Quotes About Wealthy

#1. If you have nothing to do, look at yourself and see if there isn't something close at hand that you can improve. It may make you wealthy, although it is more likely it will make you happy.

George Matthew Adams

#2. The real reason to oppose increasing tax rates on the wealthy is that it's a good bet they could do more to help the economy if they keep their money rather than have their earnings confiscated by the government and spent on another round of stimulus.

Terry Savage

#3. A wealthy man can preserve his wealth only by continuing to serve the consumers in the most efficient way.

Ludwig Von Mises

#4. A poor fisherman who knows the beauties of the misty mornings is much richer than a wealthy man who sleeps till noon in his palace!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#5. If you come from a wealthy country with open borders, unless you seriously believe you can kill, imprison or occupy all your enemies, you have to make a world with more friends and fewer enemies - with more partners and fewer terrorists.

William J. Clinton

#6. It was then that I came to an important realization:as long as someone is beautiful,thin,wealthy,fun-loving or talented,we are happy to accept him or her at face value.We are not ever taught to look for-or care about-what lies beneath the surface.

Na'ima B. Robert

#7. The foundations set up as tax shelters by the wealthy tended to spend as much money glorifying the donors' names and providing cushy jobs for their friends

Anne Stuart

#8. When a gently born spinster has little money, her choices are few. She might receive an offer of marriage, but it's unlikely to be from a wealthy man, so she'll have a hard life trying to make ends meet for her growing family.

Jo Beverley

#9. I really hope that the philanthropy movement is seen not just as wealthy people giving money away but wealthy people giving away their time, their energy and their ideas.

David Rubenstein

#10. I know plenty of people with kids in elite, private schools and had heard many stories. I have drifted into the homes of some of those very wealthy families in New York and am fascinated with the dynamic and how much freedom the children are given.

Jane Green

#11. No matter what precautions we take, no matter how well we have put together a good life, no matter how hard we have worked to be healthy, wealthy, comfortable with friends and family, and successful with our career - something will inevitably ruin it.

Timothy Keller

#12. Organised brigandage has ceased to exist, but murder and highway robbery are still far too common in the less frequented districts. Travellers rarely suffer to-day, however. It is the wealthy inhabitants who run risks at the hand of the mafia, or lawless Sicilian.

Alec-Tweedie

#13. The initial wealth of a group and its time of arrival are obviously important, as many wealthy "old families " show, but the Jews arrived late and penniless in the nineteenth century and are now more affluent than any other ethnic group.

Thomas Sowell

#14. Feckless as it was for Bush to ask Americans to go shopping after 9/11, we all too enthusiastically followed his lead, whether we were wealthy, working-class or in between. We spent a decade feasting on easy money, don't-pay-as-you-go consumerism and a metastasizing celebrity culture.

Frank Rich

#15. My parents didn't really restrict my movement, so I got involved in the underground music scene and the activism scene; I was doing some volunteering in food relief. I spent a lot of time throughout the city in poor areas, even though my family lived in a wealthy area.

Jess Row

#16. My parents knew a wider range of people than most, and so we had actors, journalists, politicians, planters, sportsmen and women and business folk all coming in and out of the places we lived in. Although my parents were not wealthy, they lived a legendary and amazingly cosmopolitan life.

Romesh Gunesekera

#17. I think the Republican Party is accurately defined as a party that looks out for the interests of the very wealthy

Bob Herbert

#18. I don't know anyone, from any class, who's had a perfectly easy life. I've met people born into wealthy families who feel like they didn't have much emotional support, and people who come from working-class families who had loads of love but no money.

Paloma Faith

#19. To be financially wealthy you must have a purpose for your life. In other words, without purpose, you'll never know when you have enough money, and you can never be financially wealthy.

Gary Keller

#20. I think overall it's a disadvantage," Jeb Bush once said of what it meant for his business career that he was the son of an American president and the brother of an American president and the grandson of a wealthy Wall Street banker and US senator.

Malcolm Gladwell

#21. You can't save dollar by dollar to become wealthy.

Ehab Atalla

#22. One of the rudest questions you might hear from an American is "What do you do for a living?" The only proper response is "Excuse me?" followed by a self-satisfied smirk and a stony silence. Then they assume that you are independently wealthy and grovel shamefully.

