Rich Quotes
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No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or 'get rich' in business by being a conformist.
J. Paul Getty
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Books were the window from which I looked out of a rather meager and decidedly narrow room onto a rich and wonderful universe. I loved the look and feel of books, even the smell... Libraries were treasure houses. I always entered them with a slight thrill of disbelief that all their endless riches were mine for the borrowing.
Zilpha Keatley Snyder
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Inheritance taxes are so high that the happiest mourner at a rich man's funeral is usually Uncle Sam.
Olin Miller
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When I had no money, and a great book came out, I couldn't get it. I had to wait. I love the idea that I have hardcover books here and at home that I haven't read yet. That's how I view that I'm rich. I have hardcover books I may never read.
Sherman Alexie
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Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education... no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.
Abraham Flexner
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When you are rich, people try to take advantage of you.
Tamara Ecclestone
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You can't have personal investors anymore because it's too expensive, so you have to have corporate investment or a lot of rich people.
Stephen Sondheim
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To the revolutionary mind the American vista must have been almost as incredible as Genghis Khan's first view of China - so rich, so soft, so unaware.
Garet Garrett
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Justice is justly represented blind, because she sees no difference in the parties concerned. She has but one scale and weight, for rich and poor, great and small.
William Penn
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O! she doth teach the torches to burn bright It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night Like a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear; Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear. - Romeo -
William Shakespeare
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Feed the poor and get rich or feed the rich and get poor.
Colonel Sanders
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My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.
William Shakespeare
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Beautiful things like beautiful sins belong to the rich.
Oscar Wilde
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In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
Henry Ward Beecher
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In the early days I'd be slaving over a mixing desk. I'm not a recording engineer but I used to mix the record. We used to do it all by ourselves. I just don't really want to do it anymore. I want somebody to do it for me. I want to concentrate on other things. That's been a big change, a learning curve. But no regrets, it's all part of life's rich tapestry.
Stevie Jackson Belle and Sebastian
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I've been poor and I've been rich, and rich is better.
Bessie Smith
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The Poor Peasants' Committees are necessary to fight the kulaks, the rich, the exploiters, who shackle the working peasants.
Vladimir Lenin
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The best way to get around in New York is to be both rich and patient.
Kate Simon
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[John D. Rockefeller] didn't care about anyone he did anything just to be rich and be the only company standing without any competition. He destroyed anyone else.
Ida Tarbell
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Rich could play way better than Krupa.
Al Hirt
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It is simply that America is very rich and very powerful and generally speaking everybody hates the rich and the powerful.
Malcolm Muggeridge
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The only rich person is a person who is rich in spirit. I have no money deposit. I have only beauty deposit.
Imelda Marcos
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Keep a goverment poor and weak and it's your servant; when it is rich and powerful it becomes your master.
H. Beam Piper
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I'm filthy rich! It's good to be Adam Sandler!
Adam Sandler