Rich Quotes

Governments, of course, can - and do - soak the rich.

I don't give any gifts to the rich.

It's difficult working with very rich actors, because inevitably they become a little spoilt, and the managers and agents tend to control things more than is healthy.

If a rich person invests in a business, either directly or through stock purchases, it means business can grow and hire more people.

If we'd have said we were not upset, they would have thought we were so rich it meant nothing to us, and if we say we're upset about it, they'll say money is all we care about.

There are rich people everywhere, and yet they don't contribute to the growth of their countries.

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.

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.

We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society.

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.

Those who spend too fast never grow rich.

I have had lots of friends who've been affected by Aids and a very good friend of mine, Oscar Moore, died of Aids and I was with him in his last year quite a bit. And of course he was a man living in a very rich culture with a wealthy family who was able to afford health care.

I could really use a corporate sponsor. People think that because you're in the movies, you're rich. I have allocated all my resources to Shambala so the animals will always be safe.

I have a different idea of a universal. It is of a universal rich with all that is particular, rich with all the particulars there are, the deepening of each particular, the coexistence of them all.

Taxes are important. President Bush's tax proposals leave no rich person behind. Voters approve of President Bush helping the kind of people they wish they were one of.

Cleveland is my hometown, and the Indians have a narrow but rich history.

No one is rich whose expenditures exceed his means, and no one is poor whose incomings exceed his outgoings.

The poor are the only consistent altruists; they sell all they have and give it to the rich.

If you ever get rich and famous, by definition you are special. You have done something special, and therefore you start to behave special. Then if the floor drops out, and you become down and out, you have a really new perspective.

I am rich beyond the dreams of avarice.

Its easy to have principles when you're rich. The important thing is to have principles when you're poor.

Companies don't get rich hurting their customers.

Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.

The resources of our continent attract, more than ever, the interests of rich countries.