Dmitry Orlov

#23. We will lower the tax burden on middle class Americans by asking the very wealthy to pay their fair share. Middle class taxpayers will have a choice between a children's tax credit or a significant reduction in their income tax rate.

William J. Clinton

#24. Together they sank onto the mattress, lying face-to-face. The bed was too narrow for two, but Alan would've been entwined as close as possible with her even if they were lying in his parents' huge tester bed, the one his Dutch grandfather, a wealthy merchant, had brought over from Amsterdam.

Bonnie Dee

#25. The upright are richer in deeds than the wealthy are in gold.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#26. I have had lots of friends who've been affected by Aids and a very good friend of mine, Oscar Moore, died of Aids and I was with him in his last year quite a bit. And of course he was a man living in a very rich culture with a wealthy family who was able to afford health care.

Emma Thompson

#27. There is also a doubt as to what is to be the supreme power in the state: - Is it the multitude? Or the wealthy? Or the good? Or the one best man? Or a tyrant?

Aristotle.

#28. People become wealthy when they become specific ... when they know what that means to them, not only in terms of the objects and amounts involved - ... but also in terms of how they want this wealth to make them feel.

Kiki Theo

#29. This administration is cutting the programs that our Nation and its citizens need most, while dissolving the safety nets created to protect the elderly and less fortunate in this wealthy Nation.

Corrine Brown

#30. Inspector Turner's hope to marry a wealthy Mr. Right and leave the service stayed just that - a hope - as so often Mr. Right turned out to be either Mr. Liar, Mr. Drunk or Mr. Already Married.

Jasper Fforde

#31. It is a wealthy person, indeed, who calculates riches not in gold but in friends.

Jim Stovall

#32. Until 1943 I received no stipend. I was able to support myself as my mother was the daughter of a relatively wealthy cotton manufacturer.

Frederick Sanger

#33. Unlike Milan, Italy's banking capital, or Rome, its religious center, Florence was the place where the rich went to buy goods that would showcase how wealthy they were.

Hanya Yanagihara

#34. Breezy journalistic sentences about wealthy white people unaware that other human beings are real became the rubber stamp product of the elite MFA programs.

Sarah Schulman

#35. I don't want to live in a monoculture of any kind. I don't want to live in a wealthy monoculture, a black monoculture. I don't want to live in an elitist, progressive monoculture.

Richard Benjamin

#36. Seven wealthy towns contend for Homer dead, Through which the living Homer begged his bread

Thomas Seward

#37. 'The Irish Duke' is a sequel to 'The Decadent Duke' about Lady Georgina Gordon who married the Duke of Bedford. 'The Irish Duke' tells the story of their daughter, Lady Louisa, who married James Hamilton, the powerful and wealthy Duke of Abercorn.

Virginia Henley

#38. I'm not revealing any deep, hidden secret that there are wealthy people in Asia.

Kevin Kwan

#39. A wealthy and wise man doesn't shake hands with people, he gives an helping hand.

Michael Bassey

#40. Fix yourself upon the wealthy. In a word, take this for a golden rule through life: Never, never have a friend that is poorer than yourself.

Douglas William Jerrold

#41. The wealthy are always surrounded by hangers-on; science and art are as well.

Anton Chekhov

#42. People do not become wealthy by treating one another or the world kindly and with respect.

Wendell Berry

#43. And he'll indulge you, because he's making an investment in you. You're an asset to him. You're beautiful, well bred and well connected, and independently wealthy. You're also in love with him and he can't take his eyes off you. I bet he can't keep his hands off you, either.

Sylvia Day

#44. One by one we come to God, young and old, wealthy and homeless, we are diverse: not one of us is alike. Yet similar, we're all learning to live the life God promised, and longing to be fulfilled.

Danise Jurado

#45. The wealthy are doing just fine in the Obama economy.

Rob Portman

#46. History is written by the victors, which is certainly true, but it's also written by the wealthy and the literate.

Megan Smolenyak

#47. America: An ongoing experiment in democracy controlled largely by insanely wealthy people. And that's just the way we like it, thank you very much.

James Napoli

#48. You don't have to be like most people around you, because most people never become truly rich and wealthy.

Manoj Arora

#49. This is not class warfare, this is generational warfare. This administration and old wealthy people have declared war on young people. That is the real war that is going on here. And that is the war we've got to talk about.

