Top 100 Quotes About Rich People
#1. The sad fact is that people are poor because they have not yet decided to be rich. People are overweight and unfit because they have not yet decided to be thin and fit. People are inefficient time wasters because they haven't yet decided to be highly productive in everything they do.
Brian Tracy
#2. The law," he continued, "is made by the rich people so that the poor people can't get ahead ...
Walter Mosley
#3. Rich people think long-term. They balance their spending on enjoyment today with investing for freedom tomorrow.
T. Harv Eker
#4. Well, first of all, what we [in USA] need to understand is the middle class is what makes us different and exceptional. Every country has rich people, but what has made us different throughout history is that we have this broad-based vibrant middle class.
Marco Rubio
#5. The Clintons want to do big worthy things, but they also want to squeeze money from rich people wherever they live on planet Earth, insatiably gobbling up cash for politics and charity and themselves from the same incestuous swirl.
Maureen Dowd
#6. Rich people are committed to being rich. Poor people want to be rich.
T. Harv Eker
#7. One of the reasons I got really fat when I left home was because I thought rich people ate white bread and Spam. I also thought they could get processed meals, because we never did, so that was exciting.
Alison Moyet
#8. I'll just come right out and say it, rich people have no imagination. They can't even scratch their own asses without a ruler and a flashlight.
Haruki Murakami
#9. One is shy of asking men under sentence what they have been sentenced for; and in the same way it is awkward to ask very rich people what they want so much money for, why they make such a poor use of their wealth, why they don't give it up, even when they see in it their unhappiness;
Anton Chekhov
#10. So rich people could go slumming? Come on, give me a break [it's a] masturbatory fantasy for Anna Wintour and Vogue. They always go and try to co-opt what they can't own. They try to co-opt authenticity and turn it into something boring.
Legs McNeil
#11. Most rich people are the poorest people I know.
Elsa Maxwell
#12. Rich people do this. They have the power and they see no reason not to use it. Men and women are just merchandise, like everything else. Store them, freight them, decant them. Sign at the bottom, please. On
Richard K. Morgan
#13. Rich people collect land. Poor people collect bills.
T. Harv Eker
#14. Rich people's garbage was every year more complex, rife with hybrid materials, impurities, impostors. Planks that looked like wood were shot through with plastic. How was he to classify a loofah? The owners of the recycling plants demanded waste that was all one thing, pure.
Katherine Boo
#15. Tourism has affected Cuba, because tourists come and they bring racist, sexist ideas. They bring a whole vision that there are rich people all over the world and that's the way it should be.
Assata Shakur
#16. If lying was an asset, the world would have been full of rich people
Thabiso Monkoe
#17. If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed.
Vaclav Havel
#19. I do not use words like liberal or conservative. You can ask me a question and I will give you an answer. Those are words rich people on television use to divide and conquer.
Charles Barkley
#20. The people who get their portraits painted-rich people-they want to look good.
Claudia Gray
#21. The main message of Climate Revolution is that climate change is caused by the rotten financial system we've got, designed to create poverty and rip off any profits for a small amount of rich people. Meanwhile, it destroys the earth.
Vivienne Westwood
#22. There always seem to be very rich people, no matter how poor the country, Thenoclon said.
Andrew Ashling
#24. Rich people think BIG. Poor people think small.
T. Harv Eker
#25. And gradually his face assumed the expressions which are so often found among rich people - the expressions of discontent, of sickliness, of displeasure, of idleness, of lovelessness. Slowly the soul sickness of the rich crept over him.
Hermann Hesse
#26. There's a common perception, partially true, that rich people are above the law. It's true for a lot of us, but I have a feeling my notoriety could work against me. I'm the kind of guy prosecutors like to stick a case to. And I've got a dirty past.
Ella James
#27. As long as there are rich people who have poor people they can send to fight their wars.. We will never have peace
Chris Crass
#28. Rich people never go to war. You ask a college kid to go to war, and he's like, 'Umm, I'm taking this sociology class, and I think war is, like, really stupid, and my roommate's, like, half Afghani, so it's going to cause some static.'
Bill Burr
#29. Rich people (in Australia) have swimming pools in their gardens but, at least, they do swim in them.
George Mikes
#30. I think media has lost its way. We must recognize that the proprietors of these organizations have put on a form of censorship. Basically, they're more interested in celebrity, narcissism, rich people, good-looking people, and successful sportsmen.
Don McCullin
#31. Rich people always have a certain degree of debt. Apparently it helps to reduce taxes. I'm not so hot on the bean-counting side.
