Top 100 Being Rich Quotes
#1. Being rich and famous isn't all happiness and at times the pressures have got to me.
Frida Lyngstad
#2. I was obsessed with being rich and famous.
Paul Lynde
#3. Always remember that there are more important things than being rich.
Robert Gardner
#4. Being rich means seeing all that's ugly and having the arrogance to think you can change things. All you have to do is pay for it.
Gregoire Delacourt
#5. Rich people are just people," said Mma Ramotswe. "I have not met a rich person yet who isn't just the same as us. Being happy or unhappy has nothing to do with being rich.
Alexander McCall Smith
#6. Abundance is about being rich, with or without money.
Suze Orman
#7. The best thing about being rich is the freedom; freedom to do whatever you want whenever you want. It doesn't suck.
Tommy Lee
#8. I always want to say to people who want to be rich and famous: 'try being rich first'. See if that doesn't cover most of it. There's not much downside to being rich, other than paying taxes and having your relatives ask you for money. But when you become famous, you end up with a 24-hour job.
Bill Murray
#9. I like rap music. But bragging about being rich to poor people is really offensive. I want to hear a rap song about buying a Cy Twombly painting or dating a museum curator. I want to hear about that kind of rich.
John Waters
#10. Being rich and famous seems to have its ups and downs. That's the price you pay for being troubadours and clowns.
Jimmy Buffett
#11. Modernity needs to understand that being rich and becoming rich are not mathematically, personally, socially, and ethically the same thing.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#12. I don't care what anyone says. Being rich is a good thing.
Mark Cuban
#13. You should never value people according to the size of their bank balances. Being poor does not make them bad and being rich does not make them good
Jackie Ballard
#14. To you, being rich might mean owning a goat farm in South Carolina. For your best friend, it might mean being able to start her own business selling wine over the Internet. Whatever the case, youre probably not motivated by the money itself, but by what the money could let you be and do.
J.D. Roth
#15. Constantly having to think about money is not nice. People used to say, 'Being rich doesn't make you happy'. And I'd think, 'I've got no electricity, nothing - tell that to my empty fridge'.
Rebecca Ferguson
#16. I thought about Vic being rich. She already had the fuck-you attitude; fuck-you money might be too much.
Craig Johnson
#17. Still, I could not imagine how being poor could be worse than being rich and hating yourself. I had seen enough of what it was like to be dead. It was time to try living.
James Patrick Kelly
#18. Interesting thing about being rich is once you pay your taxes, you're still rich.
Lewis Black
#19. You might not make it to the top, but if you are doing what you love, there is much more happiness there than being rich or famous.
Tony Hawk
#20. Today our youth is preoccupied with being rich and famous but is truly missing something. Sadly ... even money won't last if you're not educated. Knowledge Is Everything!
Timothy Pina
#21. Being rich isn't about money. Being rich is a state of mind. Some of us, no matter how much money we have, will never be free enough to take time to stop and eat the heart of the watermelon. And some of us will be rich without ever being more than a paycheck ahead of the game.
Harvey MacKay
#22. Boys, I have been rich and I have been poor, and believe me being rich is better.
Joe E. Lewis
#23. [W]hat I like best is staying home and reading. Being rich is not about how many homes you own. It's the freedom to pick up any book you want without looking at the price and wondering whether you can afford it.
John Waters
#24. Do you like being rich?"
"Yes. Show me someone who doesn't," he says darkly.
E.L. James
#25. For me this was never a money issue, it was about being rich in your heart. To come home, and to be in the place where your dream first started, 15 minutes away from where my grandfather built my first basketball court, is a dream come true.
Baron Davis
#26. Being poor is like being a child. Being rich is like being an adult: you get to do whatever you want. Everyone is nice when they have to be; rich people are nice when they feel like it.
Fran Lebowitz
#27. I cannot tell you ... how to be rich. But I can tell you how to feel rich, which is far better, let me tell you firsthand, than being rich. Be grateful ... It is the only totally reliable get rich quick scheme.
Ben Stein
#28. Being rich is having money; being wealthy is having time.
Stephen Swid
#29. Being rich and famous has never been my goal at all. I love to act and I want to be able to do really great parts.
Jenn Proske
#30. What's keeping you from being rich? In most cases it's simply a lack of belief. In order to become rich, you must believe you can do it, and you must take the actions necessary to achieve your goal.
Suze Orman
#31. Difference between being Rich and Being Wealthy? Time ... Nothing is more important than TIME ... can't buy it back ever.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#32. Don't you know that a man being rich is like a girl being pretty? You wouldn't marry a girl just because she's pretty, but my goodness, doesn't it help?
