Top 100 A Rich Man Quotes
#1. A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool.
Henry Fielding
#2. The girl can look forward to little else than the chance of having a good man for her husband; a good man, or if her tastes lie in that direction, a rich man.
Anthony Trollope
#3. In all conditions of life a poor man is a near neighbor to an honest one, and a rich man is as little removed from a knave.
Jean De La Bruyere
#4. A wealthy doctor who can help a poor man, and will not without a fee, has less sense of humanity than a poor ruffian, who kills a rich man to supply his necessities.
Joseph Addison
#5. The only difference between a rich man and a poor man, is that the poor man suffers uncomfortably, while the rich man suffers comfortably.
Swami Brahmananda
#6. As a rich man sees no reason for rejoicing in a meager gift of bread until a turn of events leaves him impoverished, so the sinner finds no joy in salvation until the horrid nature of his sin is revealed and he sees himself as wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked.
Paul David Washer
#7. A rich man doesn't need to tell you he's rich.
Neil Strauss
#8. Terence: As my old da used to tell me, 'never trust a rich man'.
David: Good thing I'm only moderately rich.
Terence: Which is why I only moderately distrust you.
Sabrina Jeffries
#9. To say to a rich man: You are poor! is to tell the Archbishop of Granada that his sermons are worthless.
Honore De Balzac
#10. A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money
W.C. Fields
#11. A condemned poor man, if steals to feed his starving kid, is slammed into prison. Contrast this to a rich man's crime.
Imran Khan
#12. If a girl is in love with a poor guy and chooses him, then that is worst for her. If she chooses a rich man, it will be to her advantage. Everything will be fine.
Odd Nerdrum
#13. I'm a rich man. To have everything you need is the definition of affluence.
Lee Child
#14. A rich man who robs from the poor is really a pauper in the land of morality.
Dennis Adonis
#15. Riches are a stronghold in the imagination of a rich man.
Solomon
#16. Bin Laden was born filthy rich and died in a rich man's house, which he had painstakingly built to the highest specifications.
Salman Rushdie
#17. I'm not a rich man, and Greg Lake is certainly not. I don't know how he can survive. I don't know how he can be that suicidal. But having said that, I'd love to be there to help Greg.
Keith Emerson
#18. The female doesn't want a rich man or a handsome man or even a poet, she wants a man who understands her eyes if she gets sad, and points to his chest and say : 'Here is your home country.
Nizar Qabbani
#19. I was asked once,'your a smart man,why arnt you rich?I replied 'your a rich man,why arnt you smart?
Jacque Fresco
#20. A rich man is always simply a rich man, but a rich woman is only a poor woman who just happens to have money.
Douglas Coupland
#21. Grooming oneself with all the crazed compulsion of an under-exercised lab rat in order to hook a rich man and obtain a lush lifestyle makes a certain (albeit seedy) sense.
Julie Burchill
#23. When asked what was the proper time for supper: If you are a rich man, whenever you please; and if you are a poor man, whenever you can.
Diogenes
#25. Don't marry a rich man. Marry a good man. He will spend his life trying to keep you happy. No rich man can buy that!
Staness Jonekos
#26. A man's wealth can ... also be measured by what he doesn't have and doesn't want. When he wants little, he is a rich man.
Bill Bonner
#27. If you work, you will find favor from God and you will become a rich man
Sunday Adelaja
#28. In a materialistic society, the dead body of a rich man's dog is regarded as a corpse; that of a poor man, a carcass.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#29. To steal from a rich man has always been a greater crime than to kill a poor man.
Victor Serge
#30. A rich man cannot enjoy a sound mind nor a sound body without exercise and abstinence; and yet these are truly the worst ingredients of poverty.
Henry Home
#31. We have ministers who are incapable of doing what has been ordered from above because there is no follow up, because there are no consequences. If you are poor man and you steal, your hand is cut off after three offences. But if you are a rich man, nobody will say anything to you.
Basmah Bint Saud
#32. Piety's hard enough to take among the poor who have to practice it. A rich man's piety stinks. It's insufferable.
Archibald MacLeish
#33. You do not have to be the son of a rich man to be an entrepreneur. Today kids are far more willing to take risks because they've seen high rewards.
