Rich Quotes

The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.

~ Adam Mckay

The only rich person is a person who is rich in spirit. I have no money deposit. I have only beauty deposit.

~ Imelda Marcos

Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant source of surprise to people of moderate means to observe how little a big fortune contributes to Beauty.

~ Margot Asquith

The problem with beauty is that it's like being born rich and getting poorer.

~ Joan Collins

You know the funny thing, I don't get along with rich people. I get along with the middle class and the poor people better than I get along with the rich people.

~ Donald Trump

There are precedents for what happens when societies allow the divide between rich and poor to get so huge that it stops being funny and starts becoming a sick, blood-boiling joke. If you had a Tardis, you could go back to 1917 and ask the Russian royal family how it was all going.

~ John Niven

The good news is that, according to the Obama administration, the rich will pay for everything. The bad news is that, according to the Obama administration, you're rich.

~ P. J. O'rourke

All the political angst and moral melodrama about getting 'the rich' to pay 'their fair share' is part of a big charade. This is not about economics, it is about politics.

~ Thomas Sowell

The pro athlete is a sad tale. He signs a big contract and thinks he's set for life. I didn't think I was set for life, and I don't now. As athletes, we are important, celebrities, in demand and rich. Then we are out of the game and we are not important, not celebrities, not in demand and not rich.

~ Fran Tarkenton

Bill Gates is a very rich man today... and do you want to know why? The answer is one word: versions.

~ Dave Barry

We always say Jordan is not rich in natural resources - we don't have oil or gas like some of our neighbors do - but I think in terms of human resources, we are quite lucky and we are really trying to foster an environment of innovation and technology. I think Jordan will emerge as a center of innovation in the Middle East.

~ Queen Rania Of Jordan

My parents know I was outgoing as a child, and whenever people came over, I'd automatically do impressions of them as soon as they left; it was my mom's favorite thing. Yes, I grew up in Hollywood, but not in any rich neighborhood.

~ Leonardo Dicaprio

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.

~ Marco Rubio

It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes.

~ Andrew Jackson

All the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.

~ William Henry Harrison

He mocks the people who proposes that the government shall protect the rich and that they in turn will care for the laboring poor.

~ Grover Cleveland

I believe and I say it is true Democratic feeling, that all the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.

~ William Henry Harrison

The goal to strive for is a poor government but a rich people.

~ Andrew Johnson

I'm way too famous and rich to be on a dating app, but if I get very desperate by the time I'm 60, I'll go on Tinder. Or I'll go on 'Millionaire Matchmaker'; I'll call Patti Stanger.

~ Lisa Lampanelli

I always wanted so much glamour in my life, so I have always been obsessed with class, and from dating a few people who were from old money and a few from new money in my 20s, I just sort of became obsessed with this idea of clueless rich people.

~ Natasha Leggero

To get rich, you have to be making money while you're asleep.

~ David Bailey

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

~ W. C. Fields

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

~ J. Paul Getty

I'm a little lavish I must admit. But I'm not really concerned with money. Being rich is not my goal, being wealthy is.

~ Ceelo Green

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

~ Marlene Dietrich

If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals.

~ Susan B. Anthony

As kids we didn't complain about being poor; we talked about how rich we were going to be and made moves to get the lifestyle we aspired to by any means we could. And as soon as we had a little money, we were eager to show it.

~ Jay-Z

We learned many years ago that the rich may have money, but the poor have time.

~ César Chávez

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

~ Edmund Burke

I know why most people never get rich. They put the money ahead of the job. If you just think of the job, the money will automatically follow. This never fails.

~ Hedy Lamarr

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.

~ John Kenneth Galbraith

The rich man who gives, steals twice over. First he steals the money and then the hearts of men.

~ Edvard Munch

I enjoy my money, and I'm not ashamed to admit it. I'd certainly rather be rich than poor.

~ Christine Mcvie

The country that consistently ranks among the highest in educational achievement is Finland. A rich country, but education is free. Germany, education is free. France, education is free.

~ Noam Chomsky

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.

~ Kathleen Blanco

A country so rich that it can send people to the moon still has hundreds of thousands of its citizens who can't read. That's terribly troubling to me.

~ Charles Kuralt

History does not repeat itself. Nor does it unfold in cycles. The real future is contingent, rich beyond imagining, a perennial gobsmack, tragic and glorious in equal measure; the pundits' future, spun of 'conventional wisdom,' is only a sucker punch to that common-sense fact.

~ Rick Perlstein

Real history is far more complex and interesting than the simplistic summaries presented in Wikipedia articles. Knowing this allows you to question received wisdom, to challenge 'facts' 'everybody' knows to be true, and to imagine worlds and characters worthy of our rich historical heritage and our complex selves.

~ Ken Liu

Rappers aren't the really rich ones. We all have nice houses with studios and cars, but you need a piece of someone's business to be super wealthy.

~ Drake

Driving with one foot on the accelerator and the other on the brake is likely to get you nowhere, but certainly will burn out vital parts of your car. Similarly, cutting taxes on the middle class, but increasing them on the 'rich' is likely to result in an economic burnout.

~ Terry Savage