Marilyn Monroe
#33. Happiness doesn't come from being rich, nor merely from being successful in your career, nor by self-indulgence. One step towards happiness is to make yourself healthy and strong while you are a boy so that you can be useful and so you can enjoy life when you are a man.
Robert Baden-Powell
#34. I think people's perception of a rich girl is literal, but metaphorically I embrace it as being rich in love, spirit, joy and religion. So it's not about money.
Angie Stone
#36. It's not about being liberal or conservative, it's about being human.
It's not about being rich or poor, it's about being alive and happy.
It's not about being right, it's about being considerate and compassionate.
Karen L. Syed
#37. I love being single. It's almost like being rich.
Sue Grafton
#38. Being rich is not about how much money you have or how many homes you own; it's the freedom to buy any book you want without looking at the price and wondering if you can afford it.
John Waters
#39. Being rich ain't what it's cracked up to be. It's just worry and worry, and sweat and sweat, and a-wishing you was dead all the time.
Mark Twain
#40. If you want to change who you are, begin by changing the size of your dream. Even if you are broke, it does not cost you anything to dream of being rich. Many poor people are poor because they have given up on dreaming.
Robert Kiyosaki
#41. It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.
Logan Pearsall Smith
#42. Celebrity doesn't have anything to do with art or craft. It's about being rich and thinking that you're better than everybody else.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
#43. Americans have so far put up with inequality because they felt they could change their status. They didn't mind others being rich, as long as they had a path to move up as well. The American Dream is all about social mobility in a sense - the idea that anyone can make it.
Fareed Zakaria
#44. He never had anything for all of his life, and regarded being rich as akin to living full time on the moon, but suddenly he felt as though he was the wealthiest man on Earth.
Sarah Noffke
#45. The key to happiness is not being rich; it's doing something arduous and creating something of value and then being able to reflect on the fruits of your labor.
Arthur C. Brooks
#46. Being rich is an obstacle to loving. When you are rich, you want to continue to be rich, and so you end up devoting all your time, all your energy, in your daily life to stay rich.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#47. I think there are different kinds of fame. There's fame which is plastic and about paparazzi and money and being rich, and then there's the fame, which is when no one knows who you are but everyone wants to know who you are.
Lady Gaga
#48. Ravana all your wealth is wasted, what's the use of being rich if you won't spend your gold to do good for other people?
William Buck
#49. Being rich and coming from a distinguished family background doesn't guarantee happiness, Abby. In fact, it might make happiness harder to find because you have to live up to akk that expectation.
V.C. Andrews
#50. As the global powers diverge and Europe is caught in the middle, the lack of hard power will matter more and more. Being rich and weak is a dangerous combination. Europe therefore lives in a world of wolves.
George Friedman
#51. Being rich means you get to worry about everything except money.
Johnny Cash
#53. It's not about being rich, but everyone back home has a pool. And I was a total water baby. My mom couldn't get me out - she'd put my dinner plate at the end of the pool, and I'd eat my meals in the water.
Margot Robbie
#54. When a rich man dies it is more complex than when a poor man dies. A rich man doesn't simply quit living. He quits being rich, too.
Elliott Chaze
#55. The happiest people, the ones you like the most, they're never worried about being rich.
Vince Staples
#56. Rich people are committed to being rich. Poor people want to be rich.
T. Harv Eker
#57. Anne is very forgiving. She doesn't care about money, being rich, or clothes. We never argued about finances.
Jerry Stiller
#58. The paradox of money is that when you have lots of it you can manage life quite cheaply. Nothing so economical as being rich.
Robertson Davies
#59. The hard part was living the contrast between being rich and being broke. It was like being smart, and waking up one day to find yourself dumb as a rock, but able to remember your former brains.
John Elder Robison
#60. The great thing about being rich is, you can embrace practices that kill the poor - that's what socialism does.
Greg Gutfeld
#62. The price you pay for being powerful and being rich is to be hated.
Malcolm Muggeridge
#63. I appreciated being rich because it allowed me to study in Paris and Geneva.
John Kendrew
#64. There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich Under a picture of a mom holding a baby
Marlene Dietrich
#65. There are two ways of being rich - have a lot, or want very little. The latter way is the easier for most.
Billy Graham
#66. 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
#67. Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn't enough and you have to go and get shot or something.
