Top 100 Get Rich Sayings
#1. To people who want to be rich and famous, I'd say, "Get rich first and see if that doesn't cover it."
Bill Murray
#2. If you get rich in the name of the poor, fine and dandy. The problem is when you earn it. If you earn the money in the private sector by starting a business and hiring a lot of people, that's when you become the enemy.
Rush Limbaugh
#3. There is nothing so disturbing to one's well-being and judgment as to see a friend get rich
Charles P. Kindleberger
#4. Most people try to get rich by being cheap and the price for that is that you live cheap and there is so much money out there; why would you want to live cheap?
Robert Kiyosaki
#5. You don't get rich writing science fiction. If you want to get rich, you start a religion.
L. Ron Hubbard
#6. It was self-serving politicians who convinced recent generations of Americans that we could all stand in a circle with our hands in each other's pockets and somehow get rich.
Paul Harvey
#7. I see that the culture that is prevalent right now in Nigeria and indeed Africa is the culture of GET RICH QUICK.
Sunday Adelaja
#8. The game of speculation is the most uniformly fascinating game in the world. But it is not a game for the stupid, the mentally lazy, the person of inferior emotional balance, or the get-rich-quick adventurer. They will die poor.
Jesse Lauriston Livermore
#9. I never met a poor person who wanted to soak the rich; they want to get rich.
Jack Kemp
#10. My mother went to Radcliffe, and rather than just trying to get rich, she wanted to be a teacher and taught for over 30 years in the public schools. She's definitely got some war stories.
Ben Affleck
#11. I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that it's not the answer.
Jim Carrey
#12. We weren't idealistic about much, we children of the 1950s, but we were certainly idealistic about art. We went into it with the highest kind of ambition - not to get rich or to impress women, but to make our mark as Proust and Joyce had made their mark.
John Updike
#13. Those who invest only to get rich will fail. Those who invest to help others will probably succeed.
Arthur Fry
#14. What is your ambition in life today? Is it to get rich? Is it to make a name for yourself? Is it even to do some wonderful thing for God? Listen to me, beloved. The highest desire that can possess any human heart is a longing to see God.
J. Vernon McGee
#15. I don't believe in a law to prevent a man from getting rich; it would do more harm than good. So while we do not propose any war upon capital, we do wish to allow the humblest man an equal chance to get rich with everybody else.
Abraham Lincoln
#17. I would assume that there is a greater amount of joy for you in being able to write and help produce your own stuff and make a decent living, but not get rich versus always doing the other stuff that you don't write, and make more money.
Julie Delpy
#18. To get rich never risk your health. For it is the truth that health is the wealth of wealth.
Richard Baker
#19. These so-called entertainers get rich while the kids who emulate their lyrics and attitude destroy themselves.
Bill O'Reilly
#20. If you miss the bus, miss the train, you'd be left behind. So everyone says, let's get on the train, let's get on the bus and go faster and get rich ... I just didn't like that kind of lifestyle. I love to read books, to listen to music.
Haruki Murakami
#21. The ownership of money and property comes as a result of doing things in a certain way; those who do things in this Certain Way, whether on purpose or accidentally, get rich; while those who do not do things in this Certain Way, no matter how hard they work or how able they are, remain poor.
Wallace D. Wattles
#22. Get rich if you're looking for a woman, Get pious if you're looking for a wife
Boonaa Mohammed
#23. I found it easier to get rich than I did to make excuses.
Jim Rohn
#24. I've traveled all over the world and America is the easiest place to get rich.
Robert Kiyosaki
#25. If you're in it because you love it and you have to do it, that's the right reason. If you're in it because you want to get rich or famous, don't do it. People often say that my first years in Nashville, when I wasn't getting anything cut, were tough. Hell, those were great years.
Kris Kristofferson
#26. Enriching others is the only way to get rich, if that is what we desire. The more we serve, the more we deserve, getting what we give, no more and no less.
Ernie J Zelinski
#27. What are the odds that people will make smart decisions about money if they don't need to make smart decisions
if they can get rich making dumb decisions? The incentives on Wall Street were all wrong; they're still all wrong.
Michael Lewis
#28. If you ever get rich and famous, by definition you are special. You have done something special, and therefore you start to behave special. Then if the floor drops out, and you become down and out, you have a really new perspective.
Danny Bonaduce
#29. I don't know why anyone wants to get married," said Burke. "I think the whole thing was cooked up by lawyers so they can get rich off of divorce.
Michael Thomas Ford
#30. Very, very few entrepreneurs who accept a 51 percent partner in a new venture will get rich if they are also expected to run it. Control is mandatory.
Felix Dennis
#31. I'm always happy when actors get rich, because the odds on it are so long!
