Quotes about Wealthy

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. Votes: 6

I am wealthy in my friends. Votes: 4

We must devastate the avenues where the wealthy live Votes: 4

Being rich is having money; being wealthy is having time. Votes: 4

You aren't wealthy until you have something money can't buy. Votes: 4

If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting. Votes: 4

Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise. Votes: 4

In whose delusional mind is democracy made 'better' by allowing wealthy people to control more of it? Votes: 4

Nearly every glamorous, wealthy, successful career woman you might envy now started out as some kind of schlep. Votes: 4

If you take from the most wealthy and give to the least wealthy, it's good. It starts to balance out. Votes: 4

If you'd be wealthy, think of saving, more than of getting: The Indies have not made Spain rich, because her Outgoes equal her Incomes. Votes: 4

Racism, in the first place, is a weapon used by the wealthy to increase the profits they bring in by paying Black workers less for their work. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

The more I study the wealthy.. in an effort to learn how to help more people around the world become one of them.. I'm stunned by how many people are actually not rich. Votes: 4

Prayer is the open admission that without Christ we can do nothing. And prayer is the turning away from ourselves to God in the confidence that He will provide the help we need. Prayer humbles us as needy and exalts God as wealthy Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

The problem in society is not kids not knowing science. The problem is adults not knowing science. They outnumber kids 5 to 1, they wield power, they write legislation. When you have scientifically illiterate adults, you have undermined the very fabric of what makes a nation wealthy and strong. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

Truly wealthy people develop the habit of "getting rich slow" rather than "getting rich quick." To assure this, they have two rules with regard to money. Rule number one: Don't lose money. Rule number two: If ever you feel tempted, refer back to rule number one, "don't lose money." Votes: 4

There is little favorable to be said about 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. If wealth is a magnet, poverty is a kind of repellent. Yet, poverty often brings out the true generosity in others. Votes: 4

Hate no one, no matter how much they've wronged you. Live humbly, no matter how wealthy you become. Think positively, no matter how hard life is. Give much, even if you've been given little. Keep in touch with the ones who have forgotten you, and forgive who has wronged you, and do not stop praying for the best for those you love. Votes: 4

I usually say the aim of life is to be happy. Our existence is based on hope. Our life is rooted in the opportunity to be happy, not necessarily wealthy, but happy within our own minds. If we only indulge in sensory pleasure, we'll be little different from animals. In fact, we have this marvellous brain and intelligence; we must learn to use it. Votes: 4

Wealthy people always know the exact value of their time. Votes: 3

Healthy people sleep eight hours,Wealthy people sleep four hours. Votes: 3

Wealthy people in Australia tend to give, and give very quietly. Votes: 3

Wealthy women have rights in every country. And poor women don't. Votes: 3

Wealthy people don't even pay taxes. But everybody must pay taxes. Votes: 3

Wealthy people understand we're one America, and we do best when we're all together. Votes: 3

Wealthy people are just as patriotic as poor people, I honest to God believe that. Votes: 3

Wealthy people have not disappeared, they are just not so willing to show off their wealth. Votes: 3

Difference between being Rich and Being Wealthy? TimeNothing is more important than TIMEcan't buy it back ever. Votes: 3

Wealthy Americans who benefit hugely from a system rigged in their favor react with hysteria to anyone who points out just how rigged the system is. Votes: 3

Wealthy the spirit that knows its own flight. Stealthy the hunter who slays his own fright. Blessed the traveler who journeys the length of the light Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

