Rich Quotes

It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.

It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.

You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich.

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

Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity.

Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute.

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

For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine.

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 have managed to infuriate the bank bosses; acquire a fatwa from the revolutionary guards of the trades union movement; frighten the 'Daily Telegraph' with a progressive graduate payment; and upset very rich people who are trying to dodge British taxes. I must be doing something right.

These people being of a sharp and acute intellect, and gifted with a rich and powerful understanding, excel in whatever studies they pursue, and are more quick and cunning than the other inhabitants of a western clime.

So much of literary sci-fi is about creating worlds that are rich and detailed and make sense at a social level. We'll create a world for people and then later present a narrative in that world.

I don't know how anyone could vote Republican. It's so obvious that their only interest is keeping the rich rich.

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

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

When the first big paycheque with 'Dumb And Dumber' hit, I went: 'Gosh, I wonder if this will affect my performance. Will I do a take and think, was that worth $7 million?' But that never happened. If anything, it made me rebel against that thing when people who get rich start playing it safe.

There are people who have money and people who are rich.

The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.

The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.

Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.

I tell you the truth, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.

I'm busier than ever and it's led to new opportunities. But I've never worried about being rich or famous - for me, it's all about the dancing.

Well, the taxes that everyone else is paying are supporting lots of programs that were in place prior to Obama's new spending. So new spending has too be paid for by new taxes, or by eliminating existing tax breaks. And Obama wants that burden to be borne exclusively by the rich.

I don't have any expectations as an actor, and being rich and famous is not my driving force.

Buddy Rich was one of the most incredible technicians in the world, on this planet, but the only people he could really impress, who knew what he was doing was another musician or another drummer.

Contrary to what most people think, there is a Rich Daley under Mayor Daley.

When people get at each other's throat, the rich and the poor and the Left and the Right and so on, and you have a basic breakdown, that becomes very threatening.

We weren't wealthy but we definitely weren't poor. We were incredibly rich because there was a wonderful community in Shepherd's Bush, where I grew up. All my friends were into villainy and crime.

A conservative is a fellow who thinks a rich man should have a square deal.

In fact that is the struggle that most Americans - As rich as this country is, most Americans are very limited in their interaction with the world, unless the world comes to us in a very shocking way.

Most rich countries have reported increases in happiness as they become richer.

The genre has moved into this commercial aspect of itself, and ignored this extraordinarily rich literature that's filed everywhere else except under travel.

By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.

They say it is better to be poor and happy than rich and miserable, but how about a compromise like moderately rich and just moody?

There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich.

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.

But the fact is, most people are not going to be rich someday.

The poor man wishes to conceal his poverty, and the rich man his wealth: the former fears lest he be despised, the latter lest he be plundered.

When you are rich, people try to take advantage of you.

Sometimes, the smaller roles in movies can be the most interesting. If you only take the stance that you'll only play central characters in movies, you'll find yourself not being able to indulge in that morally grey terrain that makes support characters so rich and interesting.

For the rich, it's not about getting more stuff. It's about having the freedom to make almost any decision you want.

I think 'The Wire' really is relatable. It reflects an ongoing issue across America, about inaccuracies in major cities between rich and the poor and some of the things that go on behind the red tape of council and government bodies.

We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.

Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.

Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.

It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble.

When a man's stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor.

Contrary to what you might think, China's economy is relatively less efficient, and more polluting, than those of rich countries.

Draco's not really a bully. He's not exactly the biggest, strongest guy in the world. He's more a rich, snobby person. He thinks of himself as really cool.

A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.

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

It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.

Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion.

Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.

There are certain TV shows that probably would have made me rich, and there are certain commitments I could have made that probably would have raised a lot of eyebrows that I didn't. But I don't look back at those decisions and say, 'Oh God, I'm such an idiot.'

Of all classes the rich are the most noticed and the least studied.

We can safely abandon the doctrine of the eighties, namely that the rich were not working because they had too little money, the poor because they had much.

Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.

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.

At Adaptive Path, we've been doing our own work with Ajax over the last several months, and we're realizing we've only scratched the surface of the rich interaction and responsiveness that Ajax applications can provide.

The general idea of the rich helping the poor, I think, is important.

Rich countries can afford to overpay for things.

Like almost everyone who uses e-mail, I receive a ton of spam every day. Much of it offers to help me get out of debt or get rich quick. It would be funny if it weren't so exciting.

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.

The Ohio State University has a rich - if quiet - heritage of the arts.

If you can actually count your money, then you're not a rich man.

No one is rich whose expenditures exceed his means, and no one is poor whose incomings exceed his outgoings.

For people who are at the bottom economically, the world is becoming a harder and harder place. And yet the incentives to become rich are so great because enormous amounts of wealth are being accumulated. And so those two things, that carrot and stick, are beating people along this trajectory of trying desperately to move up in the world.

He will bring us all, rich and poor, white and black, to his judgment seat.

Think and grow rich.

Asia is rich in people, rich in culture and rich in resources. It is also rich in trouble.