James Carville

#50. I believe in fierce love, pushing the edge, calling the robbers, the corporates, the elites, the pillagers and insanely wealthy to task, going whatever distance we need to go now to protect our earth and each other.

Eve Ensler

#51. The whole process of getting licenses to broadcast, which took place decades ago, was done behind closed doors by powerful lobbies, and wealthy commercial interests got all the licenses with no public input, no congressional input for that matter.

Robert McChesney

#52. I think I've been a moderately good boss. I've made a lot of people extremely wealthy - I think we've created 30 millionaires.

Peter Hargreaves

#53. None is poor but the mean in mind, the timorous, the weak, and unbelieving; none is wealthy but the affluent in soul, who is satisfied and floweth over.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#54. Wealthy men can't live in an island that is encircled by poverty. We all breathe the same air. We must give a chance to everyone, at least a basic chance.

Ayrton Senna

#55. The Republicans are wrong in thinking that the rich create jobs. In reality, many of the richest Americans have been investing in efficiency innovations rather than to create jobs. And the Democrats are wrong, because growth won't happen if they distribute the wealth of the wealthy to everyone else.

Clayton Christensen

#56. The profile of a wealthy person is this hard work, perseverance, and most of all, self-discipline.

Zig Ziglar

#57. I believe that the only people who really, truly benefit from any of the policies of Republicans are the wealthy. I'm in that 1 percent tax bracket, but I'm not a man of wealth.

Questlove

#58. No one, by swearing, makes themselves an ounce more honest; any more than a man makes himself wealthy by counting his gold. Oaths may make a liar a liar yet again, having lied about the oath as well. But it cannot alter the worth of an honest man's word.

Jake Yaniak

#59. The inequalities are greater now than in '92. Some states have equalized per-pupil spending but they set the 'equal level' very low, so that wealthy districts simply raise extra money privately.

Jonathan Kozol

#60. There is no dramatic difference in happiness on the part of people who are wealthy.

Deborah Norville

#61. She pouted prettily, and he wondered if that was one of the things they taught wealthy young girls at schools like Miss Porter's. If not, it had been passed down from one generation to another as carefully as the secret of fire.

Kristin Hannah

#62. Pay with compliments and you will always be wealthy.

Michael Dolan

#63. Make sure your life is a rare entertainment! It doesn't take anything drastic. You needn't be gorgeous or wealthy or smart, just very enthusiastic!

Bette Midler

#64. I'm bound to say that New York's a topping place to be exiled in. Everybody was awfully good to me, and there seemed to be plenty of things going on, and I'm a wealthy bird, so everything was fine.

P.G. Wodehouse

#65. Readily people do not accept any ordinary to behave like an extraordinary unless and until some extraordinary but preferably wealthy approves him to be not ordinary.

Anuj

#66. If I were really really ridiculously wealthy, I wouldn't buy a mansion, just tiny apartments in every city I love.

Mara Wilson

#67. Americans are optimists. They hope they'll be wealthy someday - and they're positive they can get one more brushful of paint out of an empty can.

Bernard Williams

#68. If you are wealthy enough, use part or all of your Social Security proceeds to invest in a favorite cause or two. Invest 10 percent or 100 percent of your monthly Social Security check in your favorite charity, foundation, think tank, church or synagogue, or other good cause.

Mark Skousen

#69. Because, I figured that, because I was a successful man, I was wealthy, I was, you know, seemingly intelligent - even that I am not intelligent enough to ask for help.

Elton John

#70. I came from a rural background, and I didn't come in contact with a lot of wealthy people.

Josh Turner

#71. I have come to discover that the reason why they are so wealthy and prosperous is not because they were lying on the couch all day.

Sunday Adelaja

#72. Patrice raised his cup and smiled. "To a successful flight, then."
To wealthy eccentric clients with more money than brains, Elle thought to herself as she took a sip of fragrant tea.

Liesel Schwarz

#73. Warren Buffett said that he would not invest in any business where the owner hasn't failed at least twice. I love that truly wealthy and successful people understand that failure is part of the process.

Steve Harvey

#74. Richness does not exist in being wealthy, richness exists in having abundance in life.

Debasish Mridha

#75. Fidelity surveyed a group with at least $1 million investment assets excluding real estate and retirement. 42% of them did not FEEL wealthy.

Christopher Hayes

#76. The historian assesses that the investment of the wealthy classes in the Bank of England wedded them to the fate of the nation as a whole and to the maintenance of its stability.

