Rich Quotes - page 13

Many years ago a very wise man named Bernard Baruch took me aside and put his arm around my shoulder. "Harpo my boy," he said, "I'm going to give you three pieces of advice, three things you should always remember." My heart jumped and I glowed with expectation. I was going to hear the magic password to a rich, full life from the master himself. "Yes sir?" I said. And he told me the three things. I regret that I've forgotten what they were. (Harpo Marx)
Power leads to more power, no matter what your racket, and not only were they rich and influential but they were smart as hell, too. View quote
Jimmy Hoffa
The girl can look forward to little else than the chance of having a good man for her husband; - a good man, or if her tastes lie in that direction, a rich man. View quote
Anthony Trollope
She knew how to allure by denying, and to make the gift rich by delaying it. View quote
Anthony Trollope
We wouldn't want to be like the Swiss, would we? That would be awful! We'd be rich! View quote
Nigel Farage
To be rich is to give a smile with no expectation of return. View quote
Sri Chinmoy
BRAZILIFICATION:The widening gulf between the rich and the poor and the accompanying disappearance of the middle classes. View quote
Douglas Coupland
Making rich people richer doesn't make the rest of us richer. View quote
Ha-Joon Chang
The history of capitalism has been so totally re-written that many people in the rich world do not perceive the historical double standards involved in recommending free trade and free market to developing countries. View quote
Ha-Joon Chang
A miser grows rich by seeming poor; an extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich. View quote
William Shenstone
In any form of art designed to appeal to large numbers of people,...[t]he rich man is usually 'bad', and his machinations are invariably frustrated.:; 'Good poor man defeats bad rich man' is an accepted formula. (George Orwell)
Modernity needs to understand that being rich and becoming rich are not mathematically, personally, socially, and ethically the same thing. View quote
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
I suppose that the main benefit of being rich (over just being independent) is to be able to despise rich people (a good concentration of whom you find in glitzy ski resorts) without any sour grapes. It is even sweeter when these farts don't know that you are richer than they are. View quote
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
I had a drug problem. I'd go to parties, take a leak, and there was cocaine right there. I was 25 when it started, rich, famous, and retired. View quote
Sugar Ray Leonard
The idea that the poor should have leisure has always been shocking to the rich. View quote
Bertrand Russell
The death-knell of the Republic had rung as soon as the active power became lodged in the hands of those who sought, not to do justice to all citizens, rich and poor alike, but to stand for one special class and for its interests as opposed to the interests of others. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool. View quote
Henry Fielding
Poor and free rather than rich and enslaved. Of course, men want to be both rich and free, and this is what leads them at times to be poor and enslaved. View quote
Albert Camus
So I fell in love with a rich attorney's Elderly, ugly daughter. View quote
W. S. Gilbert
Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor. View quote
Benjamin Franklin
When I say manage emotions, I only mean the really distressing, incapacitating emotions. Feeling emotions is what makes life rich. You need your passions. (Daniel Goleman)
Riches do not make one rich but busy. View quote
Fernando de Rojas
It is said that heaven does not create one man above or below another man. Any existing distinction between the wise and the stupid, between the rich and the poor, comes down to a matter of education. View quote
Fukuzawa Yukichi
A rich bank account did not mean rich ideas; in fact, often the reverse. The bigger your ass, the more you want to cover it. View quote
Gregory Benford
The poor man is ruined as soon as he begins to ape the rich. View quote
Publilius Syrus