Felix Dennis
#32. I want people to go into space, to orbit around the world a few times, even to stay there for 24 hours and then come back to where they took off. And I also want people with a low income to be able to do that, not only rich people.
Buzz Aldrin
#33. You rich people are all the same. You couldn't care less about the other half of the world. They can all starve to death for all you care!
Sally Wentworth
#34. Everybody else, including the rich people, are willing to pay more. They want to pay more.
Harry Reid
#35. With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches.
Adam Smith
#36. Rich People are students throughout their life. Poor People's learning stops after formal education.
Abhishek Kumar
#37. Rich people have small TVs, small cars, but big libraries.
Manoj Arora
#38. Rich people in poor places want to show off their wealth. And their less affluent counterparts feel pressure to fake it, at least in public. Nobody wants the stigma of being thought poor.
Virginia Postrel
#39. We are giving away the country so a few very rich people can get richer.
Virgil Goode
#40. My wife is always by far the best-dressed person anywhere we go. And remember, we are surrounded by rich people who can afford to buy £20,000 gowns.
Leon Max
#41. You meet rich people and you hang around with them, and one night they've had a few drinks and they say 'I'll buy it!' Then they tell their friends, 'You must have this person's work, darling,' and that's all you need. That's all it takes. Get it?
Andy Warhol
#42. Poor people have the blues because they're poor and hungry. Rich people can't sleep at night because they're trying to hold on to their money and everything they have.
John Lee Hooker
#43. Rich people focus on what they want, while poor people focus on what they don't want.
T. Harv Eker
#45. We have a new generation of very rich people who want to do more with their money than buy a lot of expensive toys. They want to live meaningful lives.
Peter Singer
#46. I was very much an only child who was raised by the television and movies, and I grew up in New York. We weren't, like, rich people, but we were middle-class people and my parents supported this love I had for entertainment.
Billy Eichner
#47. Rich people, God bless us. We deserve all the opportunities to make sure our country and our blessings continue to the next generation.
Hillary Clinton
#48. I have come to realize that truly rich people are rich not because they are frugal or they chose to be frugal, but because they are so grateful, contented and full of self-worth that they don't have to prove anything to anyone with material possessions. This way, they appear frugal.
Jan Mckingley Hilado
#49. Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.
Jack Paar
#51. Everyone has the pushed and prodded and tugged look that rich people have, like they're just giant pieces of taffy, ready to be molded.
Lauren Oliver
#52. Rich people, they stay out of jail not just because they have more money but because they grew up in a culture where they're educated by people to say, "I don't have to talk to the cops. If I get arrested, I'm not going to say a word to them. I'm just going to wait until my family lawyer gets here".
Immortal Technique
#53. You can't have personal investors anymore because it's too expensive, so you have to have corporate investment or a lot of rich people.
Stephen Sondheim
#54. Obama seems to want to do something to damage rich people.
George P. Shultz
#55. The trouble is that rich people, well-to-do people, very often don't really know who the poor are; and that is why we can forgive them, for knowledge can only lead to love, and love to service. And so, if they are not touched by them, it's because they do not know them
Mother Teresa
#56. America's political landscape is infested with many zombie ideas - beliefs about policy that have been repeatedly refuted with evidence and analysis but refuse to die. The most prominent zombie is the insistence that low taxes on rich people are the key to prosperity.
Paul Krugman
#57. Couture was only for rich people. Givenchy was for rich people. A bag cost 5,000 euro; a coat cost 10,000 euro. In the beginning, I couldn't react. I was just working like a machine, because I wanted to make the house happy.
Riccardo Tisci
#58. 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
#59. Rich people in one country don't act the same as rich people in another country.
Kenneth Langone
#60. I don't understand why very, very rich people want to have even more money than they've already got.
John Cleese
#61. When I was a kid, I believed in Santa Claus. But it was very tough because in the Dominican ... there are not a lot of rich people there.
Alfonso Soriano
#62. Portland is quickly becoming one of those lovely, lush Third World countries where kinda-rich people retire with their money.
Chuck Palahniuk
#63. 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
#64. My brother is a tax guy, and the way I look at it, it's like he's spending his life saving money for rich people. So I think making strangers laugh, at least having a creative component to your profession, is more manageable for me. I can live with that a lot easier.
Gary Gulman
#65. Morals are like social classes, there are poor and rich people.
Eyden I.
#66. Most people struggle financially because they take advice from sales people, not rich people.
Robert Kiyosaki
#67. Rich people play the money game to win. Poor people play the money game to not lose.
T. Harv Eker
#68. Rich people choose to get paid based on results. Poor people choose to get paid based on time.
