Rich Quotes

Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

I never had ambitions to see how rich I could get. I got a lot of contemporaries that that's their ambition, and I don't know very many of them that are happy.

Lives in previous centuries for women are largely a matter of class. It would have been fun to have been a rich, privileged woman in the 18th century, but no fun at all to be her maid.

In fact, I'd just like to own something. Everyone thinks I'm glamorous, rich and famous but all I've got is some recording equipment and a battered old BMW.

We were very rich culturally. One Sunday each month, we would do this thing called Chamber Pots at somebody's house. A classical music group would come over and we'd have dinner. There were thirty people - parents and kids - and we'd sit on the floor and listen to this beautiful music.

My dad was a bartender. My mom was a cashier, a maid and a stock clerk at K-Mart. They never made it big. They were never rich. And yet they were successful. Because just a few decades removed from hopelessness, they made possible for us all the things that had been impossible for them.

I don't think that's changed at all. I think there are a thousand stocks out there that could make you rich, totally independent of what you do for a living.

Would that there were an award for people who come to understand the concept of enough. Good enough. Successful enough. Thin enough. Rich enough. Socially responsible enough. When you have self-respect, you have enough.

Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn't enough and you have to go and get shot or something.

Dublin university contains the cream of Ireland: Rich and thick.

With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches.

The rich don't exploit the poor. They just out-compete them.

Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.

I never set out to be rich and famous. I wanted to follow my own path.

A rich man's joke is always funny.

You have to be very rich or very poor to live without a trade.

Think and grow rich.

One of the reasons inequality gets so deep in this country is that everyone wants to be rich. That's the American ideal. Poor people don't like talking about poverty because even though they might live in the projects surrounded by other poor people and have, like, ten dollars in the bank, they don't like to think of themselves as poor.

Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.

Listen friends, you have to face the truth: You are never going to be rich... The system is rigged in favor of the few, and your name is not among them, not now and not ever.

Rich countries can afford to overpay for things.

Drugs are marvelous if you want to escape, but reality is so rich, why escape?

And those are the Rich, who transmit what they have to their Posterity; whereby particular Families become rich; and of such are compounded Cities, Countries, Nations, etc.

A rich rogue nowadays is fit company for any gentleman; and the world, my dear, hath not such a contempt for roguery as you imagine.

Sure, my childhood was unusual. All these eccentric, wild people frequented our home: rock stars, drag queens, models, bikers, freaks. But I was not this little rich girl. My mom and I lived in an apartment.

He who could foresee affairs three days in advance would be rich for thousands of years.

You've got to be rich to have a swing like that.

In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.

I came from a dirt farm, now I'm filthy rich.

My family got all over me because they said Bush is only for the rich people. Then I reminded them, 'Hey, I'm rich'.