Top 100 Wealthy Poor Quotes
#1. Jerome says (Ep. ad Nepot. lii): Shun, as you would the plague, a cleric who from being poor has become wealthy, or who, from being a nobody has become a celebrity.
Thomas Aquinas
#2. The ties that bind the wealthy and the proud to home may be forged on earth, but those which link the poor man to his humble hearth are of truer metal and bear the stamp of Heaven.
Charles Dickens
#3. Everywhere you will find that the wealth of the wealthy springs from the poverty of the poor.
Peter Kropotkin
#4. 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
#5. Rich men use most of their money to get richer. Poor men use most of their money to look richer.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#6. Rich or poor, money rules with an iron fist.
Gary Hopkins
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. The wealthy and powerful become ever more wealthy and more powerful, while the poor and oppressed grow ever more enslaved.
K. Makansi
#10. American democracy in the past has always been known for its large middle class and its relatively few very wealthy people and very few very poor people, but that is gone to today and the middle class is shrinking.
Os Guinness
#11. If you have nothing but compassion, you are still very wealthy; if you have everything but compassion, you are still very poor!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#12. True, the free market ignores the poor precisely as it does not recognize the wealthy - it is 'no respecter of persons'
Leonard Read
#13. 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
#14. In a materialistic society, the dead body of a rich man's dog is regarded as a corpse; that of a poor man, a carcass.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#15. When everybody in the world loves one another, then the weak will not be overpowered by the strong, the few will not be oppressed by the many, the poor will not be mocked by the wealthy, the humble will not be disdained by the honoured, and the simple will not be deceived by the cunning.
Motsi Mabuse
#16. Love had not made them poor. Love had made them wealthy. In that moment, they were royalty, a king of fortune and a queen of destiny, embracing a tiny prince of peace.
Amy Harmon
#17. The wider the spread between the wealthy few and the impoverished many, the worse the social problems: a statement which appears to be true for rich and poor countries alike. What matters is not how affluent a country is but how unequal it is.
Tony Judt
#18. Cutting taxes is not bad. But if you cut taxes on the wealthy, which is what they wanted to do, you're not helping people who need better schools and better infrastructure and healthcare. You're basically robbing the middle class and the poor to provide tax cuts to the rich.
Robert Reich
#19. The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor.
John Kenneth Galbraith
#20. Over and over, the effects of America's diffusion, and then of its efforts to adjust to that diffusion, seemed to reach the wealthy and advantaged as rewards, but hit the poor and disadvantaged as punishments.
Yuval Levin
#21. I think that the poorest of the poor ... look up to wealthy and successful Indians with some degree of respect and pride.
Vijay Mallya
#22. There's many ways to be wealthy, and there's many wealthy people that are very poor. Success is not about money, it's happiness, inner peace, and loving yourself. Happiness and inner peace can come from your faith in God, and loving yourself is part of His plan.
Ron Baratono
#23. Wealthy people are just as patriotic as poor people, I honest to God believe that.
Joe Biden
#24. I charge my wealthy clients a lot and put 10 per cent in a fund which I use to pay the expenses of my poorer clients. When the government gangs up on the poor schnook in the street, someone has to stand up for him.
Alan Dershowitz
#25. The real source of market promise is not the wealthy few in the developing world, or even the3 emerging middle-income consumers. It is the billions of aspiring poor who are joining the market economy for the first time.
C. K. Prahalad
#26. The man who has been wealthy is dunned more civilly than the fellow who has ever been poor.
Geraldine Brooks
#27. A world where one tenth of the population gets to be extremely wealthy, and six tenths very poor, is not, in the long run, a stable place
Bill McKibben
#29. Being wealthy isn't just a question of having lots of money. It's a question of what we want. Wealth isn't an absolute, it's relative to desire. Every time we seek something that we can't afford, we can be counted as poor, how much money we may actually have.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#30. I think that growing up very poor in a very wealthy town gave me a sense of being an outsider, and I hated it when I was growing up.
Moby
#31. The last thing that people want to hear is the plain simple fact that the rich think differently [about money] than the poor ... They have what I call a wealthy mindset.
Robert G. Allen
#32. Poor people don't want to stay poor. But there's a misconception that it's somehow "unfair" to poor people, or, worse, racist, to let them in on the main secret of wealthy, educated and successful people: smaller families mean larger lives.
Carl Safina
#33. The rich take life one financial year at a time. The poor take life one meal at a time.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#34. If ever household affections and loves are graceful things, they are graceful in the poor. The ties that bind the wealthy and the proud to home may be forged on earth, but those which link the poor man to his humble hearth are of the true metal and bear the stamp of heaven.
Charles Dickens
#35. Poverty, like obesity, has the tendency to add at least ten years to the appearance of its victims, especially those who are over the age of twenty.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#36. Many a time a poor soul has been put before the dock, to save the neck of the wealthy.
Donald Allen Kirch
#37. Oppression is often the consequence, but seldom or never the means of riches; and though avarice will preserve a man from being necessitously poor, it generally makes him too timorous to be wealthy.
