Rich Quotes

The rich, by unfair combinations, contribute frequently to prolong a season of distress among the poor.

Europe became rich because it exploited Africa; and the Africans know that.

Bill Gates is a very rich man today... and do you want to know why? The answer is one word: versions.

Schools that are to cater for the whole population must offer courses that are as rich and varied as are the needs and abilities of the children who enter them.

I think actors are divided into two groups: one that wants to be an actor to become famous and rich, and the other that wants to be an actor because they have to be. I'm more in the second group.

Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant source of surprise to people of moderate means to observe how little a big fortune contributes to Beauty.

Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Anytime I hear that somebody's really rich, the first question is, 'Do you do anything with it? Or do you, like, chill? You just sit on it?'

The shock caused by the September 11 events has also lead to a thorough reflection on the existing disparity between rich and poor countries, on the misery of populations of the South.

To get rich never risk your health. For it is the truth that health is the wealth of wealth.

It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.

I know why most people never get rich. They put the money ahead of the job. If you just think of the job, the money will automatically follow. This never fails.

It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention.

That's one of the nice things. I mean, part of the beauty of me is that I'm very rich. So if I need $600 million, I can put $600 million myself. That's a huge advantage. I must tell you, that's a huge advantage over the other candidates.

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

Some have too much, yet still do crave; I little have, and seek no more. They are but poor, though much they have, And I am rich with little store.

Washington is a great international city and in the congregation we have people who are rich and poor, black and white, and from every part of the world.

Obama is a leveler. He has come to narrow the divide between rich and poor. For him the ultimate social value is fairness. Imposing it upon the American social order is his mission.

I don't care what anyone says. Being rich is a good thing.

I kept on trying to use so many media and ideas in my work because our horizon is so vast and Indian culture is so rich that I think what we are today, culturally, we have a unique position and I don't think one lifetime is enough to encompass it.

Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.

Let some people get rich first.

It was always easy for me. I was born very rich and lucky.

People live with the illusion that we have a democratic system, but it's only the outward form of one. In reality we live in a plutocracy, a government of the rich.

A rich man told me recently that a liberal is a man who tells other people what to do with their money.

If my career continues along its current arc, people will probably look at me and see a writer who is obsessed with the relationship between rich and poor and with how the rich somehow or other always manage to betray the poor, even when they don't mean to.

There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.

If no man could become rich in Peru, no man could become poor.

If you know how rich you are, you are not rich. But me, I am not aware of the extent of my wealth. That's how rich we are.

What is most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men, but they do not form a class.