Richest Quotes

Privacy about giving is counterproductive. There is solid scientific research showing that people are more likely to give if they can see that others are giving. The richest people, in particular, should be setting an example.

I'm a schoolteacher. That's even worse than being an intellectual. Schoolteachers are not only comic, they're often cold and hungry in this richest land on earth.

We did a different show every night. We'd open a show, and then two weeks later we'd open the next show. And two weeks later we'd open the third show until we had all eight running. And it was just one of the richest experiences I'd ever had in my theatrical life.

I mean, before this, I would have said playing Bill Gates, because I'm playing someone obviously who is alive and is the richest man in the world. That was a heavy responsibility.

What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest.

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.

Some of the most miserable people I know are some of the richest people in America, they are the most miserable individuals I've ever seen.

What, other than injustice, could be the reason that the displaced citizens of New Orleans cannot be accommodated by the richest nation in the world?

As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.

People are ready to say, 'Yes, we are ready for single-payer health insurance.' We are the only industrialized country in the world that does not have national health insurance. We are the richest in wealth and the poorest in health of all the industrial nations.

There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there.

That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings.

We must then build a proper relationship between the richest and the poorest countries based on our desire that they are able to fend for themselves with the investment that is necessary in their agriculture, so that Africa is not a net importer of food, but an exporter of food.

The richest most meaningful stories are found in small places: made, carried, crafted, told, and retold by apparently unimportant people.

I come from a district where the veterans are not the richest in the country.

Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful, that's what matters to me.

It's very difficult for the American people to believe that our government, one of the richest on Earth, is also one of the stingiest on Earth.

You may be a princess or the richest woman in the world, but you cannot be more than a lady.

We have seen... that, although England is by far the richest nation of Europe, we have already outstripped her in the race after wealth, and we have only begun the development of our vast resources.