Thomas Paine
#38. 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
#39. There is little to be said in favour of poverty, but it was often an incubator of true friendship. Many people will appear to befriend you when you are wealthy, but precious few will do the same when you are poor
Nelson Mandela
#41. Veal! Trust these bloated plutocrats to eat the flesh of poor, newly-born calves!
Sally Wentworth
#42. Shun, as you would the plague, a cleric who from being poor has become wealthy, or who, from being nobody has become a celebrity.
St. Jerome
#43. In respect of riches, no citizen shall ever be wealthy enough to buy another, and none poor enough to be forced to sell himself.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#44. It's easier to ask for money from the poor than from the wealthy.
Anton Chekhov
#45. Amitav Ghosh's multigenerational saga The Glass Palace, set in colonial Burma, India, and Malaya, tells the story of Rajkumar, once a poor Indian boy, who becomes a wealthy teak trader in Burma, and lovely Dolly, former child-maid to the queen and second princess of Burma.
Nancy Pearl
#46. I bid you to aid one another. Let the wealthy have charity for the poor. Let the strong have mercy on the weak. And I promise, if we are victorious, such a time shall never come again.
Jacqueline Carey
#47. Amateurism is the strongest form of discrimination in sports. Because it discriminates against the underprivileged, it discriminates against the poor. If we want sports to go back to the wealthy, let's make it amateur again.
Carl Lewis
#48. Poverty's simplicity has an inexpensive beauty rooted in it, which the rich can never afford to buy
Munia Khan
#49. A thought crossed his mind: How do you make poor people feel wealthy when wages are stagnant? You give them cheap loans.
Michael Lewis
#50. The world is the world, and we're cast in whatever roles we fall into. It's not my fault I was born wealthy any more than you were born poor.
J. Nelle Patrick
#51. 99% of the casualties linked to climate change occur in developing countries. Worst hit are the world's poorest groups. While climate change will increasingly affect wealthy countries, the brunt of the impact is being borne by the poor, whose plight simply receives less attention.
Rajendra K. Pachauri
#52. What motivates someone who's become wealthy to go out and work in the ghetto with those who are poor? What motivates one who has perfect health to go and work with the sick? If you understand - then you understand the root and cause of all existence.
Frederick Lenz
#53. Make a decision to be successful right now. Most people never decide to be wealthy and that is why they retire poor.
Brian Tracy
#54. The problem is that people basically dangle debt in front of us. And the cost for the poor of course is much higher than for the wealthy.
Dan Ariely
#55. How lame an anti-climax! If the working-class has remained "poor," only "less poor" in proportion as it produces for the wealthy class "an intoxicating augmentation of wealth and power," then it has remained relatively just as poor.
Karl Marx
#56. People who advocate simplicity have money in the bank; the money came first, not the simplicity.
Douglas Coupland
#57. You can't be evangelical and associate yourself with Jesus and what he says about the poor and just have no other domestic concerns than tax cuts for wealthy people.
Jim Wallis
#58. Our dreams are our precious diamonds; without them, we are endlessly poor. Let us perpetually dream to be overly wealthy!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#59. Poverty does not always prevent a rich person from dating someone who is poor, unless the man is the one who is poor.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#60. The invention of the micro-loan was a big surprise to me. Who would have guessed loans of less than $20 made to poor people in undeveloped countries could create thriving local economies? And, even more surprisingly, that they more reliably pay off their debts than the wealthy of the world.
Joel A. Barker
#61. For their holidays: the rich go see the world; the poor go see their parents.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#62. The difference between the very wealthy and the working poor has grown. We raise that minimum wage and we move forward with the vision of this president that we have, which is everyone pays their fair share.
Barbara Boxer
#63. To trust people is a luxury in which only the wealthy can indulge; the poor cannot afford it.
E. M. Forster
#64. What rights have women? ... [they are] punished for breaking laws which they have no voice in making. All avenues to enterprise and honors are closed against them. If poor, they must drudge for a mere pittance if of the wealthy classes, they must be dressed dolls of fashion parlor puppets ...
Ernestine Rose
#65. I don't have to look far and wide to discover that material wealth alone is not enough to build a great nation. There are many countries in the world, especially in developing countries of Africa, Asia and South America that are enormously wealthy in natural resources and yet have a poor population.
Sunday Adelaja
#66. Wealthy women have rights in every country. And poor women don't.
Hillary Clinton
#67. Without plenty, the wealthy lack compassion for the poor, hoarding without sharing. Without law, the strong bully the weak, stealing by force.
Jacqueline Carey
#68. Your mindset matters. If you don't have the mindset of a wealthy person ("How can I afford it?") versus a poor person ("I can't afford it."), you will never achieve wealth.
Robert Kiyosaki
#69. Wealthy people are often criticized for being obsessed with money, but the truth is, it's the poor, working, and middle class that spend the most time thinking about it.