I'm not independently wealthy. Votes: 0

I'm a very wealthy man. Votes: 0

Be yourself and become wealthy! Votes: 0

You're 'wealthy' if you don't worry Votes: 0

Becoming wealthy is about accumulating wealth. Votes: 0

The wealthy have nothing left except money. Votes: 0

The laws are stacked for the wealthy. Votes: 0

I truly believe anyone can be wealthy. Votes: 0

I always wanted to be wealthy. I did. Votes: 0

In this country your guilty until proven wealthy. Votes: 0

Nothing is more intolerable than a wealthy woman. Votes: 0

A Cosmic Ordering beginning makes a wealthy ending. Votes: 0

Spiritual people should not be ashamed of being wealthy. Votes: 0

In fact, being wealthy often brings even more anxiety. Votes: 0

That Rome was comparatively great and wealthy is certain. Votes: 0

All my life I've been prejudiced against wealthy people. Votes: 0

Pay with compliments and you will always be wealthy. Votes: 0

The life of the wealthy is one long Sunday. Votes: 0

The life of the wealthy is one long Sunday Votes: 0

To be at once exceedingly wealthy and good is impossible. Votes: 0

I'm not ridiculously wealthy, but I don't squander money either. Votes: 0

The art the wealthy use in business is to jump. Votes: 0

I have no wealthy or popular relations to recommend me. Votes: 0

Those are the memories that made me a wealthy soul. Votes: 0

The wealthy seldom possess wealth: oftener they are possessed by it. Votes: 0

Some of the greatest social reformers of our time were wealthy. Votes: 0

Among the wealthy, generosity is often merely a kind of shyness. Votes: 0

Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions. Votes: 0

The truth is that my grandfather was quite wealthy, a shipbuilder. Votes: 0

You eat the wealthy, sir, and it will be your last meal. Votes: 0

I know a lot of wealthy people that have never been audited. Votes: 0

To be wealthy and honored in an unjust society is a disgrace. Votes: 0

The ideal client is the very wealthy man in very great trouble. Votes: 0

A wealthy mindset minimizes expenses in self-entertainment and maximizes investments in self-education. Votes: 0

In my opinion, all boyfriends should turn out to be secretly wealthy. Votes: 0

Private equity has been the purview of super wealthy individuals and institutions. Votes: 0

You can't define what's middle class, what is wealthy, what is poor. Votes: 0

You have to remember, I never became successful or wealthy till I was 30. Votes: 0

Aspiration, it seems, is in danger of becoming the preserve of the wealthy. Votes: 0

There are people who are not wealthy because they want to be comfortable. Votes: 0

People have always been fascinated by the foibles of the wealthy and privileged. Votes: 0

The wealthy are always surrounded by hangers-on; science and art are as well. Votes: 0

Since biblical times, and probably before, the wealthy have been envied and condemned. Votes: 0

We`re going to raise the estate tax for wealthy, very wealthy people. Votes: 0

You are not truly wealthy unless you earn money while you are sleeping Votes: 0

People hate me because I am a multifaceted, talented, wealthy, internationally famous genius. Votes: 0

If the wealthy get wealthier, no one has to become one penny poorer. Votes: 0

I think I'm getting wealthy in ways that don't count at the bank. Votes: 0

It's easier to ask for money from the poor than from the wealthy. Votes: 0

Anybody can be going from being broke to being wealthy, as I did. Votes: 0

I do not believe wealthy candidates should spend vast resources in their own campaigns. Votes: 0

Africa is wealthy in natural resources; the problem is they are not optimally utilized. Votes: 0

To be wealthy you must develop a burning desire for wealth and financial independence. Votes: 0

You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. Votes: 0

We are looking at a future where to a first approximation, everyone is wealthy. Votes: 0

I'm not revealing any deep, hidden secret that there are wealthy people in Asia. Votes: 0

Manhattan is so tailored. It's driven by appealing to the very wealthy and tourists. Votes: 0

I know a guy who gave up smoking cigarettes, consuming, sex, and wealthy meals. Votes: 0

It's quite confusing being one of the less wealthy people at a posh place. Votes: 0

For a nation to be truly wealthy, it must possess a wealth of virtues. Votes: 0

Its quite confusing being one of the less wealthy people at a posh place. Votes: 0

