Rich Get Richer Quotes

#1. The most insidious thing about trickle-down economics is not the claim that if the rich get richer, everyone is better off. It is the claim made by those who oppose any increase in the minimum wage that if the poor get richer, that will be bad for the economy. This is nonsense.

Nick Hanauer

#2. One thin's sure and nothing's surer
The rich get richer and the poor get - children.
In the meantime,
In between time ...

F Scott Fitzgerald

#3. One thing's sure and nothing surer. The rich get richer and the poor get- children

Ron Rash

#4. You have friends, and they die. You have a disease, someone you care about has a disease, Wall Street people are scamming everyone, the poor get poorer, the rich get richer. That's what we're surrounded by all the time.

Adam Driver

#5. The rich get richer until the poor get educated.

Sage Francis

#6. If you believe that when the rich get richer, the poor get poorer, then you believe that creating wealth causes poverty, and you're an idiot,

Michael Medved

#7. All drugs should be legal. War is wrong. The rich get richer. The poor get poorer. Thank you. I'll be here all week.

Bill Hicks

#8. The rich get richer and the poor get the picture. I think this Occupy Wall Street thing is great.

Simon Baker

#9. The rich get richer. Not only because they have surpluses with which to invest, but because of the overriding emotional release they experience from having wealth.

Stuart Wilde

#10. The rich survive and everyone else gets ready to work 2 1/2 to 3 1/2 jobs and what do you get? Blade Runner. Welcome to your science fiction. Your 21st century. I think that's where it goes. The rich get richer and everyone else ... the middle class kind of starts dropping lower and lower.

Henry Rollins

#11. As in the general society, fertility tends to be greatest where people are poorest: "The rich get richer, and the poor have children." In

Thomas Sowell

#12. The tax code is not the only area where the administration is helping the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. It has spent $155 billion for an unnecessary war driven by fear.

Dennis Kucinich

#13. There is one rule that works in every calamity. Be it pestilence, war, or famine, the rich get richer and poor get poorer. The poor even help arrange it.

Will Rogers

#14. After all, the rich get richer and the poor get children. Which is okay so long as lots of them starve in infancy.

John Brunner

#15. It's the most talented, not the least talented, who are continually trying to improve their dialogue skills. As is often the case, the rich get richer.

Kerry Patterson

#16. My visions of the future are always pretty much standard issue. The rich get richer, the poor get poorer and there are flying cars.

Joss Whedon

#17. Rich get richer. Everyone else gets poorer. And all these guys can talk about is war and defunding Planned Parenthood.

Bernie Sanders

#18. It would drive a person crazy to dope out really what does divide the two parties. Prosperity don't divide the two parties, for under either administration the poor get poorer and the rich get richer.

Will Rogers

#19. What I quickly discovered is that our so-called new South Africa has as much material for a story-teller as the old one. The landscape hasn't really changed. Who is in power now is different to who was in power then, but the squatter camps grow like cancer, the rich get richer, the poor get poorer.

Athol Fugard

#20. When you have a tax system in which most of the exemptions and the lowest rates benefit the richest, all in the name of job creation, all that happens is that the rich get richer.

Nick Hanauer

#21. This figure shows the cash flows in a world with only two people. I labeled them creditor and debtor. In reality, there are many creditors and debtors (see text for details). It also explains why the "rich get richer" and why those who are in debt and work for a living never seem to "get ahead.

Jacob Lund Fisker

#22. In bad times, the rich usually get richer.

Stuart Wilde

#23. In financial terms, my sense is that the distribution of wealth, unequal as it is, is self-perpetuating, and, especially in a linked and accelerating world, the rich get ever more quickly richer while the poor get ever more speedily poorer.

Pico Iyer

#24. Memories just get richer with time.

Scott Hamilton

#25. Rich men use most of their money to get richer. Poor men use most of their money to look richer.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#26. When conservatives talk about opportunity, they mean opportunities for the rich to get richer, for the powerful to get more powerful.

Elizabeth Warren

#27. We are giving away the country so a few very rich people can get richer.

Virgil Goode

#28. The rich do get richer - meaning that those who appreciate what they
have will get more. Be grateful everyday.

Marshall Sylver

#29. I'm still a communist in the sense that I don't believe the world will survive with the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer - I think that the pressures will get so tremendous that the social contract will just come apart.

Pete Seeger

#30. From borrowing one gets poorer and from work one gets richer.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

#31. You should know this about the rich: they always want to get richer. It is never boring, getting your hands on more money. When

Taylor Jenkins Reid

#32. I have a problem with too much money. I can't reinvest it fast enough, and because I reinvest it, more money comes in. Yes, the rich do get richer.

Robert Kiyosaki

#33. People who are rich want to be richer, but what's the difference? The toys get different, that's all. The rich guys buy a football team, the poor guys buy a football. It's all relative.

Martina Navratilova

#34. I could be a school teacher and be rich. It has nothing to do with your money; it has to do with your knowledge. If I was a school teacher, I would be ten times richer because I have more time off! They get the summer off, holidays off, weekends off.

Robert Kiyosaki

#35. Budget cuts if you're not rich, tax cuts if you are. Less money for those who don't have any and more to those who do. That's how President Fredo says we're going to get out of the giant deficit hole he's dug. You can't put it any more simply. Rich people richer. Poor people poorer.

Will Durst

#36. Did my job really matter? A successful year would only help a rich company get richer.

John Wood

#37. There is nothing wrong in wanting to get rich. The desire for riches is really the desire for a richer, fuller, and more abundant life, and that desire is praise worthy.

Wallace D. Wattles

#38. I feel my personality is richer than my bank account. So if I meet a girl, maybe first she just likes me because I'm rich. But then she's gonna get to know me and say, 'Screw the money.'

Will.i.am

#39. In fifteen hundred years someone will figure out a way to squeeze black juice out of the yellow sand, and that will get everyone very excited. Some people who were rich already will get a lot richer, and some people who were poor will be told that they're richer but will be pretty sure they're not.

Louise Carey

#40. He's a rich, powerful man. Rich, powerful men get away with things all the time. It's the law of capitalism. It's especially an issue when those rich, powerful men have ties to men who are richer and more powerful.

Laurelin Paige

#41. The rich aren't happy so they try and get richer thinking it will make a difference. The poor aren't happy. They try and get rich thinking that will make a difference.

Frederick Lenz