Rich Quotes

One thing must be granted to the rich: they are goodnatured.

I am going to confront the old-fashioned negative thinking which says that all government needs to do to generate growth is cut worker and environmental protections, cut taxes on the rich and stroke 'fat cats' until they purr with pleasure. I'm completely repudiating the idea that government has to get out of the way.

I think English is a fantastic, rich and musical language, but of course your mother tongue is the most important for an actor.

I'm a mom, so I have to be comfortable. Jeans are a staple - I have way too many in my closet! It's warm in Florida, so I wear jeans and a tank top every day. I love my True Religions, my Rich and Skinny, and Citizens of Humanity. But I also love getting dressed up!

It is usually people in the money business, finance, and international trade that are really rich.

I would rather write for the instruction, or even the amusement of the poor than for the amusement of the rich.

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.

I've had two callers ask, 'Did you ever work for someone who is poorer than you are?' Their idea is it takes a rich person to give you a job because jobs are something that are given to you, an inferior, from on high.

The rich are different from you and me because they have more credit.

The rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized world.

I had no idea that being your authentic self could make me as rich as I've become. If I had, I'd have done it a lot earlier.

My mother wasn't rich, and I never seen my father. I was a street performer. I've been shot. And now I'm known around the world, and I've touched a lot of people with my music. That's one of the great testimonies that's gonna go down in history.

I don't want to get into the 'who's a hostage-taker' discussion here, but what is the estate tax? It's a double tax on death. Economists will tell you that it's really not a tax that soaks the rich, but it's a tax on capital that deprives business investment and therefore job creation.

The fool is like those people who think themselves rich with little.

I really like one-on-one, rich relationships.

To have the opportunity to lead the Solicitor General's office is the honor of a lifetime. As you know, this is an office with a long and rich tradition, not only of extraordinary legal skill but also of extraordinary professionalism and integrity. That is due, in large measure, to the people who have led it.

To the revolutionary mind the American vista must have been almost as incredible as Genghis Khan's first view of China - so rich, so soft, so unaware.

This war differs from other wars, in this particular. We are not fighting armies but a hostile people, and must make old and young, rich and poor, feel the hard hand of war.

A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it.

Look for a sweet person. Forget rich.

The wealth of the country, its capital, its credit, must be saved from the predatory poor as well as the predatory rich, but above all from the predatory politician.

In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face.

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

If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by persons who move their lips when they're reading to themselves.

I could be the Greta Garbo of comedy, very secluded, but Garbo had a man who was beyond rich to support her.

If one is rich and one's a woman, one can be quite misunderstood.

The poor have to labour in the face of the majestic equality of the law, which forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.

The question is not only what is grown but what it's used for. There's not going to be a mass transformation of dietary habits in rich countries-on the contrary, the first thing people do when they become more prosperous is to buy more meat.

When the rich think about the poor, they have poor ideas.

Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.