Rich Quotes

Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that's where it's really at.

~ Bill Ayers

Parallel parking is desirable for two reasons: parked cars create a physical barrier and psychological buffer that protects pedestrians on the sidewalk from moving vehicles; and a rich supply of parallel parking can eliminate the need for parking lots, which are extremely destructive of the civic fabric.

~ James Howard Kunstler

Building a house from scratch in the middle of a field is a bit like building a prototype car. As with all prototypes, if you're building a car you usually have the luxury of producing several prototypes before you arrive at the production line version - so the opportunity for changing things is quite rich.

~ Kevin Mccloud

Consistently rated the most peaceable of all countries in the world by the Global Peace Index, Iceland has reduced its military expenditure to zero, has no armed forces, and has reduced the inequality gap between rich and poor.

~ Scilla Elworthy

When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.

~ Samuel Johnson

I have such a rich fantasy life, I can't help it. I do make up a lot of romantic stories in my head.

~ Mindy Kaling

Poverty is a relationship that involves a lot of folks, rich and poor alike. I was looking for something that brought a lot of different people in a room. Eviction does that, embroils landlords and tenants, lawyers and social workers.

~ Matthew Desmond

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

~ Henry Ward Beecher

Men become wise just as they become rich, more by what they save than by what they receive.

~ Wilbur Wright

The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor.

~ William Temple

Things change all the time, and they'll probably never be the same again. It's just the natural evolution of the human condition. Things change, and whatever it is is what it is. I mean, you try to start second guessing that, you either get rich or die broke.

~ Guy Clark

Let architects sing of aesthetics that bring Rich clients in hordes to their knees; Just give me a home, in a great circle dome Where stresses and strains are at ease.

~ R. Buckminster Fuller

There are two types of poor people, those who are poor together and those who are poor alone. The first are the true poor, the others are rich people out of luck.

~ Jean-Paul Sartre

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.

~ Henry David Thoreau

In the rich world, the environmental situation has improved dramatically. In the United States, the most important environmental indicator, particulate air pollution, has been cut by more than half since 1955, rivers and coastal waters have dramatically improved, and forests are increasing.

~ Bjorn Lomborg

I'm a latecomer to the environmental issue, which for years seemed to me like an excuse for more government regulation. But I can see that in rich societies, voters are paying less attention to economic issues and more to issues of the spirit, including the environment.

~ David Frum

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

~ John F. Kennedy

Britain is rich in radicalism, and anyone who says that our society has drifted into fatalism and apathy should get out more.

~ Geoff Mulgan

Inspiration, in its rich variety, must be present in any discussion about Africa. We need role models - they are essential to the advancement of our society.

~ Richard Attias

This society cannot go forward, the way we have been going forward, where the gap between the rich and the poor keeps growing. It's not politically viable; it's not morally right; it's just not going to happen.

~ Michael Bloomberg

The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.

~ Jawaharlal Nehru

The only people who benefit from lawsuits are lawyers. I think we made a couple of them rich.

~ Gavin Rossdale

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

~ T. Harv Eker

My dad never graduated high school. He was a printing salesman. We lived in a two-bedroom, one-bath house in St. Louis Park, Minnesota. We weren't rich - but we felt secure.

~ Al Franken

When my book 'Rich Dad's Prophecy' was released in 2002, most financial newspapers and magazines trashed it because I discussed a looming stock market crash.

~ Robert Kiyosaki

My rich dad believed we should all learn to take care of ourselves.

~ Robert Kiyosaki

Rich men's sons are seldom rich men's fathers.

~ Herbert Kaufman

We are the only beings on the planet who lead such rich internal lives that it's not the events that matter most to us, but rather, it's how we interpret those events that will determine how we think about ourselves and how we will act in the future.

~ Tony Robbins

Planning ahead is a measure of class. The rich and even the middle class plan for future generations, but the poor can plan ahead only a few weeks or days.

~ Gloria Steinem