N. R. Narayana Murthy
#34. Not eternal is the world of appearances, not eternal ,anything but eternal are our garments and the style of our hair ,our bodies themselves.I am wearing a rich mans garments because i have been a rich man but i am no rich man anymore what i will be tomorrow i dont know
Hermann Hesse
#36. It was not laziness if he was a rich man. Only the poor were lazy. Just as only the poor were ignorant. A rich man who didn't know anything was spoiled or independent.
John Steinbeck
#37. Don't protest outside of a rich man's house in the daytime, you'll just scare the maid, and that's Arnold Schwarzenegger's job.
Craig Ferguson
#38. It is rare to see a rich man religious; for religion preaches restraint, and riches prompt to unlicensed freedom.
Owen Feltham
#39. And have you traveled very far?
Far as the eye can see.
How often have you been there?
Often enough to know.
What did you see when you were there?
Nothing that doesn't show.
(from the 1967 song, "Baby You're a Rich Man".
The Beatles
#41. I lost a world the other day. Has anybody found? You'll know it by the rows of stars around it's forehead bound. A rich man might not notice it; yet to my frugal eye of more esteem than ducats. Oh! Find it, sir, for me!
Emily Dickinson
#42. It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
Ilona Andrews
#43. Good health, longevity, happiness, a loving family, self-reliance, fine friends ... if you [have] five, you're a rich man ... .
Thomas J. Stanley
#44. While a rich man cannot have more than 1440 minutes a day, a clever man makes more time by using OPM or Other Peoples Minutes.-RVM
R.v.m.
#45. The Bible does not say money is the root of all evil; it says the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil. A poor man who, in his heart, worships the idea of being rich is more vulnerable to its evils than a rich man who has a heart to use it all for the Lord.
Criss Jami
#46. As a rich man, when you mock the poor you fail the test of wealth.
Felix Wantang
#47. Charity is a cold grey loveless thing. If a rich man wants to help the poor, he should pay his taxes gladly, not dole out money at a whim.
Clement Attlee
#48. Who would be a poor man, a beggar man, a thief, if he held a rich man in his hand?
Jethro Tull
#49. Stop thinking about class, she'd say. Like a rich man telling a poor man to stop thinking about money.
John Fowles
#51. He who is satisfied with what he has, is a rich man.
Nabil N. Jamal
#52. A man is called a traitor, or liberator. A rich man is a theif or philanthropist. Is one a crusader or ruthless invader? It's all in which label is able to persist.
Gregory Maguire
#53. It is harder for a poor man to be successful than it is for a rich man.
Gregory Nunn
#54. I heard someone say that it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than a rich man to get into heaven. I decided to sculpt camels in a needle.
Willard Wigan
#55. Save your wealth against future calamity. Do not say, "what fear has a rich man of calamity?" Wealth sometimes vanishes away and large accumulations perish.
Chanakya
#57. That was always my experience-a poor boy in a rich town; a poor boy in a rich boy's school; a poor boy in a rich man's club at Princeton ... However, I have never been able to forgive the rich for being rich, and it has colored my entire life and works.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#58. A conservative is a fellow who thinks a rich man should have a square deal.
Frank Dane
#60. Perhaps they do not recognize themselves, for a rich man is even harder to define than a poor one.
William Graham Sumner
#61. It is not without a purpose when a rich man greets a poor one with kindness.
Plautus
#62. A rich man's war and a poor man's fight ...
Shelby Foote
#63. Mr. Dowler, could you go through this? Mr. Algie. Don't answer him, Dowler; he's going beyond all bounds. Paul Ruttledge. I was a rich man and I could not, and yet I am something smaller than a camel, and this is something larger than a needle's eye.
W.B.Yeats
#64. A rich man is not a man without problems but a man whose faith has conquered the problems even when it's there.
Ikechukwu Izuakor
#65. The most expensive hobby a rich man could have is a boat, and the second most expensive hobby he could have is a very old house.
Barbara Corcoran
#66. Nobody wants to make me a rich man. In fact, most people want to make me a very poor man. I can guarantee some people fantasize at night about how poor they can make me.
James Altucher
#67. In Baby You're A Rich Man the point was, stop moaning, you're a rich man and we're all rich, heh heh, baby!
