Top 100 To Get Rich Quotes
#1. Society has to be structured such that there are checks and balances, so that it can't be manipulated, for instance, for the profit of just some multinational company who's going to get rich on trying to legislate the environment.
Greg Graffin
#2. He who wants to get rich wants to get rich quickly.
Juvenal
#3. Most people get into bands for three very simple rock and roll reasons: to get laid, to get fame, and to get rich.
Bob Geldof
#4. It is a matter of whether one wants to get rich or be rich. We can be rich in Christ Jesus or perhaps get rich in Egypt, but we cannot do both.
Vance Havner
#5. As recently as the 1970s, the idea that the point of life was to get rich and that governments existed to facilitate this would have been ridiculed: not only by capitalism's traditional critics but also by many of its staunchest defenders.
Tony Judt
#6. Working for the earth is not a way to get rich, it is a way to be rich
Paul Hawken
#7. If you import a commercial quantity of illegal drugs ... it is because you have made the personal decision that you are prepared to get rich by destroying our children. I have made the decision that I love our children enough that we will kill you if you do this.
Newt Gingrich
#8. If you would be just as content winning a local Golden Gloves fight as you would making a pile of money as a professional, then fine, go become a boxer. But if the whole idea is for you to get rich, my God, stay in school and learn a profession.
Gerald McRaney
#9. I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to get rich.
Gertrude Stein
#10. I think that the reason why we Americans seem to be so addicted to trying to get rich suddenly is merely because the opportunity to make promising efforts in that direction has offered itself to us with a frequency out of all proportion to the European experience.
Mark Twain
#11. There are thousands of ways to get rich, but there is only one way to reach the island of happiness. You need unconditional love to reach that island.
Debasish Mridha
#12. I don't want to get rich - just live good.
Patsy Cline
#13. I think the challenge is, in fashion everybody wants to get rich and famous and it's easy to get rich and famous by being a bad person. But the challenge is to achieve your goals-whatever they are-while staying a decent human being. That's where it came from.
Katharine Hamnett
#14. You want to get rich in order that you may surround yourself with beautiful things, see distant lands, feed your mind, and develop your intellect; in order that you may love others and do kind things, and be able to play a good part in helping the world to find truth.
Wallace D. Wattles
#15. You ain't never going to get rich that way, Johnson. And there's money in that dick. Lots of money.
James Lear
#16. The middle class and the world class might live in the same world, but they do not share the same level of freedom. While this infuriates the masses, it motivates the ambitious to get rich.
Steve Siebold
#17. When beggars and shoeshine boys, barbers and beauticians can tell you how to get rich it is time to remind yourself that there is no more dangerous illusion than the belief that one can get something for nothing.
Bernard Baruch
#18. It's not so hard to get rich as it is to know when you have gotten rich.
Josh Billings
#19. There is still an overwhelming social compulsion-an insanity of consensus, if you will-to get rich from life rather than live richly, to "do well" in the world instead of living well.
Rolf Potts
#20. We're so absorbed in the effort to get rich, we no longer recognize when we are rich.
Andy Stanley
#21. But I'm tired of this bustle. Everybody rushing over everybody, in their hurry to get rich.
Elizabeth Gaskell
#22. I had to get rich so I could afford to sing like I was poor again.
Dolly Parton
#23. if you want to succeed, think about all the ways that can make you fail. You want to get rich, think about all the ways that can make you poor.
Hajer W
#24. I find it hard to be labelled in this new 'super-rich' category because we all grew up with very little. The idea that 'to get rich is glorious' is really a new phenomenon. I certainly didn't grow up like that.
Zhang Xin
#25. We've had the most massive creation of wealth for people a lot younger than those who formerly got wealth in the history of the world. The world is full of young people who really want to get rich, and when I left school nobody thought it was a reasonable possibility.
Charlie Munger
#26. The be-all and end-all of life should not be to get rich, but to enrich the world.
B.C. Forbes
#28. Why are we in this mess, now facing the prospect of economic armageddon? It's because the prevailing characteristic has been greed, and it doesn't matter whether it's individuals living beyond their means or governments living beyond their means or people seeking to get rich quick.
Jeremy Paxton
#29. if a person cannot master the power of self-discipline, it is best not to try to get rich.
Robert T. Kiyosaki
#31. Rich old people are more attractive than poor old people, so by all means, try to get rich before age sets in. Otherwise, you'll just be playing catch-up for the rest of your life and that will just wear you out, let me tell you.
Jill Conner Browne
#32. Well, I think the biggest mistake is not learning the habits of saving properly early. Because saving is a habit. And then, trying to get rich quick. It's pretty easy to get well-to-do slowly. But it's not easy to get rich quick.
