Rich Quotes - Page 44

Riches should come as the reward for hard work, preferably by one's forebears

In always wanting to be comfortable, you become lazy. In always wanting perfection, you become angry. In always wanting to be rich, you become greedy.

Your richness is on your ability to share and not in how much you have.

No matter how many rich people call New York their home, we don't really have enough capital here to build and maintain the infrastructure that a population needs to live. We don't have the federal money, and for-profit investors are just not interested in anything other than making the biggest profit they can.

Given a rich environment, learning becomes like the air—it’s in and around us.

Riches are oftener an impediment than a stimulus to action; and in many cases they are quite as much a misfortune as a blessing.

To a people warlike and indigent, an incursion into a rich country is never hurtful.

Terence: As my old da used to tell me, 'never trust a rich man'. David: Good thing I'm only moderately rich. Terence: Which is why I only moderately distrust you.

The secret to riches is the same as the secret to comedy - timing.

You know, I'm blessed. 'Blessed' is a better way of saying 'rich.'

Celebrities are nowhere as rich as some people think they are.

Riches can be stolen-not richness.

I don't believe that there is fair enough understanding of either our status as women or the total context of our lives, which is very rich and multi-faceted.

The prospect of getting rich is highly motivating, and few people get rich without taking a gamble.

It costs a lot of money to be rich.

Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you. I always was a rich person because money's not related to happiness.

Working for the earth is not a way to get rich, it is a way to be rich.

I don't want to get rich - just live good.

I had a couple of million dollars' worth of... stock once. And now it's not worth much more than wallpaper. I guess I just wasn't born to be rich.

We're not so poor that we have to spend our wilderness or so rich that we can afford to.

NOTHING which life has to offer is worth the price of worry

If you know the wavefunction of the universe, why aren't you rich?

I feel like the traditional patron system meant that you would kiss the ass of one rich person and then hide all of the financial goings-on of your work, and you could pretend you were pure.

Buddy Rich is one of a kind; he's a genius, and that's all there is to it.

The ethos and critique are of poetry, which becomes a rich dark with a phosphorescence of lyric as witness.