Steve Siebold
#71. We weren't wealthy but we definitely weren't poor. We were incredibly rich because there was a wonderful community in Shepherd's Bush, where I grew up. All my friends were into villainy and crime.
Roger Daltrey
#72. Poor is what people become, not what they are born to be.
Saji Ijiyemi
#73. But what should we do when the highborn and wealthy take to crime? Indeed, if a poor man will spend a year in prison for stealing out of hunger, how high would the gallows need to be to hang the rich man who breaks the law out of greed?
Terry Pratchett
#74. Turn thy crown upside down! You need to feel how it is to kneel as those less fortunate than your noble deal.
Stanley Victor Paskavich
#75. Today's wealthy are poor though they don't know it. They can't bring their possessions to where we're all going.
Elie Wiesel
#76. I've gone from being quite wealthy, when I was defending women, to being quite poor defending men.
Warren Farrell
#77. Don't ever feel sad about who you are. Don't wish to be a daughter or son to a wealthy home, just because you think you're poor. Look! Everybody's poor, i discovered it when i realized that its not everything that President Barrack Obama has.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#78. The only place where we're not segregated in mass is in sports. You go to a football stadium or a basketball arena, and all of America is there: the wealthy, the poor, the black, white, Latino, conservative, liberal, and we all talk about sports.
Jason Whitlock
#79. Millionaires are just as patriotic as poor people. The very wealthy are just as noble and patriotic as the middle class. But nothing has been asked of them in this horrendous recession. And it's time we just ask.
Joe Biden
#80. Too often, wealthy people born on third base blithely criticize the poor for failing to hit home runs. The advantaged sometimes perceive empathy as a sign of muddle-headed weakness rather than as a marker of civilization.
Nicholas Kristof
#81. There really is no correlation between age and one's bank balance. I've met wealthy boys and broke men.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#83. When I was young if a girl married poor, she became a housekeeper and a drudge. If she married wealthy, she became a pet and a doll. - Susan B. Anthony A
Gail Collins
#84. ...the only thing people resent more than poor immigrants are wealthy ones
Patricia Engel
#85. You can see wealth in people no matter what they're wearing. It's in the cut of their chins, a certain gloss to the skin, a drag and pause to their responsiveness. When poor people hear a loud noise, they whip their heads around. Wealthy people finish their sentences, then just glance back.
Ottessa Moshfegh
#86. You can't define what's middle class, what is wealthy, what is poor.
Michael Bloomberg
#87. Essentially, we have a system where wealthy farmers feed the poor crap and poor farmers feed the wealthy high-quality food.
Michael Pollan
#88. A simple pecking order has always characterized mankind's relationship to waste: The wealthy throw out what they do not want, the poor scavenge what they can, and whatever remains is left to rot.
Dan Fagin
#89. At their most eloquent, proponents of neoliberalism sound as if they are doing poor people, the environment, and everybody else a tremendous service as they enact policies on behalf of the wealthy few. The
Noam Chomsky
#90. At the ratings agency Standard & Poor's, where they've knowingly mispriced risk, one guy messages another: 'Let's hope we are all wealthy and retired by the time this house of cards falters,' adding the emoticon ':O)'.
Paul Mason
#91. So long as there are nobles and commoners, the wealthy and the poor, those with power will be heard, and those without ignored. That's the world.
Tamora Pierce
#92. We all know how 'modern democracies take loaves from the wealthy.' It's the slipups in the 'pass them out to the poor' department that inspire a study of Economics.
P. J. O'Rourke
#93. When all the people in the world love one another, then the strong will not overpower the weak, the many will not oppress the few, the wealthy will not mock the poor, the honored will not disdain the humble, and the cunning will not deceive the simple.
Motsi Mabuse
#94. We can be poor in spirit, and I don't even consider myself wealthy, which is an interesting thing, it can be here today and gone tomorrow.
Ann Romney
#95. Well, as you know, there are many things in life that are not fair, that wealthy people can afford and poor people cant. But I dont believe that the Federal Government should take action to try to make these opportunities exactly equal, particularly when there is a moral factor involved.
Jimmy Carter
#96. Mitt Romney is doing what he can. He's trying very hard. He wants to unite America, the rich with the wealthy, the poor with the indigent, and the white with the Caucasian.
David Letterman
#97. Feeble is the character, that bows to inflated ego, arrogance, and whines of affluent, whilst raising itself mercilessly on the humble and underprivileged.
Aniruddha Sastikar
#98. New York is for everybody; it's for the poor, it's for the middle-class, it's for the wealthy. We can't punish any one group and chase them away.
John Catsimatidis
#99. Regular people are used to rudeness; we get it all the time, we're inured to it. The wealthy aren't; it hurts their feelings, or whatever they have in there.
Michael Cleverly
#100. Money is a tremendous advantage in just about everything, but in terms of reproduction, if you're a poor woman and you are infertile, it's like too bad, so sad. And if you are a wealthy woman, you can kind of buy whatever you want.
Jennifer Weiner
