Rich Quotes - page 91

I had never really wanted to be famous. Everyone is supposed to want to be rich and famous, but as a boy I never knew what rich was, and the first view I had of famous made me leery. (Alan Alda)
For both the rich and the poor, life is dominated by an ever growing current of problems, most of which seem to have no real and lasting solution. Clearly we have not touched the deeper causes of our troubles. View quote
David Bohm
There is a major difference between you and me,' I told him. 'Yes, I am rich. But you are wealthy. And that is why you can buy such (expensive jewelry (for your wife and why I cannot. View quote
Akio Morita
In the past there were people who were not rich but contented with their living style, laughing and happy all day. But when the new rich people appear, people look at them and ask, 'why don't I have a life like that too, a beautiful house, car and garden,' and they abandon their values. View quote
Nhat Hanh
Communism was a great system for making people equally poor - in fact, there was no better system in the world for that than communism. Capitalism made people unequally rich. View quote
Thomas Friedman
I have a problem with too much money. I can't reinvest it fast enough, and because I reinvest it, more money comes in. Yes, the rich do get richer. View quote
Robert Kiyosaki
As a young kid, I really wanted to be rich. View quote
Robert Kiyosaki
In 1997, in Rich Dad, Poor Dad, I stated, 'Your home is not an asset.' Real estate agents sent me hate mail. View quote
Robert Kiyosaki
Think and grow rich. View quote
Napoleon Hill
That man is rich indeed who has more friends than enemies, fears no one, and is so busy building that he has no time to devote to tearing down another's hopes and plans. View quote
Napoleon Hill
Everything, in retrospect, is obvious. But if everything were obvious, authors of histories of financial folly would be rich . . . (Michael Lewis (author))
What are the odds that people will make smart decisions about money if they don't need to make smart decisions--if they can get rich making dumb decisions? The incentives on Wall Street were all wrong; they're still all wrong. View quote
Michael Lewis (author)
I don't think it's a good attitude in your life to feel that you have to be rich to have self-esteem. View quote
Tom Petty
His love of creating, the joy he took in it whether it was drama or comedy or his music, was inspiring to grow up around. The spirit he created on the set of The Andy Griffith Show was joyful and professional all at once. It was an amazing environment. And I think it was a reflection of the way he felt about having the opportunity to create something that people could enjoy. It was always with respect and passion for the opportunity and really what it could offer people in a very unpretentious and earthy way. He felt he was always working in service of an audience he really respected and cared about. He was a great influence on me. His passing is sad. But he lived a great rich life. View quote
Andy Griffith
Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts. View quote
Paramahansa Yogananda
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. View quote
Bruce Sterling
You need not apologize for being brilliant, talented, gorgeous, rich, or smart. View quote
Marianne Williamson
Think it more satisfactory to live richly than die rich. View quote
Thomas Browne
If you go back, 'The Great Gatsby' would be a portrait of the rich and fortune made by business. View quote
Robert Harris (novelist)
The function of law and theology are the same to keep the poor from taking back by violence what the rich have stolen by cunning. View quote
Robert Anton Wilson
Irish fiction is full of secrets, guilty pasts, divided identities. It is no wonder that there is such a rich tradition of Gothic writing in a nation so haunted by history. (Terry Eagleton)
The observances of the church concerning feasts and fasts are tolerably well kept, since the rich keep the feasts and the poor the fasts. View quote
Philip Sidney
The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking. View quote
William Cowper
E'vn in the stifling bosom of the town, A garden, in which nothing thrives, has charms That soothes the rich possessor much consol'd, That here and there some sprigs of mournful mint, Or nightshade, or valerian, grace the well He cultivates. View quote
William Cowper
In 1913, Nobel prize Otto Heinrich Warburg was the first to observe that cancer cannot develop in a rich stace full of oxygen. Nobel prize Roy Walford also observed that caloric restriction, could increase longevity and health. View quote
Jean-Pierre Willem