Bill Nighy
#32. There's only 1 way to get rich, quick! But not through a get rich quick scheme. There's a difference.
Jordan Belfort
#33. Buying coffee on the street instead of in a Starbucks is the poor man's way to get rich. In other words, you will never get rich by scratching out ten cents from your dollar.
James Altucher
#34. What's the subject of life - to get rich? All of those fellows out there getting rich could be dancing around the real subject of life.
Paul A. Volcker
#35. The rich continue to get rich the same way they always have - by understanding how money works and making their money work for them.
Robert Kiyosaki
#36. One of the Great Rules of Economics According to John Green
If you are rich, you have to be an idiot not to stay rich. And if you are poor, you have to be really smart to get rich.
John Green
#37. The payouts for starting a business are just terrible when you account for risk. A tiny minority of entrepreneurs ever get rich. And the majority of entrepreneurs would probably make far more money, and have more stable personal relationships, if they just worked for someone else.
Michael Arrington
#38. I think that most Americans don't resent people for getting rich. They want to get rich themselves.
Barack Obama
#39. No matter whether you are a physician, a teacher, or a clergyman, if you can give increase of life to others and make them sensible of that fact, they will be attracted to you, and you will get rich.
Wallace D. Wattles
#40. Every other start-up wants to be another United or Delta or American. We just want to get rich.
Robert L. Priddy
#41. I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes to get rich by credit, to get knowledge by raps on midnight tables, to learn the economy of the mind by phrenology, or skill without study, or mastery without apprenticeship.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#42. In a socialist country you can get rich by providing necessities, while in a capitalist country you can get rich by providing luxuries.
Nora Ephron
#43. Well, you know, in America everybody is interested in making the dollar fast. In Yugoslavia no matter how much you hustle you're not going to get rich, so you might as well play chess.
Bobby Fischer
#44. Get rich. Live life to the fullest. Destroy the world.
Andrew Durbin
#45. Book writing is not a get-rich-quick scheme. Anyone who decides to write a book must expect to invest a lot of time and effort without any guarantee of success. Books do not write themselves and they do not sell themselves. Authors write and promote their books.
Dan Poynter
#46. Keep a government poor and weak and it's your servant; let it get rich and powerful and it's your master.
H. Beam Piper
#47. I hope everybody could get rich and famous ...
Jim Carrey
#48. If you want to get rich with a tax free enterprise that sells nothing, start a church.
Bill Maher
#49. I love making money, but you can't live your life waiting to get rich in a job that no longer feeds you artistically.
Julianna Margulies
#50. We work our whole lives trying to get rich so we can impress the world with our fancy houses and cars, but in the end it doesn't matter how much money we make. What matters most are the choices we make, and unfortunately I made some very bad choices.
J.S. Bailey
#51. One bulls-eye and you're rich and famous. The rich get more famous and the famous get rich. You're the talk of the town ... The sense of so much depending on success is very hard to ignore, perhaps impossible. It leads to disproportionate anxiety and disproportionate relief or disappointment.
Tom Stoppard
#52. Following what everyone else is doing is rarely a way to get rich.
Jim Rogers
#53. Some people get rich studying artificial intelligence. I make money studying natural stupidity.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#54. We're working-class people, which means we don't get rich or have maids. Be content with what you are and what you have.
Colleen McCullough
#55. How to get rich ... whenever I meet people, that's usually what they want to know from me. You ask a banker how he makes bread. You ask a billionaire how he makes money.
Donald Trump
#56. You get rich because you do things most people will not do. Success requires sacrifice. You must be willing to make those sacrifices.
Robert Kiyosaki
#57. Don't live beyond your means. Don't buy more than you can pay for. Don't expect to get rich quick. And don't confuse salesmen for friends or advisers.
Charley Reese
#58. If you wish to get rich, save what you get. A fool can earn money; but it takes a wise man to save and dispose of it to his own advantage.
Brigham Young
#59. You can get rich making fun of me. I know. I've made lots of money making fun of me.
Glenn Beck
#60. We want everybody to get rich. The Republican Party is often called unloving, uncaring, not generous, or whatever - that's a bunch of baloney. We're the party that believes in free markets.
Dave Brat
#61. This is one of the most important moments in your life. Nothing will ever be the same. We might get rich. We might get killed. We might just have an adventure or lean something. But we have been changed. We are standing close the Heraclitean fire, feeling its heat on our faces.
Neal Stephenson
#62. You don't get rich off your day job, you get rich off your homework.
Daymond John
#63. Feed the poor and get rich or feed the rich and get poor.
Colonel Sanders
#64. Do all the work you can do, every day, and do each piece of work in a perfectly successful manner; put the power of success, and the purpose to get rich, into everything that you do.
Wallace D. Wattles
#65. Get rich or die tryin'.