John Lennon
#68. Financially, I'm certainly not a rich man. I spent half my savings just to get on this ship, and by the time we drop anchor in Callao I'll have less than $2k to my name. At 31 years of age, that's nothing to boast about. But I can't say I'm all that worried.
Niall Doherty
#69. It is as necessary for a poor man to give away, as for a rich man. Many poor men are more devoted worshipers of Mammon than some rich men.
George MacDonald
#70. When golf used to be a rich man's sport, if you were poor you could not step foot on a course.
Shia Labeouf
#71. Pride in the case of a rich man is bad, but pride in the case of a poor man is worse.
Abu Bakr
#72. A rich man told me recently that a liberal is a man who tells other people what to do with their money.
Amiri Baraka
#73. Nothing humbles a rich man better than a poor man that isn't willing to do 'anything' for money.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#74. Inheritance taxes are so high that the happiest mourner at a rich man's funeral is usually Uncle Sam.
Olin Miller
#75. In a materialistic society, man is likely to value the opinion of a rich man over that of a poor one; even when coming to opinions that have absolutely nothing to do with moneymaking.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#76. The Bible says that it is hard for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of heaven. It doesn't say that it is impossible!
Jim Rohn
#77. I come from a really big family, my father was a businessman and what he always instilled in us was to be your own boss. My father built up his business, and he was by no means a rich man, but he figured out how to work four-and-a-half days a week.
Tony Shalhoub
#78. Whenever I find a great deal of gratitude in a poor man, I take it for granted there would be as much generosity if he were a rich man.
Alexander Pope
#79. Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with consequences and injurious to society and morality.
Lord Acton
#80. I told you again that you were the reason Adam ate the apple and its core. That when he left Eden, he left a rich man. Not only did he have Eve, but he had the taste of the first apple in the world in his mouth for the rest of his life.
Toni Morrison
#81. The man who lives for himself is a failure. Even if he gains much wealth, position or fortune, he is still a failure. The man who lives for others has achieved true success. A rich man who consecrates his wealth and his position to the good of humanity is a success.
Norman Vincent Peale
#82. It wasn't that I amassed it with aims of selling it and becoming a rich man. My personality demanded that I be surrounded by the best examples of the world's art.
Hermann Goring
#83. The answer to the prayer of a rich man is in the hands of the poor.
Felix Wantang
#84. New York makes even a rich man feel his unimportance. New York is cold, glittering, malign. The buildings dominate. There is a sort of atomic frenzy to the activity going on; the more furious the pace, the more diminished the spirit.
Henry Miller
#85. A rich man is an honest man
no thanks to him; for he would be a double knave, to cheat mankind when he had no need of it: he has no occasion to press upon his integrity, nor so much as to touch upon the borders of dishonesty.
Daniel Defoe
#86. Or, what does a poor man have, a rich man need, and you would die if you ate it? Stuff
R.J. Palacio
#87. There is no reason why a king should be rich or a rich man should be a king, no reason at all.
Gertrude Stein
#88. When a poor man gives something, that is a sacrifice indeed. When a rich man gives something, it hardly rises to the same level.
David Baldacci
#89. I wonder, James, whether it is not too easy for a rich man to despise money
Patrick O'Brian
#90. If you can actually count your money, then you're not a rich man.
J. Paul Getty
#91. 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.
Jesus Christ
#92. I still believe the lessons I learned when I was raised in a Roman Catholic household. Like, it's harder for a rich man to get into Heaven than for a camel to go through the eye of a needle.
Michael Moore
#94. the way a rich man was born was, is exactly the way a slave was born
Mariam
#95. There is no get-rich-quick scheme equal to a poor girl marrying a rich man.
E.W. Howe
#96. There are those who say that children make a rich man poor. No, they have it backward. Children make a poor man rich. A rich man can't take his riches to heaven, but I'm taking my children
Adrian Rogers
#97. It is easier for a cannibal to enter the Kingdom of Heaven through the eye of a rich man's needle that it is for any other foreigner to read the terrible German script.
Mark Twain
#98. Socrates may have thought himself to be the wisest in Athens, but King Solomon was the wisest in the world. With all his philosophy Socrates died a poor man, and with all his wisdom King Solomon died a rich man.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#99. I never met a rich man who was happy, but I have only very occasionally met a poor man who did not want to become a rich man.
Malcolm Muggeridge
