Rich Quotes
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You may be surprised to discover you're rich, especially if you're broke.
P. J. O'Rourke
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I've been poor and I've been rich, and rich is better.
Bessie Smith
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For a decade, makers of AIDS medicines had rejected the idea of lowering prices in poor countries for fear of eroding profits in rich ones. The position required a balancing act, because the companies had to deflect attacks on the global reach of their patents, which granted exclusive marketing rights for antiretroviral drugs.
Barton Gellman
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Rich could play way better than Krupa.
Al Hirt
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...funny how people want a return to the good ole days. Of coarse the good ole days of being a rich white plantation owner. Everyone seems to forget the poor white farmer.
Rita Mae Brown
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A miser grows rich by seeming poor. An extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.
William Shenstone
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I am the rich man's guru.
Rajneesh
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Like every other rich asshole, I have a cook and he's in my trailer making food all the time.
Adam Sandler
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However rich I may have been, I have always lived like a poor man.
Michelangelo
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The "trickle-down" theory: the principle that the poor, who must subsist on table scraps dropped by the rich, can best be served by giving the rich bigger meals.
William Blum
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If you know how rich you are, you are not a billionaire.
Mikhail Prokhorov
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Rise early, that by habit it may become familiar, agreeable, healthy, and profitable. It may, for a while, be irksome to do this, but that will wear off; and the practice will produce a rich harvest forever thereafter; whether in public or private walks of life.
George Washington
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Battle Creek has such a rich history of entrepreneurs and invention, and it seems some of that spirit had died down. I'd like to see it back.
Charles Rosen
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Truth will not make us rich, but it will make us free.
Will Durant
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If thou art rich, thou art poor; for, like an ass, whose back with ingots bows, thou bearest thy heavy riches but a journey, and death unloads thee.
William Shakespeare
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When someone becomes successful or rich and famous, people perceive that person as being different. But I'm the same guy I've always been.
Barry Zito
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The comfort of the rich depends on an abundance of the poor. - Voltaire
Cintra Wilson
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St. Ives is a wonderful place to live. It's a small fishing town and one can live there inexpensively. There's a sympathetic population of other artists, where you can exchange ideas, and it's quite rich in artistic thought.
Warren MacKenzie
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The rich stick together; the poor and the marginalised are thrown together.
Tariq Ramadan
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I never met a rich man who was happy, but I have only very occasionally met a poor man who did not want to become a rich man.
Malcolm Muggeridge
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Modi may be rich in politics but is poor at heart.
Kapil Sibal
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Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her.
Jane Austen
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The enjoyment of the choicest natural scenes in the country and the means of recreation connected with them is thus a monopoly, in a very peculiar manner, of a very few very rich people. The great mass of society, including those to whom it would be of the greatest benefit, is excluded from it. In the nature of the case private parks can never be used by the mass of the people in any country nor by any considerable number even of the rich, except by the favor of a few, and in dependence on them.
Frederick Law Olmsted
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The jests of the rich are ever successful.
Oliver Goldsmith