Rich Quotes

My goal was just to work regularly. I didn't ever expect to be rich or famous. I wanted to be a working character actor.

The possessions of the rich are stolen property.

We should always look upon ourselves as God's servants, placed in God's world, to do his work; and accordingly labour faithfully for him; not with a design to grow rich and great, but to glorify God, and do all the good we possibly can.

I have so much empathy for these young actors that are 19 and all of a sudden they're beautiful and famous and rich. I'm like, 'Oh my God, I'd be dead.'

The Soviet Union was an exception, but even there chess players were not rich. Only Fischer changed that.

I'm filthy rich!

The genre has moved into this commercial aspect of itself, and ignored this extraordinarily rich literature that's filed everywhere else except under travel.

It is not easy to get rich in Las Vegas, at Churchill Downs, or at the local Merrill Lynch office.

A miser grows rich by seeming poor; an extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.

As rich as Cincinnati was in live music, New York was even more.

Contrary to popular belief. It's much wiser to take money from the poor than the rich.

The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.

The rich and the well-born, according to the Federalist Papers, was greatly feared by the founders.

Music in itself carries a whole set of messages which are very, very rich and complex, and the words either serve to exclude certain ones or point up certain others.

I thought I had to show people that I would get in early, stay late or even all night, work on holidays. I didn't want to be the rich kid who was along for a free ride.

Each of us has a very rich nature and can look at things objectively, from a distance, and at the same time can have something more personal to say about them. I am trying to look at the world, and at myself, from many different points of view. I think many poets have this duality.

No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.

I don't want to remember 2005 as a year that the government heaped unnecessary burdens upon American families. Stealing from the poor and middle class and giving to the rich, while increasing the deficit, is hardly responsible.

Yes, in socialism the rich will be poorer - but the poor will also be poorer. People will lose interest in really working hard and creating jobs.

Italy is divided between us and them, rich and poor, north and south, young and old, employed and unemployed.

I am Indian, and I'm proud of it. Indian life is mythologically rich and powerful.

Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing... you are talking about the Internet, you are talking about cell phones, you are talking about computers. This doesn't affect two-thirds of the people of the world.

Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.

I think there's a certain sense of grounding that comes from not being a rich kid from a media-elite school.

When you're rich you don't write checks.

Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

I was poor. When you're poor you work, and when you're rich you expect somebody to hand it to you. So I think being reasonably poor is very good for people.

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

Being rich and famous isn't all happiness and at times the pressures have got to me.

If you want to know how rich you really are, find out what would be left of you tomorrow if you should lose every dollar you own tonight.