I am not rich, but I am wealthy and my wealth is my love. Votes: 0

The wealthy man is the man whois much, not the one who has much Votes: 0

Early to rise and early to bed makes a man healthy, wealthy, and dead. Votes: 0

I come from very conservative parents, and we weren't particularly wealthy, but we were comfortable. Votes: 0

A wealthy traveller fears an ambush, while one with empty pockets journeys on in safety. Votes: 0

The only people who become wealthy by being concerned with the future are insurance companies. Votes: 0

In Russia only those who are loyal to the people in power can become wealthy. Votes: 0

Forget about letting nature taking its course to make you wealthy, Cosmic Ordering works faster. Votes: 0

To be truly wealthy, we must be able to give more than what we receive. Votes: 0

It is a wealthy person, indeed, who calculates riches not in gold but in friends. Votes: 0

A wealthy man is one who earns $100 a year more than his wife's sister's husband. Votes: 0

Wealth, if not a mere flash in the pan, compels the wealthy to become wealthier. Votes: 0

Seven wealthy towns contend for Homer dead, Through which the living Homer begged his bread Votes: 0

Businesses owned by responsible and organized merchants shall eventually surpass those owned by wealthy rulers. Votes: 0

Sound investing can make you very wealthy if you're not in too big a hurry Votes: 0

There is no dramatic difference in happiness on the part of people who are wealthy. Votes: 0

A wealthy and wise man doesn't shake hands with people, he gives an helping hand. Votes: 0

A wealthy and wise man doesn't shake hands with people, he gives an helping hand. Votes: 0

The profile of a wealthy person is this hard work, perseverance, and most of all, self-discipline. Votes: 0

I have enough money to get by. I'm not independently wealthy, just independently lazy, I suppose. Votes: 0

A lot of really smart, wealthy people know that [slashing taxes on the wealthy hasn't worked.] Votes: 0

The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor. Votes: 0

In 2001, Republicans used reconciliation to pass President Bush's $1.35 trillion tax cut that mainly benefited the wealthy. Votes: 0

To be very wealthy, you have to program yourself as a machine with targets to reach. Votes: 0

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy - and Jill a wealthy widow. Votes: 0

The press is owned by wealthy men who only want certain things to reach the public. Votes: 0

It is wrong that corporations and the super wealthy play by a different set of rules. Votes: 0

It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die. Votes: 0

I learned how to become wealthy because I asked the right questions when I was broke. Votes: 0

The trouble for most people is they don't decide to get wealthy, they just dream about it. Votes: 0

There's an interesting study that says wealthy people get up three hours before their first outside appointment. Votes: 0

NOBLEMAN, n. Nature's provision for wealthy American minds ambitious to incur social distinction and suffer high life. Votes: 0

Becoming wealthy is like playing Monopoly.. the person who can accumulate the most assets wins the game. Votes: 0

You definitely meet a lot of extremely powerful, successful, wealthy people in Hollywood who are extremely miserable. Votes: 0

Treat others with respect and you will always be wealthy, because your community is your real currency. Votes: 0

What's your status?" she asked him. "Healthy, wealthy, and wise. What's yours?" "Ha. Mean, crafty, and rude. Votes: 0

I came from a wealthy family. I made over my share of the estate to various charities. Votes: 0

I think it's time that the wealthy and corporations paid their fair share to support this country. Votes: 0

I've gone from being quite wealthy, when I was defending women, to being quite poor defending men. Votes: 0

Every decision you make takes you one step closer to being wealthy ... or one step further away. Votes: 0

I know a lot of wealthy people in West Los Angeles. Money doesn't necessarily make you happy. Votes: 0

Everywhere you will find that the wealth of the wealthy springs from the poverty of the poor. Votes: 0

A person is both wise and wealthy when you master the art of appreciating what you already have. Votes: 0

How wealthy the gods would be if we remembered the promises we made when we were in danger. Votes: 0

To trust people is a luxury in which only the wealthy can indulge; the poor cannot afford it. Votes: 0

My composition often goes toward the black middle class or the black super-wealthy or strong historical black figures. Votes: 0

