Wealthy Men Quotes

#1. I watched wealthy men and their wives and dates dancing and playing cards and making deals: I will admire you exactly as much, no more or less, as you admire me. I will love you in the strictest moderation.

Helen Oyeyemi

#2. I'm an extremely wealthy man. I own the sky. I have invested all my capital in the sun. I'm not bad-tempered, as you seem to imagine, nor do I bear grudges. But like all wealthy men, I'm a little frightened of losing my fortune.

Halldor Laxness

#3. The British press is extremely centralised, and most of it is owned by wealthy men who have every motive to be dishonest on certain important topics.

George Orwell

#4. 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

#5. Wealthy men, too, like several of those in our neighborhood, had so many slaves that they were compelled to buy other plantations on which to employ them.

John Sergeant Wise

#6. In economy, invisible hand is a set of wealthy men.
It's the puppeteer who's in charge behind the curtain.

Toba Beta

#7. The press is owned by wealthy men who only want certain things to reach the public.

Noam Chomsky

#8. The Roman Empire, born out the Roman Republic, with its ideas of democracy among a certain group of wealthy men (no vote for men without land -as with our Founding Fathers- and certainly no vote for women and slaves. Why are democracies built on top of one form of slavery or another?)

Tina Packer

#9. A moment before I had been safe of all men's respect, wealthy, beloved - the cloth laying for me in the dining room at home; and now I was the common quarry of mankind, hunted, houseless, a known murderer, thrall to the gallows.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#10. The essential humanity of men can be protected and preserved only where government must answer, not just to the wealthy, not just to those of a particular religion, or a particular race, but to all its people.

Robert Kennedy

#11. Poverty's simplicity has an inexpensive beauty rooted in it, which the rich can never afford to buy

Munia Khan

#12. A man is not wealthy simply by the contents of his pockets alone, but instead by the richness of his heart.

Robert M. Hensel

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

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

Michael Bassey

#15. 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.

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

Ludwig Von Mises

#17. Though an inheritance of acres may be bequeathed, an inheritance of knowledge and wisdom cannot. The wealthy man may pay others for doing his work for him; but it is impossible to get his thinking done for him by another, or to purchase any kind of self-culture.

Samuel Smiles

#18. Money is one of the greatest instruments of freedom ever invented by man. It is money which in existing society opens an astounding range of choice to the poor man, a range greater than that which not many generations ago was open to the wealthy

Friedrich August Von Hayek

#19. WEALTH AND HOW TO ACHIEVE IT:
Let us define the wealthy man as he who has everything he desires. How to reach that happy condition? Two ways

Edward Abbey

#20. A wealthy doctor who can help a poor man, and will not without a fee, has less sense of humanity than a poor ruffian, who kills a rich man to supply his necessities.

Joseph Addison

#21. It's an absolute myth that early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise. Of course it doesn't.

Steven Conrad

#22. You know what the Quran teaches me? The Quran teaches me that an incredibly wealthy man can be a failure (Firaun) and a homeless man can be successful (Prophet Ibrahim). It teaches me that success has nothing to do with wealth and failure has nothing to do with poverty.

Nouman Ali Khan

#23. Who is all-powerful in the world? Who is most dreadful in the world? The machine. Who is most fair, most wealthy, and all-wise? The machine. What is the earth? A machine. What is the sky? A machine. What is man? A machine. A machine.

Leonid Andreyev

#24. Women deserve better than organizations bearing the names of racist rapists funding million dollar campaigns on subway trains. These wealthy middle aged white men tell us what to do with our bodies while they wage wars and kill other people's babies.

Sonya Renee Taylor

#25. Gender and class are different. Poor men still have the privileges of being men, even if they do not have the privileges of being wealthy.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#26. Franklin said once in one of his inspired flights of malignity
Early to bed and early to rise
Make a man healthy and wealth and wise.
As if it were any object to a boy to be healthy and wealthy and wise on such terms.

Mark Twain

#27. He's a wealthy man, a very wealthy man. If you have a half a million-dollar purchase from Tiffany's, you're not a middle-class American.

Mitt Romney

#28. Young men ... learn practical skills that set is in good stead for lives as the husbands of wealthy and educated women: Strong Handshakes, Silence, Rudimentary Car Mechanics, How to Mow the Lawn, Explosive Displays of Authority, Sport and Nutrition Against Impotance.

