Rich Quotes
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Everyone chooses one of two roads in life - the old and the young, the rich and the poor, men and women alike. One is the broad, well-traveled road to mediocrity, the other road to greatness and meaning.
Stephen Covey
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The Government cannot afford to have a country made up entirely of rich people, because rich people pay so little tax that the Government would quickly go bankrupt. This is why Government men always tell us that labor is man's noblest calling. Government needs labor to pay its upkeep.
Russell Baker
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It is extremely important that mass media, having freed from the relics of the Cold War, served for peace and dialogue between nations and religions, the rich and the poor, countries and continents.
Nursultan Nazarbayev
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Italy is divided between us and them, rich and poor, north and south, young and old, employed and unemployed.
Romano Prodi
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I didn't get into music to become famous and I didn't get into music to become rich either - I got into because I liked it.
Jason Aldean
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It's going to be really interesting to see what the heroin market does in the next two years or so. One thing you can be pretty sure of. The Afghan peasants who grow poppies won't get rich. The money will end up in places like Dubai.
Bruce Sterling
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How rich our German life is compared to France or England: what an abundance of social types and customs with completely different origins... Germany is a world, whereas England and France, with their stereotypically divided three social classes, are but enlarged villages... what a stage for a Balzac.
Harry Graf Kessler
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Nobody ever feels rich.
Esther Rantzen
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Does not the whole history of socialism, particularly of French socialism, which is so rich in revolutionary striving, show us that when the working people themselves take power in their hands the ruling classes resort to unheard-of crimes and shootings if it is a matter of protecting their money-bags.
Vladimir Lenin
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I am on the side of the underdog except when I am on the side of the rich
Errol Flynn
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A poor man cannot rival the rich in luxury of life, but he can in luxury of knowledge. He cannot furnish his house as the wealthy can, but he can furnish his head. He cannot found a house of note, but he may found a mind of mark. Though some kingdoms may be adorned or afflicted with kings, learning has always been a republic, where all are equal who know.
George Holyoake
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Contrary to what most people think, there is a Rich Daley under Mayor Daley.
William M. Daley
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What people haven't quite grasped yet is that the rich are transforming cities all across the world.
Cleve Jones
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Were it good To set the exact wealth of all our states All at one cast? to set so rich a main On the nice hazard of one doubtful hour? It were not good.
William Shakespeare
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Do anything better than it was ever done before and youll get rich.
Walt Disney
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That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
Abraham Lincoln
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Michael Jackson was a poor black boy who grew up to be a rich white woman
Molly Ivins
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We are so vain as to set the highest value upon those things to which nature has assigned the lowest place. What can be more coarse and rude in the mind than the precious metals, or more slavish and dirty than the people that dig and work them? And yet they defile our minds more than our bodies, and make the possessor fouler than the artificer of them. Rich men, in fine, are only the greater slaves.
Seneca the Younger
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The poor prayed to become rich, and the rich prayed to become richer.
Barbara Wood
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Budget cuts if you're not rich, tax cuts if you are. Less money for those who don't have any and more to those who do. That's how President Fredo says we're going to get out of the giant deficit hole he's dug. You can't put it any more simply. Rich people richer. Poor people poorer.
Will Durst
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Luxury either comes of riches or makes them necessary; it corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by covetousness.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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I would rather be rich affluent and greedy and go to hell when I die, than live in poverty on this earth.
Al Capone
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He buried his hands in the rich velvet of her hair. “I thought I’d die for wanting you.
Teresa Medeiros
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You have to be very rich or very poor to live without a trade.
Albert Camus