Walter Russell Mead

#77. I've known white Australian girls from wealthy families who were sent to posh private schools, who knew all of that stuff, and I think would recognise much in Jefferson's book. What I related to most strongly was the sexism and misogyny Margo Jefferson had to battle.

Justine Larbalestier

#78. Everywhere you will find that the wealth of the wealthy springs from the poverty of the poor.

Peter Kropotkin

#79. A lot of people are deeply dissatisfied by the diminishing control they have over their lives, because of the way our system of government is set up, to cater to the powerful, cater to the wealthy, cater to the corporations, and not to the individual American citizen.

Josh Fox

#80. Physical comforts cannot subdue mental suffering, and if we look closely, we can see that those who have many possessions are not necessarily happy. In fact, being wealthy often brings even more anxiety.

Dalai Lama

#81. The fact that wealthy people or people from privileged backgrounds may wind up in a violent terrorist organization is not new.

Lowell Bergman

#82. The nice part about being wealthy is I can do what I want to do. If it doesn't work, it doesn't work. But I have to be honest.

Donald Trump

#83. You worked for Walmart, Nestle, De Beers, or some other corporate monster. You were wealthy but you often bathed me in pennies. Melted pennies. I let you because I thought you were infallible. I drank molten copper because you told me to. I would do anything you asked me to.

Logan Ryan Smith

#84. Success is doing the best you possibly can with what you've been given. There are an alarming number of wealthy failures in the world today.

John Avery

#85. I had a very spoilt childhood. Not that my family were incredibly wealthy, but we lived on the beautiful island of Hawaii where everything was lush and in abundance.

Marie Helvin

#86. Picture how bitterly hordes of the frustrated, disappointed, and dispossessed would greet any complaint about being too satisfied and too wealthy. Be that as it may, it really isn't a very nice sensation not to want anything. Thwarted hopes are no picnic, but desire itself is energizing.

Lionel Shriver

#87. There was a time in my life when I was going in and out of houses that were extraordinarily different - from a working-class terrace in Northampton to the homes of friends who were really very wealthy. It was quite an odd position to be in, I realise looking back, and quite a nice one.

Mark Haddon

#88. But is it just then that the few and the wealthy should be the rulers? And what if they, in like manner, rob and plunder the people, - is this just?

Aristotle.

#89. If we place an honest, though less wealthy person on a higher pedestal than a corrupt, yet rich individual, we will have contributed to India's progress. And

Chetan Bhagat

#90. cock. This wealthy man had definitely not

Mindy Wilde

#91. You can't hate yourself happy, You can't criticize yourself thin, You can't shame yourself wealthy. Real change begins with self-love and self care.

Jessica Ortner

#92. I was kind of a loser at ballet school. It's all rich kids, and I was not a wealthy kid. I didn't have the Chanel butterfly clip everyone else did.

Sarah Hay

#93. They had a profile of John Kerry on the news and they said his first wife was worth around $300 million and his second wife, his current wife, is worth around $700 million. So when John Kerry says he's going after the wealthy in this country, he's not just talking. He's doing it!

Jay Leno

#94. Money is not a motivating factor. Money doesn't thrill me or make me play better because there are benefits to being wealthy. I'm just happy with a ball at my feet. My motivation comes from playing the game I love. If I wasn't paid to be a professional footballer I would willingly play for nothing.

Lionel Messi

#95. We pass bills authorizing improvements and grants. But when it comes time to pay for these programs, we'd rather put the country's money toward tax breaks for the wealthy than for police officers who are protecting our communities.

David Price

#96. Put in the superlatives yourselves, I'm running out. Money doesn't thrill me or make me play better because there are benefits to being wealthy.

Hristo Stoichkov

#97. I am Reaylin de Voss," she said smugly, as if he should recognize her surname. He did not, which meant her family was not particularly wealthy, powerful or influential. "Well,

Kel Kade

#98. That Rome was comparatively great and wealthy is certain.

Goldwin Smith

#99. Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.

Frank Lloyd Wright

#100. And he has to be handsome, unbelievably handsome, impossibly handsome with a strong, square jaw and powerful cheekbones and tanned skin and beautiful eyes with lush, thick lashes. He has to be clever and very wealthy but hard-working. He has to be virile, fierce, ruthless and rugged.

Kristen Ashley