Richest Quotes

#1. We have built a government so large and so expensive here in Washington that not even the richest economy in the history of mankind can afford it. That's how big it's gotten.

Marco Rubio

#2. Inspiration is the richest nation I know, the most powerful on earth. Sexual energy Freud calls it; the capital of desire I call it; it pays for both mental and physical expenditure.

Sylvia Ashton-Warner

#3. Democracy is impossible in a capitalist system. Capitalism is the realm of injustice and a tyranny of the richest against the poorest.

Hugo Chavez

#4. I am very ambitious in a way, in that I'm not trying to be the richest guy or whatever. I just really like my work.

Henry Rollins

#5. 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

#6. I mean, before this, I would have said playing Bill Gates, because I'm playing someone obviously who is alive and is the richest man in the world. That was a heavy responsibility.

Anthony Michael Hall

#7. Behold
the azure sea in front of you,
the turquoise sky above you,
the amber mountain beneath your feet,
and the golden daisy in your hands.
How are you not the richest person on earth?

Khang Kijarro Nguyen

#8. The goal is not to be the richest man in the cemetery.

Steve Jobs

#9. Love is the human family's most precious legacy. Its richest bequest. Its golden inheritance.

Michael Jackson

#10. The richest source of creation is feeling, followed by a vision of its meaning.

Anais Nin

#11. I was one of the richest rappers in 2008. But it was definitely a strange feeling.

Will Ferrell

#12. In the light of His example, we can prove that suffering is to God's child the token of the Father's love and the channel of His richest blessing.

Andrew Murray

#13. As of early 2016, the sixty-two richest people in the world were worth as much as the poorest 3.6 billion people! Since the world's population is about 7.2 billion, it means that these sixty-two billionaires together hold as much wealth as the entire bottom half of humankind.37 The

Yuval Noah Harari

#14. I can't recall ever once having seen the name of a market timer on Forbes' annual list of the richest people in the world. If it were truly possible to predict corrections, you'd think somebody would have made billions by doing it.

Peter Lynch

#15. So, at one extreme you have indigenous, tribal societies trying to stem the race to disaster. At the other extreme, the richest, most powerful societies in world history, like the United States and Canada, are racing full-speed ahead to destroy the environment as quickly as possible.

Noam Chomsky

#16. The bottom line is, painting, at its richest, is done best with no purpose whatsoever aside from pleasing the person making the art.

Charles Sovek

#17. Yahoo! is committed to building the richest set of premium and personalized content experiences for our users.

Ross Levinsohn

#18. The integrity and self-esteem gained from winning the battle against extremity are the richest treasures in my life

Diana Nyad

#19. First of all, tabloid stories are some of the richest and most important stories that we have. There's nothing wrong, per se, with tabloid stories.

Errol Morris

#20. When I was 15, I worked as a bag boy in a grocery store. I also needed to walk old ladies to their car and put their bags in the car, and they would give me two dollars. I felt like the richest man in the world.

Adam DeVine

#21. The hand has the richest articulation of space.

Eduardo Chillida

#22. Love's stories written in love's richest books.
To fan the moonbeams from his sleeping eyes.

William Shakespeare

#23. In Cornwall, it is quite possible to take a stride from the richest vegetation into the abomination of desolation. It has been said in mockery that Cornwall does not grow wood enough to make coffins for the people.

Sabine Baring-Gould

#24. I regret being the richest man in the world because that position attracts undeserved publicity.

Bill Gates

#25. God has blessed man with seed that has the highest potency and woman with a field richer than the richest earth to be found anywhere on his globe.

Mahatma Gandhi

#26. The United States of America is the richest country in the world; yet we're the worst at taking care of poor people.

Unita Blackwell

#27. Every one, even the richest and most munificent of men, pays much by cheque more light-heartedly than he pays little in specie.

Max Beerbohm

#28. Intellectual property is the oil of the 21 century. Look at the richest men a hundred years ago; they all made their money extracting natural resources or moving them around. All today's richest men have made their money out of intellectual property.

Mark Getty

#29. The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Lawrence Durrell

#30. Even the richest soil, if left uncultivated will produce the rankest weeds.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#31. People are ready to say, 'Yes, we are ready for single-payer health insurance.' We are the only industrialized country in the world that does not have national health insurance. We are the richest in wealth and the poorest in health of all the industrial nations.

Studs Terkel

#32. The richest soil, if uncultivated, produces the rankest weeds.

Plutarch

#33. For more than two decades, I repeatedly voiced the mantra that - situated as we are virtually on the coastline of the world's richest economy - Jamaica has no reason to be poor,

Edward Seaga

#34. The Germans have four violin concertos. The greatest, most uncompromising is Beethoven's. The one by Brahms vies with it in seriousness. The richest, the most seductive, was written by Max Bruch. But the most inward, the heart's jewel, is Mendelssohn's.

Joseph Joachim

#35. I've had the luxury of travel and, in the luxury of travel, I've seen the detriments of poverty and I've gone on to see how easy the cures can be
cures that cost cents to the richest nations in the world,.

