Rich Quotes - Page 5

Making rich people richer doesn't make the rest of us richer.

[Autobiographies] are all the same - it's always rags-to-riches or I-slept-with-so-and-so. Damned if I'm going to say that.

We have experienced the truth of this prophecy, for England has become the habitation of outsiders and the dominion of foreigners. Today, no Englishman is earl, bishop, or abbott, and newcomers gnaw away at the riches and very innards of England; nor is there any hope for an end of this misery.

Eat with the rich, but go to the play with the poor, who are capable of joy.

The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.

He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.

I have a different idea of a universal. It is of a universal rich with all that is particular, rich with all the particulars there are, the deepening of each particular, the coexistence of them all.

We were poor when I was young but the difference was that the government didn't come around telling you you were poor.

Far from being a “luxury for the rich,” organic farming may turn out to be a necessity not just for the poor, but for everyone.

Voting is a Constitutional right. Absent any evidence of fraud, all Americans have a protected right to vote, be they rich or poor, black, Hispanic or white, people who live in a big city or in remote rural areas.

Money can't buy happiness, but it does quiet the nerves.

"Half genius and half buffoon," Freeman Dyson ... wrote. ... [Richard] Feynman struck him as uproariously American-unbuttoned and burning with physical energy. It took him a while to realize how obsessively his new friend was tunneling into the very bedrock of modern science.

Rich people march on Washington every day.

You can be too rich and too thin, but you can never be too well read or too curious about the world.

What else is there for the rich to do, If not to relieve the poor of their misery?

Never be deceived that the rich will allow you to vote away their wealth.

A rich man is one who isn't afraid to ask the salesperson to show him something cheaper.

Travel is rich with learning opportunities, and the ultimate sourvenir is a broader perspective.

To cut 1930s jobless, FDR taxed corps and rich. Govt used money to hire many millions. Worked then; would now again. Why no debate on that?

Worldly riches are like nuts; many a tooth is broke in cracking them, but never is the stomach filled with eating them.

To be rich in friends is to be poor in nothing

Poverty is everyone's problem. It cuts across any line you can name: age, race, social, geographic or religious. Whether you are black or white; rich, middle-class or poor, we are ALL touched by poverty

Riches do not come by crossing your fingers and walking through the day hoping. Riches and wealth comes from well-laid plans.

When the rich [and politically powerful] make war, it's the poor [and politically weak] who die.

One is not rich by what one owns, but more by what one is able to do without with dignity.