Rich Quotes
514 quotes
"The biggest challenge after success is shutting up about it."
"I have rubbed shoulders with the rich, the powerful, and the armless. It’s how to network when handshakes aren’t an option."
"When she tried to seduce me, I got suspicious, thinking she was just after my massive fortune. Then I relaxed, when I remembered I'm poor."
"I mined my mind, and I found no love. My heart is where excavation yields gold, and if you dig me as much as I dig you, we can both get rich."
"As soon as you cross the county line into where all the wealthier people live, the weather is suddenly sunnier and warmer. Even at night."
"If I die with a zillion dollars and you die with zero, our net worth is worthless. All that matters is the love we level across our lives."
"Words rich in meaning can be cheap in sound effects."
"The world is a goddamned evil place, the strong prey on the weak, the rich on the poor; I’ve given up hope that there is a God that will save us all. How am I supposed to believe that there’s a heaven and a hell when all I see now is hell."
"There is no point in getting rich if we lose our soul along the way."
"We ought not to ask why the human mind troubles to fathom the secrets of the universe. The diversity of the phenomena of nature is so great, and the treasures hidden in the skies so rich, precisely in order that the human mind shall never be lacking in fresh nourishment."
"When you optimize your talents very well, you can pick money from people's pockets and nobody will ever get the guts to call you a thief."
"Some women seem so voluptuous in every sense, richly bountiful and fertile with generous gifts of plenty, sensual and confident in their female strength that they are called "earth mothers."That’s how some days feel—when they are bountiful and fertile with the power of our imagination."
"It is the privilege of the richTo waste the time of the poorTo water with tears in secretA tree that grows in secretThat bears fruit in secretThat ripened falls to the ground in secretAnd manures the parent treeOh the wicked tree of hatred and the secretThe sap rising and the tears falling."
"We are all dust passing through the air, the difference is, some are flying high in the sky, while others are flying low. But eventually, we all settle on the same ground."
"Getting rid of poverty is not about making the rich more aware: it’s about educating the poor and empowering them from within."
"When value systems are embraced by a nation, when the citizens of a country are truly rich in virtues, then material wealth is a matter of time."
"The tendency of the human mind is to see the world with a ‘dualistic’ view that describes everything through comparisons: good and bad, pain and happiness, beauty and ugliness, rich and poor."
"I love money. I love everything about it. I bought some pretty good stuff. Got me a $300 pair of socks. Got a fur sink. An electric dog polisher. A gasoline powered turtleneck sweater. And, of course, I bought some dumb stuff, too."
"You are not rich until you have a rich heart."
"Capitalism is a social system owned by the capitalistic class, a small network of very wealthy and powerful businessmen, who compromise the health and security of the general population for corporate gain."
Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
"Life… For some it is battle for others its dance...For rich it is party for poor it is chance!"
"Don't be fooled. It's good to be rich and to have money, but know that money is not everything the way people hyped it. People who claim to have more money or rich can't still can't afford what they want, nomatter how much they have. Things like love, friendship , happiness, peaceful mind, inner peace and whatever they so desire to have."
"I may be very poor, but I'm rich in so many other ways."
"My mother always says people should be able to take care of themselves, even if they're rich and important."
"The rich and the poor truly are from different realms: one has adapted to become an expert in material forfeit; the other has forfeited all they are to material, and thus is enslaved, by it."
"There are many different ways to be poor in the world but increasingly there seems to be one single way to be rich."
"Do not spend all your strength to make money."
"Among other possibilities, money was invented to make it possible for a foolish man to control wise men; a weak man, strong men; a child, old men; an ignorant man, knowledgeable men; and for a dwarf to control giants."
"Your realm is an insane place. In Volaria, no-one goes hungry, slaves are no use when they starve. Those freeborn too lazy or lacking in intelligence to turn sufficient profit to feed themselves are made slaves so they can generate wealth for those deserving of freedom, and be fed in return. Here, your people are chained by their freedom, free to starve and beg from the rich. It's disgusting."
"Being rich or famous is the only profound thing that some people have ever said."
"Being wealthy isn't just a question of having lots of money. It's a question of what we want. Wealth isn't an absolute, it's relative to desire. Every time we seek something that we can't afford, we can be counted as poor, how much money we may actually have."
"Not for the first time I find our lives are a shadow, and I am not afraid to say that people who think they have everything figured out and are masters of logic - they are responsible for the greatest folly. No human being is happy. Strike it rich and you are luckier than your neighbor - but happy, never."
"For most people, art is only valuable if other people say it is; and artists are only worthwhile if they are either rich and famous, or dead."
"Just like how most if not all poor boys look up to and aspire to someday be rich men, most if not all underdeveloped and developing countries look up to and aspire to someday be developed countries."
"When selecting a one-night stand, a heterosexual woman who is materialistic is a trillion times more likely to choose a sexually unattractive poor man who seems rich over a sexually attractive rich man who seems poor."
"If we were not impressed by job titles, suits, and jargon, we would demand that financial advisors show us their personal bank statements before they tell us what we could or should do with our own money."
"The death of a billionaire is worth more to the media than the lives of a billion poor people."
"An expensive coffin does not decrease the deceased’s chances of going to hell."
"A truly compassionate man gives a poor woman a portion of his meal before he eats, not after he has eaten."
"Some women’s greatest achievement is sleeping with a man who is rich, famous, and/or wanted by many women, whereas some women’s greatest achievement is refusing to sleep with such a man."
"Getting through life without a lot of money, possessions, and/or friends is admirable, especially if it is by choice."
"The second most dangerous thing about money is that it leaves most of the people who have a lot of it with the unshakable belief that they are intelligent and well informed. The most dangerous thing about it is that it leaves most of the people who do not have a lot of money with the very same belief."
"Life curses some poor people with the love of luxury, while it blesses some with the very same thing."
"Some people will insult your intelligence by suddenly being nice or nicer to you once you make it … or they think you have."
"Most of the very few people who would choose a good heart over riches would eventually use that to either make a lot of money, or attract men or women who are rich."
"It is the sweat of the servants that make their squire look smart."
"A poor, who hates power, once become powerful, hates poor."
"In general, poor is polite and rich is rude."
"Don't compare the size of your roof with the size of the sky."
"Rich can live better than poor but they cannot live without poor."
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