Warren Buffett
#33. I had to get rich so I could sing like I was poor again.
Dolly Parton
#34. If there were an honorable way to get rich, I'd do it, even if it meant being a stooge standing around with a whip. But there isn't an honorable way, so I just do what I like.
Confucius
#35. 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
#36. You don't have to get rich to have [fewer] children. It has happened across the world.
Hans Rosling
#38. On Money - There are many ways to get rich quickly. All of them are risky. Some of them are dangerous. A few of them are downright fatal.
Marsha Hinds
#39. Today's youth are told to get rich or die trying and they really shouldn't take that attitude forward with them.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
#40. The faster you want to get rich, the more accurate with numbers you must be.
Robert Kiyosaki
#41. The fact is that living the life of your dreams is possible. People prove that every day. Someone somewhere is going to get rich, get healthy and improve their life. My recommendation is this: Let it be you
Jim Rohn
#42. Americans like to get rich fast. That this means we go broke fast, too, is something that we have become very good at forgetting. Our ignorance of history is matched only by our unfailing optimism; it's actually part of our optimism.
Jill Lepore
#43. I don't want to get rich. I just want to play my music for the people.
Eddie Kirkland
#44. I want to get rich through hard work ...
As long as it is not mine!
Jose N. Harris
#45. Humans were made to work in sweet to earn a living. Those that try to get rich or live at the expense of others all get divine retribution somewhere along the line. That's the lesson. unfortunately we forget the lessons quickly and then we have to learn them all over again.
Jet Black
#46. One day, I want to get rich enough so that every time I walk into a room I can release a dozen doves.
Daniel Tosh
#47. Wear yourself out to get rich; stop giving your attention to it. 5 As soon as your eyes fly to it, it disappears, for it makes wings for itself and flies like an eagle to the sky.
Anonymous
#48. To get rich, you have to be making money while you're asleep.
David Bailey
#49. Mostly, you become a writer not because you want to get rich or famous, but because you have to write; because there is something inside that must come out.
Gene Weingarten
#50. 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
#51. You don't get rich writing science fiction. If you want to get rich, you start a religion.
L. Ron Hubbard
#52. I never met a poor person who wanted to soak the rich; they want to get rich.
Jack Kemp
#53. 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
#54. 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
#55. Those who invest only to get rich will fail. Those who invest to help others will probably succeed.
Arthur Fry
#56. 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
#57. 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
#58. To get rich never risk your health. For it is the truth that health is the wealth of wealth.
Richard Baker
#59. I found it easier to get rich than I did to make excuses.
Jim Rohn
#60. I've traveled all over the world and America is the easiest place to get rich.
Robert Kiyosaki
#61. 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
#62. 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
#63. There's only 1 way to get rich, quick! But not through a get rich quick scheme. There's a difference.
Jordan Belfort
#64. 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
#65. 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
#66. 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
#67. 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
#68. I think that most Americans don't resent people for getting rich. They want to get rich themselves.
Barack Obama
#69. Every other start-up wants to be another United or Delta or American. We just want to get rich.
Robert L. Priddy
#70. 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
#71. 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
#72. If you want to get rich with a tax free enterprise that sells nothing, start a church.
Bill Maher
#73. 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
#74. 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
#75. Following what everyone else is doing is rarely a way to get rich.
Jim Rogers
#76. 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
#78. It's very hard to get rich and famous at a young age and handle it well.
Randy Newman
#79. There are two ways to get rich. Either get more, or want less.
Thor Duffin
#80. Some people wanted to get rich or famous, but my friends and I wanted to get real. We wanted to get deep. (Also, I suppose, we wanted to get laid.)
Anne Lamott
#82. It is not easy to get rich in Las Vegas, at Churchill Downs, or at the local Merrill Lynch office.
Paul Samuelson
#83. 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
#84. 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
#85. 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
#86. 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
#87. 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
#88. 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
#89. 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
#90. 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
#92. 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
#93. 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
#94. 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
#95. 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
#96. 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
#97. 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
#98. We're the party that wants to see an America in which people can still get rich.
Ronald Reagan
#99. Some of these rich folks seem to think that everything belongs to them and they'll even get to take it with them when they die. But you know what? You don't ever see a hearse pulling a U Haul.
Jim Hightower
#100. The friendless, the weak, the victims of prejudice and public excitement are entitled to the same quality of justice and fair play that the rich, the powerful, the well-connected, and the fellow with pull thinks he can get.
Harry S. Truman
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