Helen Oyeyemi

#29. Successful men don't date up. They are intimidated by wealthy women unless they are blue bloods. Successful men want to always take care of their women, and that means financially.

Patti Stanger

#30. American authors or scientists are prone to consider the wealthy businessman as a barbarian, as a man exclusively intent upon making money.

Ludwig Von Mises

#31. Do you know," he said, "there are men who would like very much to see me dead. Powerful men. Obscenely wealthy me. Men who can afford to be patient and engage the services of large, ruthless brutes. I've managed to evade them all. But you ... God's truth, I think you'll be the very death of me.

Tessa Dare

#32. I've gone from being quite wealthy, when I was defending women, to being quite poor defending men.

Warren Farrell

#33. All privileges based on wealth, and all emnity to honest men merely because they are wealthy, are un-American.

Theodore Roosevelt

#34. The ideal client is the very wealthy man in very great trouble.

John Sterling

#35. The wise man applauds he who he thinks most virtuous; the rest of the world applauds the wealthy.

Samuel Johnson

#36. Prior to capitalism, the way people amassed great wealth was by looting, plundering and enslaving their fellow man. Capitalism made it possible to become wealthy by serving your fellow man.

Walter E. Williams

#37. I'm a wealthy man now. I've got a flat, a car, I have enough money to buy food. I skate to make the people happy. If somebody skates to earn money, I don't care. I skate for the people. Besides, it's pleasant to supply Russia with gold medals.

Evgeni Plushenko

#38. People who pay greater respect to a wealthy villain than to an honest, upright man in poverty, almost deserve to be enslaved; they plainly show that wealth, however it may be acquired, is, in their esteem, to be preferred to virtue.

John Hancock

#39. Among the wealthy, compassionate men claim the richest wealth, For material wealth is possessed by even contemptible men. Find and follow the good path and be ruled by compassion. For if the various ways are examined, compassion will prove the means to liberation.

Thiruvalluvar

#40. The only type of men Julia's mother had warned her about were wealthy industrialist who polluted the environment and took advantage of third-world countries. And Republilicans.

Cathie Linz

#41. The death of a man is like the fall of a mighty nation That had valiant armies, captains, and prophets, And wealthy ports and ships all over the seas.

Czeslaw Milosz

#42. Shaq is rich. The white man who signs his check ... is wealthy. "Ah, here you go, Shaq. Go buy yourself a bouncing car. Bling, bling!"

Chris Rock

#43. Back in the really olden days, dinner was seldom a ceremonial event for U.S. families. Only the very wealthy had a separate dining room. For most, meals were informal, a kind of rolling refueling; often only the men sat down.

Nancy Gibbs

#44. This hotel-the Amazon- was for women only, and they were mostly girls my age with wealthy parents who wanted to be sure their daughters would be living where men couldn't get at them and deceive them.

Sylvia Plath

#45. The standard of living of the common man is higher in those countries which have the greatest number of wealthy entrepreneurs.

Ludwig Von Mises

#46. The wealthy man is the man whois much, not the one who has much

Karl Marx

#47. It is from work that men are rich in flocks and wealthy, and a working man is much dearer to the immortals

Hesiod

#48. People in America worship money, and a white man's face on a green piece of paper does not make me wealthy. My health makes me wealthy. I used to work at a hospital, so I know the real deal.

Paul Mooney

#49. Penelope! Marriage proposals from wealthy, eligible young men do not blossom on trees! Particularly not in January, I wouldn't think.

Sarah MacLean

#50. I am not a wealthy woman. I wish to hell I was, but I never had a wealthy man.

Lauren Bacall

#51. There really is no correlation between age and one's bank balance. I've met wealthy boys and broke men.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#52. The wealthy man is not he who has money, but he who has the means to live in the luxurious state of early spring.

Anton Chekhov

#53. Most wealth is inconspicuous. The man down the street driving the nice car and living in the mansion could easily have greater debt and a lower net worth than the stealthy and wealthy plumber who drives a beat-up truck but seems to work only when he doesn't feel like fishing.

Loral Langemeier

#54. I take it that it is best for all to leave each man free to acquire property as fast as he can. Some will get wealthy. I dont believe in a law to prevent a man from getting rich; it would do more harm than good.

Abraham Lincoln