Rich Quotes - Page 40

It's impossible for a dishonest person to grow rich in business.

We see but the outside of a rich man's happiness; few consider him to be like the silkworm, that, when she seems to play, is at the very same time consuming herself.

Without peace there can be no prosperity for any people, rich or poor. And yet, there can be no peace without erasing the harshness of the growing contrast between the rich and the poor.

Riches ennoble a man's circumstances, but not himself.

Riches either serve or govern the possessor.

Everything, virtue, glory, honor, things human and divine, all are slaves to riches.

Increasing wealth is attended by care and by the desire of greater increase.

For everything divine and human, virtue, fame, and honor, now obey the alluring influence of riches.

Our fruitless labours mourn, And only rich in barren fame return.

The poor man with industry is happier than the rich man in idleness.

As the cream abandons the milk from which it took its life, and rises to the top and rides there, so men, because they are richer than those around about them, separate themselves, and all mankind below them they regard as skim milk.

Socialists will often talk as if some form of superbly equalized destitution were preferable to "maldistributed" plenty. A national income that is rapidly growing in absolute terms for practically everyone will be deplored because it is making the rich richer.

... it is a most severe trial for those women to be called to lay down beauty, who have nothing else to take up. It is for this sober season of life that education should lay up its rich resources.

Gore Vidal, the American writer, once described the American economic system as 'free enterprise for the poor and socialism for the rich'. Macroeconomic policy on the global scale is a bit like that. It is Keynesianism for the rich countries and monetarism for the poor.

God must love the rich or he wouldn't divide so much among so few of them.

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

The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.

You think I was born rich? I've worked really hard. You have no idea.

As for time, all men have it in abundance.

Rich men without convictions are more dangerous in modern society than poor women without chastity.

I am a brigand: I live by robbing the rich.' 'I am a gentleman: I live by robbing the poor.

People who are hard, grasping and always ready to take advantage of their neighbors become very rich.

In love, as in finance, only the rich can get credit.

If thou be rich, strive to command thy money, lest it command thee.

Wouldst thou multiply thy riches? diminish them wisely; or wouldst thou make thy estate entire? divide it charitably. Seeds that are scattered increase; but, hoarded up, they perish.