T. Harv Eker
#69. Most rich people have a gangster in their ancestry somewhere.
Ken Follett
#70. No matter where you are on politics, I think it is wonderful to see candidates funding campaigns not by talking to a very small number of very rich people, but by reaching out to a very large number of citizens.
David Brooks
#71. America has become the most unequal society among advanced countries, and rich people are now free to spend as much money on political campaigns as they wish.
Robert Reich
#72. The interesting thing about class warfare is that it's only class warfare if it's up, not down. If you talk about welfare cheats or something, that's not class warfare because it's down; you have to talk about rich people before it's class warfare.
Calvin Trillin
#73. Rich people take advice from people who are richer than they are. Poor people take advice from their friends, who are just as broke as they are.
T. Harv Eker
#74. Poor people choose now. Rich people choose balance.
T. Harv Eker
#75. Rich people ... take responsibility for the results in their lives and act upon the mind-set "It will work because I'll make it work."
T. Harv Eker
#76. You can go into Mark Twain's material and prove anything you want. He was against war. He was for war. He was against rich people and he was for them. He was a kaleidoscope.
Hal Holbrook
#77. We all either work for rich people or we sell stuff to rich people. So just punishing rich people is as bad for the economy as punishing anyone. Let's not punish anyone. Let's keep taxes low and let's cut spending.
Rand Paul
#78. Rich people admire other rich and successful people. Poor people resent rich and successful people.
T. Harv Eker
#79. In aristocratic societies, rich people used to commission exquisite paintings for their walls.
Brad Holland
#80. Socially prominent people are very fond of disease, because it gives them a chance to have these really elaborate charity functions, and the newspaper headlines say 'EVENING IN PARIS BALL RAISES MONEY TO FIGHT GOUT' instead of 'RICH PEOPLE AMUSE THEMSELVES'.
Dave Barry
#81. If there is one thing I know, it is this, rich people are remarkably unremarkable.
Brian Tracy
#82. I want to be a politician. I think I understand how the system works, I think a lot of politicians are corrupt, and it's about time we put some people in there who are going to look out for the majority of the people instead of the rich people.
Charles Barkley
#83. The two most dangerous things in the world are rich people and crazy people. The Roanokes are rich like pharoahs and crazier'n a snake-fucking baby.
Warren Ellis
#84. Father,' he asked, 'are rich people stronger than anyone else on earth?' 'Yes Ilusha,' I said, 'there are no people on earth stronger than the rich.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#85. I'm against an income tax because all the rich people hire lawyers and accountants to be sure that they don't pay income tax.
Ann Richards
#86. The primary difference between rich people and poor people is how they handle fear
Robert Kiyosaki
#88. What happens when you put all your money into your home? Everybody's going to want to move in, whereas rich people set money off for their great-great grandkids. They got money that's circling for itself.
Redman
#89. Every country has rich people. But only a few places have achieved a vibrant and stable middle class. And in the history of the world, none has been more vibrant and more stable than the American middle class.
Marco Rubio
#90. Rich people can be generous, even the ones with bloodcurdling political views can be generous, but most believe in generosity on their own terms, and underneath (not so deep, either), they're always afraid someone is going to steal their presents and eat their birthday cake.
Stephen King
#91. Fish have got to swim. Birds have got to fly, and Clintons have to run for office. It's what they do. It's a metabolic urge. That's all they've done their entire life is borrow money from rich people to seek public office.
George Will
#92. You know what's wrong with scientific power? It's a form of inherited wealth. And you know what assholes congenitally rich people are.
Michael Crichton
#93. I hate almost all rich people, but I think I'd be darling at it.
Dorothy Parker
#94. Rich people associate with positive, successful people. Poor people associate with negative or unsuccessful people.
T. Harv Eker
#95. I've always loathed rich people, so I've become who I've loathed, which makes it doubly difficult, if you can follow me.
Larry David
#96. The amassing of unfettered wealth of individuals and corporations should stop. The inheritance of rich people's wealth by their children should stop. The expropriators should have their wealth expropriated and redistributed.
Arundhati Roy
#97. I have nothing against rich people. In fact, I've been struggling most of my life to join them.
Walter E. Williams
#98. When you have the medical advances you think will they be available to everyone. Will they not just be for the rich world or even just the rich people and the rich world? Will they be for the world at large?
Bill Gates
#99. 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
#100. Violence against women in this country is not levied against just Democrats, but Republicans as well ... not just rich people or poor people. It knows no gender, it knows no ethnicity, it knows nothing.
Gwen Moore
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