Brad Pitt

#36. Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art.
~Waddington

W. Somerset Maugham

#37. Why do I regret Chelsea? I'm the boss of the richest club in the world. I have not had much time to adjust myself, but I've found a great restaurant! That is the first thing I did when I arrived!

Carlo Ancelotti

#38. It's the coolest thing - showing young, bright, and creative people that compassion and a compassionate life is the richest way to live. When you live that life, you create progress, productivity, and innovation.

Ian Somerhalder

#39. Orson Welles's second 'I-did-it' should show once and for all that film making, radio and the stage are three different guys better kept separated. 'The Magnificent Ambersons' is one of those versions of the richest family in town during the good old days.

Manny Farber

#40. Privacy about giving is counterproductive. There is solid scientific research showing that people are more likely to give if they can see that others are giving. The richest people, in particular, should be setting an example.

Peter Singer

#41. If you've lost your spirit, even living in the richest country in the world can't help you become rich.

Robert Kiyosaki

#42. Unaffected modesty is the sweetest charm of female excellence, the richest gem in the diadem of her honor.

Noah Webster

#43. I used to think like Moses. That knocked me down for a couple years and put me in prison. Then I start thinking like Job. Job waited and became the wealthiest and richest man ever 'cause he believed in God.

James Brown

#44. As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.

Victor Hugo

#45. The world's richest half billion people - that's about seven per cent of the global population - are responsible for fifty per cent of the world's emissions.

Tom Hodgkinson

#46. In whatever manner God created the world, it would always have been regular and in a certain general order. God, however, has chosen the most perfect, that is to say, the one which is at the same time the simplest in hypothesis and the richest in phenomena.

Gottfried Leibniz

#47. where hyperspatial engineers sucked matter through white holes in space to form it into dream planets - gold planets, platinum planets, soft rubber planets with lots of earthquakes - all lovingly made to meet the exacting standards that the Galaxy's richest men naturally came to expect.

Douglas Adams

#48. In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.

George Bernard Shaw

#49. Whatever happened to Warren Buffett, the world's their-richest man? Guilt, a feeling of being blessed by luck, forgotten lessons - who knows? In any case, Buffett now believe that government should redistribute the wealth earned by others to those who did not earn it.

Larry Elder

#50. he was more grateful for Truffey's generous forgiveness than he would have been for the richest living in Scotland. Such forgiveness is just giving us back ourselves - clean and happy. And for what gift can we be more grateful?

George MacDonald

#51. The richest grace of ahimsa will descend easily upon the owner of hard discipline.

Mahatma Gandhi

#52. A good name is seldom regained. When character is gone, all is gone, and one of the richest jewels of life is lost forever.

Josiah Johnson Hawes

#53. Cities are judged by their richest inhabitants and rural areas are judged

Sharyn McCrumb

#54. Every election, roughly half the population votes Democrat and the other half votes Republican. Now, I understand why the Republicans get one percent of the vote - the richest one percent.That other percent, someone will have to explain to me.

Bill Maher

#55. Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful ... that's what matters to me.

Steve Jobs

#56. My personal feeling, if I can interject a political note, is that I don't think it is right that basic health care is a privilege. It shouldn't be. It should be a right of all human beings. And certainly in the richest country in the world.

Bryan Cranston

#57. While the richest people on earth pray to get richer, the rest of the world begs for intervention with their faces pressed to the window, watching us drink our coffee, unruffled by their suffering.

Jen Hatmaker

#58. An experience is richest not talked of.

Iris Murdoch

#59. No matter how many toys we amass we leave them behind when we die, just as we leave a broken environment, an economy that only benefits the richest, and a legacy of empowering greed over goodness. It is now time to commit to following a new path.

John Perkins

#60. George Liquor is really the richest character I have. I'm amazed there aren't 365 episodes about him on TV already.

John Kricfalusi

#61. Even the poorest street is rich with people on it and even the richest street is poor without people on it!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#62. They discovered one of the richest archaeological landscapes in the region, if not the world; a palimpsest of Neolithic, Edomite, Nabataean, Roman, Byzantine, Crusader, and Islamic material remains. This

Charles River Editors

#63. I come from a district where the veterans are not the richest in the country.

Corrine Brown

#64. I'll have you understand the United States has got the best navy in the world."
"Well, . . . why, then, do we need a bigger navy?"
"We've got to have a still bigger navy because we're the richest nation on earth.

Clyde Brion Davis

#65. Why else do you think we are permanently at war in various regions all over the world? And why is it the citizens of this country, one of the richest on earth, get poorer each year?

James Morcan

#66. Being the richest man on a sinking ship is a bitter victory

John Pugsley

#67. The retinue of a grandee in China or Indostan accordingly is, by all accounts, much more numerous and splendid than that of the richest subjects of Europe.

Adam Smith

#68. Gratitude is the richest, most joyful feeling humans are privileged to experience.