Art collecting has traditionally been the domain of wealthy individuals in search of rewards beyond the purely financial. Votes: 0

Take the job you would take if you were independently wealthy. You're going to do well at it. Votes: 0

Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing. Votes: 0

Flint must be an extremely wealthy town: I see that each of you bought two or three seats. Votes: 0

For many wealthy people, giving a tenth is a way of robbing God. Their tithe becomes a tip. Votes: 0

To the degree we can live without the things of this world, to that degree we are wealthy. Votes: 0

I came from a rural background, and I didn't come in contact with a lot of wealthy people. Votes: 0

We should not allow wealthy people, including corporate criminals, to hide their assets and avoid paying their bills. Votes: 0

All privileges based on wealth, and all emnity to honest men merely because they are wealthy, are un-American. Votes: 0

The wise man applauds he who he thinks most virtuous; the rest of the world applauds the wealthy. Votes: 0

The Skakel family, when they married into the Kennedys, was so wealthy, they could have purchased the Kennedy family. Votes: 0

How many millionaires do you know who have become wealthy by investing in savings accounts? I rest my case. Votes: 0

To this day, good English usually means the English wealthy and powerful people spoke a generation or two ago. Votes: 0

A wealthy man can preserve his wealth only by continuing to serve the consumers in the most efficient way. Votes: 0

For any politician who didn't enter office a wealthy man, nothing says 'I take bribes' like a Rolex watch. Votes: 0

A poverty-stricken nation with a great art is a greater nation than a wealthy nation with a poverty-stricken art. Votes: 0

You don't have to be like most people around you, because most people never become truly rich and wealthy. Votes: 0

It is much harder to become independent if you are wealthy than to become wealthy if you are independent. Votes: 0

I am not a wealthy woman. I wish to hell I was, but I never had a wealthy man. Votes: 0

We do not ask more of the wealthy to punish success; we do it to create more success stories. Votes: 0

Though avarice will prevent a man from being necessitously poor, it generally makes him too timorous to be wealthy. Votes: 0

Everybody that is born on the surface of this earth, is wealthy. That wealth is the wealth of time. Votes: 0

I made my money the old-fashioned way. I was very nice to a wealthy relative right before he died. Votes: 0

Being wealthy when no one else is, is like being the only one at the party with a drink. Votes: 0

I'm really calling for major jobs, because the wealthy are going create tremendous jobs. They're going to expand their companies. Votes: 0

A beautiful vacuum filled with wealthy monogamists, all powerful and members of the best families all drinking themselves to death. Votes: 0

If I were really really ridiculously wealthy, I wouldn't buy a mansion, just tiny apartments in every city I love. Votes: 0

Our dreams are our precious diamonds; without them, we are endlessly poor. Let us perpetually dream to be overly wealthy! Votes: 0

Cutting taxes even more on the wealthy and corporations, that's not going to help anybody except the wealthy and corporations. Votes: 0

I have known healthy, wealthy people who were depressed, and people with critical illnesses who could honestly attest to joy. Votes: 0

Essentially, we have a system where wealthy farmers feed the poor crap and poor farmers feed the wealthy high-quality food. Votes: 0

An aircraft which is used by wealthy people on their expense accounts, whose fares are subsidized by much poorer taxpayers. Votes: 0

History is written by the victors, which is certainly true, but it's also written by the wealthy and the literate. Votes: 0

Sometimes people who get wealthy when they are very, very young, it's a curse to them. They don't realize it. Votes: 0

The government of our great country belongs to all of the people and not just a handful of the wealthy. Votes: 0

If most of the breaks go to wealthy people it's because most of the people who pay taxes are wealthy. Votes: 0

When it comes to giving tax breaks to the wealthy of this country, the President has a heart of gold. Votes: 0

I'm not a wealthy person because I was never a star. I was a working actor and a supporting actor. Votes: 0

I made a small fortune. I made a lot of money and I made a lot of other people wealthy. Votes: 0

