Rich Quotes

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.

A wealthy landowner cannot cultivate and improve his farm without spreading comfort and well-being around him. Rich and abundant crops, a numerous population and a prosperous countryside are the rewards for his efforts.

As you grow older, your whole life becomes very rich, multifaceted.

It is harder for a poor man to be successful than it is for a rich man.

The rich are always advising the poor, but the poor seldom return the compliment.

A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic.

Rich men's sons are seldom rich men's fathers.

None of my characters are rich or famous, and the situations they find themselves in could happen to anyone.

These will be fabulous investments and will make millions of more people rich.

Jehovah God is truly rich far beyond the imagination of humankind.

My visit this autumn is an opportunity to continue that rich tradition of visits between Canterbury and Rome.

An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.

As a Republican, I am proud of my party's rich legacy of conservation.

You can almost judge how screwed up somebody is by the kind of toilet paper they use. Go in any rich house and it's some weird coloured embossed stuff.

In our rich consumers' civilization we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions.

As regards my feelings about drummers - there's Buddy Rich, and then there's everybody else.

It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have.

If you are a rich person straining every sinew to keep every last pound in your pocket, there comes a point when you realize you are not just escaping the clutches of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. You are passing a greater burden on to people poorer than yourself, and depriving even poorer people of your support.

I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

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?