Rich Quotes

With eye upraised his master's looks to scan, The joy, the solace, and the aid of man; The rich man's guardian, and the poor man's friend, The only creature faithful to the end.

If you go on TV and say there's no other country in the world where you can be born poor and become rich, you get a huge megaphone. If you tell the truth, which is that most of the studies show actually the United States is worse than anybody except Britain in upward mobility, there is no audience for you.

Frank Sinatra taught me how to do him. It took me seven years to master him. He would tell me, tap your foot, Rich, and don't forget to grasp your sleeve.

No one is ever too old, too rich, too poor, to pray.

Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent.

At my public school I had hated every other face for fear the owner was a lord, at university, I was to court the rich while doubting whether there should be great inequalities between incomes.

I believe that all the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.

And so, at the age of thirty, I had successively disgraced myself with three fine institutions, each of which had made me free of its full and rich resources, had trained me with skill and patience, and had shown me nothing but forbearance and charity when I failed in trust.

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

The shock caused by the September 11 events has also lead to a thorough reflection on the existing disparity between rich and poor countries, on the misery of populations of the South.

The rich pay more in total taxes now than ever before - ever. It's true. Just like it's true that when the rich are convinced they're going to be taxed more, they spend less. And when the top few percenters don't spend, there goes all your spending, because they account for half of all retail spending.

Think about it: Every educated person is not rich, but almost every education person has a job and a way out of poverty. So education is a fundamental solution to poverty.

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.

I was obsessed with being rich and famous.

The rich man's dog gets more in the way of vaccination, medicine and medical care than do the workers upon whom the rich man's wealth is built.

Even when people are rich and successful on TV shows, there's always some trouble - you have to poke holes in them, throw them out of a job, put a pie in the face.

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

The resources of our continent attract, more than ever, the interests of rich countries.

We were not as rich as the Rockefellers or Mellons, but we were rich enough to know how rich they were.

I can do whatever I want - I'm rich, I'm famous, and I'm bigger than you.

Robots have a rich and storied history in movies.

It is my hope that as we commemorate Black History Month in the future, we will continue to celebrate the many achievements and rich culture of African-Americans.

He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.

I'm not a rich man, and Greg Lake is certainly not. I don't know how he can survive. I don't know how he can be that suicidal. But having said that, I'd love to be there to help Greg.

I think books with weak or translucent plots can survive if the character being drawn along the path is rich, interesting and multi-faceted. The opposite is not true.

There wasn't a rich father or rich family that paid for everything that I have right now, so I worked my way.

In bad times, the rich usually get richer.

It is better to live rich than to die rich.

The resources of our continent attract, more than ever, the interests of rich countries.

Rich people march on Washington every day.