John Lennon
#68. It dawns on me that most people would probably be happy with my weekend. I just won five million dollars. But one of the strange things about being rich as shit is five million's just not that exciting.
Ella James
#69. Being rich has never stopped anyone from being greedy.
Tami Hoag
#70. 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
#71. Being tired isn't the same as being rich, but most times it's close enough.
Chuck Palahniuk
#72. There's a difference between being posh and being rich.
Kate Reardon
#73. 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.
Anton Du Beke
#74. The wretchedness of being rich is that you live with rich people. To suppose, as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave as the rich behave, is like supposing that we could drink all day and stay sober.
-Logan Pearsall Smith (1865-1946) US-English essayist, editor, anthologist
Logan Pearsall Smith
#75. There aren't many downsides to being rich, other than paying taxes and having relatives asking for money. But being famous, that's a 24 hour job right there.
Bill Murray
#76. I suppose that the main benefit of being rich (over just being independent) is to be able to despise rich people (a good concentration of whom you find in glitzy ski resorts) without any sour grapes. It is even sweeter when these farts don't know that you are richer than they are.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#77. So thou being rich in Will add to thy Will
One will of mine to make thy large Will more.
Let no unkind, no fair beseechers kill;
Think all but one, and me in that one, Will
William Shakespeare
#78. Don't you ever mind," she asked suddenly, "not being rich enough to buy all the books you want?
Edith Wharton
#79. I don't mean I'd mind being rich and famous. That's very much on my schedule, and someday I'll try to get around to it; but if it happens, I'd like to have my ego tagging along. I want to still be me when I wake up one fine morning and have breakfast at Tiffany's.
Truman Capote
#80. Richard didn't mind Gwyn being rich ... Having always been poor was good preparation for being rich. Better than having always been rich ... The well and all its sweet water would surely one day run dry.
Martin Amis
#81. These people seemed so enwrapped in snobbishness and the glory of being rich that they had no art sense whatever.
Isadora Duncan
#83. We reward people a lot for being rich, for being famous, for being cute, for being thin ... one of the values I think we need to instill in our country, in our children, is a sense of 'usefulness', in other words, are we useful, are we making other peoples' lives a little bit better?
Barack Obama
#84. I think it's misleading to think that art is only there for escapism, only there for our dreams of being rich and f - king whoever we wanna f - k.
Saul Williams
#85. Being rich and miserable has got to be better than poor and unhappy.
Anne Robinson
#86. So for most people, the reason they don't win financially is because the fear of losing money is far greater than the joy of being rich.
Robert T. Kiyosaki
#87. 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
#88. She had to remind herself that she was in recovery from being rich.
Suzanne Stroh
#89. One thing I know about the rich, being rich, is that you can take money from me and tomorrow, I'm still going to be rich.
Lewis Black
#90. I wish everyone could experience being rich and famous, so they'd see it wasn't the answer to anything.
Jim Carrey
#91. For me, that's the definition of being rich: it doesn't cross your mind to mention it to your best friend. And money is such a given you don't care how you come by it.
Andre Agassi
#92. Annie taught me that orphanages were a blast and being rich is the only thing that matters. Grease taught me being in a gang is nonstop fun and you need to dress sexier to have any chance of keeping a guy interested.
Amy Poehler
#93. I was born with no money. So when people talk about Bow Wow being rich his whole life, I don't know where they get that.
Bow Wow
#94. We can help many people suffer less and realize a lot of happiness without being rich or influential. If love and compassion are in out hearts, every thought, word, and deed can bring about a miracle
Nhat Hanh
#95. Being rich is living life on your own terms - according to your possibilities, not your limitations.
Paul McKenna
#96. You know, Saudi Arabia has a lot of poverty also. Regardless about what you hear about the viceroy and people being rich, et cetera.
Al-Waleed Bin Talal
#97. People think that being famous is just about having your picture taken all the time and being rich rich rich, and you know what? ... They're absolutely right.
Madonna Ciccone
#98. Having extreme physical beauty presented a problem similar to being rich: it was difficult to know if people loved you for the person you were inside.
Greg Mongrain
#99. For you cannot live in New York City very long and not be conscious of the niceties of being rich - the city is, after all, an ecstatic exercise in merchandising - and one evening of his visit to Venezuela Sutherland sat straight up when he read a line of Santayana's: Money is the petrol of life.
Andrew Holleran
#100. Being rich is a good thing. Not just in the obvious sense of benefitting you and your family, but in the broader sense. Profits are not a zero sum game. The more you make, the more of a financial impact you can have.
Mark Cuban
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