Susan Wittig Albert

#69. It's morally wrong, and economically self-defeating, that so much wealth flows upwards towards the richest of Americans, while millions work full time but still can't provide for their families.

Charles B. Rangel

#70. So many people spend their lives chasing money and end up as the richest men in the cemetery. I don't want to be like that.

Ross Perot

#71. The greatest difficulty we have faced is the neocolonial way of thinking that exists in this country. We were colonized by a country, France, that left us with certain habits. For us, being successful in life, being happy, meant trying to live as they do in France, like the richest of the French.

Thomas Sankara

#72. Of course, he who has put forth his total strength in fit actions, has the richest return of wisdom.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#73. Of all America's natural resources, its richest is an inexhaustible vein of irony.

Markham Shaw Pyle

#74. The hallucinations are innumerable. That's what has always been the matter with me, in fact: no belief in history, obliviousness of principles. I shall say no more about this: poets and visionaries would be jealous. I am a thousand times the richest, let's be as miserly as the sea.

Arthur Rimbaud

#75. One of the richest pleasures I know of is being housebound because of the wild winter weather outside. With your family about you, a good book on your lap, a roaring fire in the stove, and a good hot dinner in prospect - you are richer than a millionaire.

Annette Jackson

#76. New England waters are some of my favorite - they are some of the richest waters because they are temperate waters and nutrient-rich, and therefore provide food for so many animals, from giant whales to sharks to everything else.

Brian Skerry

#77. That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings.

John Ruskin

#78. If money could buy us happiness then some of the richest people on earth would be more than one million times more happier!

Avijeet Das

#79. Your nation is the richest, most powerful on the Earth, and it has one of the highest infant mortality rates. Why? Because poor people cannot afford quality pre-natal and post-natal care - and your society is profit driven.

Neale Donald Walsch

#80. Those who know God the best are the richest and most powerful in prayer. Little acquaintance with God, and strangeness and coldness to Him, make prayer a rare and feeble thing.

Edward McKendree Bounds

#81. Time engaged working on your own goals and dreams, is time spent as the richest person in the world.

Garry Fitchett

#82. Stories are where the richest insights lie, and your objective is to get to this point in every interview.

Steve Portigal

#83. Chile isn't the biggest, richest or most powerful country in the world, but we should dedicate ourselves to transforming it into the best country in the world. We don't have a single minute to lose.

Sebastian Pinera

#84. Every morning I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.

Robert Orben

#85. For common minds have an ugly ability to perceive in the deepest and richest saying nothing but their own everyday opinion.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#86. The kind of system Kickstarter uses has been used for hundreds of years. Unlike Medici-style patronage, where the richest people in town give large amounts of money, Kickstarter's system relies on the general public for funding projects, and rewards those backers.

Perry Chen

#87. Those who insert themselves into as many channels as possible look set to capture the most value. They'll be the richest, the most successful, the most connected, capable and influential among us. We're all publishers now, and the more we publish, the more valuable connections we'll make.

Pete Cashmore

#88. No matter what his rank or position may be, the lover of books is the richest and the happiest of the children of men.

John Alfred Langford

#89. The poorest people sometimes have the richest minds.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#90. It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.

Edgar Allan Poe

#91. 8th-grade test scores. Kids in the richest quarter with low test scores are as likely to make it through college as kids in the poorest quarter with high scores (see chart).

Anonymous

#92. Real women don't love the richest guy in the world they love the guy who can make their world the richest.

Jazz Feylynn

#93. The richest man is he who lives simply but has an abundance of love and kindness to give away.

Debasish Mridha

#94. The noblest contribution which any man can make for the benefit of posterity, is that of character. The richest bequest which any man can leave to the youth of his native land, is that of a shining, spotless example.

Robert Charles Winthrop

#95. Strictly from the perspective of human well-being, the richest-but-warmest world characterized by the A1FI scenario would probably be superior to the poorer-but-cooler worlds at least through 2085, particularly if one considers the numerous ways GDP per capita advances human well-being.

Indur M. Goklany

#96. The rich bought wonderful clothes you recognized. The richest had their pople go to Paris and buy the entire new collection that no one outside of the fashion house has seen.

Cassandra Clare

#97. There was no difference at all between the richest man and the poorest beggar, apart from the fact that the former had lots of money, food, power, fine clothes, and good health. But at least he wasn't any better. Just richer, fatter, more powerful, better dressed and healthier. It

Terry Pratchett

#98. We did a different show every night. We'd open a show, and then two weeks later we'd open the next show. And two weeks later we'd open the third show until we had all eight running. And it was just one of the richest experiences I'd ever had in my theatrical life.

Mandy Patinkin

#99. It's very difficult for the American people to believe that our government, one of the richest on Earth, is also one of the stingiest on Earth.

Jimmy Carter

#100. Tis not the fairest form that holds The mildest, purest soul within; 'Tis not the richest plant that holds The sweetest fragrance in.

Charles G. Dawes