50 Cent
#66. Partying is not a sane way to spend money, but it's fun. When we were young, we did not have a lot of money at all, so I thought, 'If I ever get rich, I'm not going to become one of those boring rich people who doesn't spend money.'
Markus Persson
#67. In the past, the only way to get rich was to beat everyone else in your industry. Now, it's possible to get rich by making other people rich at the same time. It's the preferred method for 'millionaires next door,' and it's the method we advocate in Real Wealth Solutions.
Kevin J. Donaldson
#68. Get rich or die trying
50 Cent
#69. I think I shall write books, and get rich and famous, that would suit me, so that is my favorite dream.
Louisa May Alcott
#70. If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by persons who move their lips when they're reading to themselves.
Don Marquis
#72. I never wanted to be famous. It was amusing at first, but now I hate it. I just wanted to be respected by people I respect. And I wanted to be rich. It's best to get rich, then you can do what you want.
Caitlin Moran
#73. If you want to get rich on the outside, then become rich on the inside first. You will reap on the outside what you sow on the inside.
Jeanette Coron
#74. What conclusion is to be drawn from this paradox so worthy of being born in our time; and what will become of virtue when one has to get rich at all cost?
The ancient political thinkers forever spoke of morals and of virtue; ours speak only of commerce and money.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#75. In England, at least, corruption only became unfashionable (and in fact only started to be called "corruption") when there started to be other, faster ways to get rich.
Paul Graham
#76. Being an # entrepreneur is not a get-rich scheme; it takes # strength of character to keep going.
Robert Kiyosaki
#77. My job is making money, helping other people make money. I am spending money, trying to make sure more people get rich, because you cannot spend a lot of money, right? So my job is spending money, helping others. This is a headache.
Jack Ma
#78. Never before have so many people tripped over one another in their eagerness to get rich and thereby impaled themselves on the consequences of their own greed. The greatest irony of it all is that it's done in the name of contentment
N. T. Wright
#79. You don't expect your readers to go, "Ah this book's not just a fine work of literary whatshisname, but also a get-rich-quick scheme," to be followed shortly by a go-to-prison-quick scheme, which I believe he did. Are
Neil Gaiman
#80. People who don't get rich are lazy or just have other priorities.
Sergey Galitsky
#81. 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.
Jim Carrey
#82. It is a natural law that like causes always produce like effects; and, therefore, any man or woman who learns to do things in this certain way will infallibly get rich.
Wallace D. Wattles
#83. You'll be enlightened about how you can alter what you think, feel and believe about money in order to "Get Rich Savvy Chick.
Lorene Collier Purcy
#84. I didn't get rich and famous, but I do what I love.
Ron Shock
#85. You will do well not to write for money, not because you won't get rich doing it, but because writing fueled by that sort of motivation becomes dull and lifeless and mediocre.
Joyce Rachelle
#86. When we opened Disneyland, a lot of people got the impressions that it was a get-rich-quick thing, but they didn't realize that behind Disneyland was this great organization that I built here at the Studio, and they all got into it and we were doing it because we loved to do it.
Walt Disney
#87. You can't get rich sitting on the bench.
Phil Linz
#89. There is nothing admirable about being obedient to a system that doesn't serve you. The present system we endure day in, day out is designed to turn us against each other while a minority of people get rich off our backs, destroying the planet in the process.
Rupert Dreyfus
#90. Get-rich-quick schemes are for the lazy & unambitious. Respect your dreams enough to pay the full price for them.
Steve Maraboli
#93. In his heart everyone knows that the only people who get rich from the "get rich quick" books are those who write them.
Richard M. Nixon
#94. I have to be grateful to our society here in China, grateful to the economic reforms for letting me get rich, and grateful for the efforts of my staff. If there had been no reforms, I would have been a farmer.
Chen Guangbiao
#95. It's very hard to get rich and famous at a young age and handle it well.
Randy Newman
#96. There are two ways to get rich. Either get more, or want less.
Thor Duffin
#97. We weren't trying to just go public and get rich. There was no near-term thing. It always was this many-decades thing where there were no shortcuts and we'd sort of put one foot in front of the other.
Bill Gates
#98. What is the chief end of man?-to get rich. In what way?-dishonestly if we can; honestly if we must. Who is God, the one and only true? Money is God. Gold and Greenbacks and Stock-father, son, and ghosts of same, three persons in one; These are the true and only God, mighty and supreme.
Mark Twain
#99. People see owning a gallery as a way to get rich. I never thought that I could get rich in the art world. I wanted a life in art. I wanted to live with artists. I wanted to make beautiful shows.
Arne Glimcher
#100. Always remember the famous adage about the movie business: You can't make a living, you can only get rich.
Lynda Obst
