people.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.