My mom just didn't put a very high premium on me being like really famous or really wealthy or anything. Votes: 0

We've only been wealthy in this country for 70 years. Who said we ought to have all this? Is it ordained? Votes: 0

Elitist' doesn't need to mean wealthy and conservative; it can also mean specialised and rarefied, and that's no bad thing. Votes: 0

If wealth is a blessing from God, then salvation was designed for the wealthy. Money can never please your soul. Votes: 0

Every time a congressman or pundit says its 'class warfare' to increase taxes on the wealthy, it's a massive lie. Votes: 0

Where in the wide history of the world do we find art created by the excessively wealthy, powerful, or educated? Votes: 0

Democrats single out glaring examples of tax preferences or spending priorities that favor the wealthy and Republicans cry 'class warfare!' Votes: 0

Never before in our country's history has a generation been so empowered, so wealthy, so privileged - and yet so empty. Votes: 0

The fact that wealthy people or people from privileged backgrounds may wind up in a violent terrorist organization is not new. Votes: 0

The standard of living of the common man is higher in those countries which have the greatest number of wealthy entrepreneurs. Votes: 0

Now, twenty years old, I come out and I go back to Greenwich Village. Now, of course, I'm a wealthy man. Votes: 0

I never thought about becoming wealthy. It never crossed my mind. What really motivated me was to try to accomplish something. Votes: 0

People are looking for a leader independent of powerful, wealthy special interests that always push to the front of the line. Votes: 0

I think the Republican Party is accurately defined as a party that looks out for the interests of the very wealthy Votes: 0

Unless you are wealthy, you cannot afford to act or direct one play and remain unemployed the rest of the time. Votes: 0

You desire to be learned, wealthy, and great, without labor; it is one of the follies still extant in the world. Votes: 0

True Wealth is being able to do what I want, when I want. If I can do that, I am wealthy. Votes: 0

A man is not wealthy simply by the contents of his pockets alone, but instead by the richness of his heart. Votes: 0

Fidelity surveyed a group with at least $1 million investment assets excluding real estate and retirement. 42% of them did not FEEL wealthy. Votes: 0

We got no wealthy black people. We got rich people. Shaq is rich. The guy who signs his checks is wealthy. Votes: 0

American authors or scientists are prone to consider the wealthy businessman as a barbarian, as a man exclusively intent upon making money. Votes: 0

When I started working on Southwest Airlines, I kid you not, only people flying on business and very wealthy people ever flew. Votes: 0

People with looks are lovely. People with brains are witty. People with cash are wealthy. But people with God are truly happy. Votes: 0

If you have nothing but compassion, you are still very wealthy; if you have everything but compassion, you are still very poor! Votes: 0

Taxes are what we pay for civilized society, for modernity, and for prosperity. The wealthy pay more because they have benefitted more. Votes: 0

I always knew the Sixties wasn't a revolution. It really was just a bunch of university students with wealthy parents having fun. Votes: 0

Human rights groups are locked in a fierce competition for big checks from wealthy donors and they need to generate big headlines. Votes: 0

When you talk about taxing the rich, you're taxing capital, and taxing capital results in damage to more than just the wealthy. Votes: 0

Trickle-down did not work. It got us into the mess we were in, in 2008 and 2009. Slashing taxes on the wealthy hasn't worked. Votes: 0

Buying real estate is not only the best way, the quickest way, the safest way, but the only way to become wealthy. Votes: 0

A thought crossed his mind: How do you make poor people feel wealthy when wages are stagnant? You give them cheap loans. Votes: 0

I'd love to have been born into a wealthy family. I might have turned out even more marvellous than I am now... Votes: 0

It was a great childhood. We weren't especially wealthy or anything, but I felt I had a kind of safety and freedom. Votes: 0

Early to bed and early to risemakes a year healthy wealthy and wise. to get better future wish U Happy New Year !!! Votes: 0

Coming from where I came from, it was unimaginable to ever be wealthy. That was just too far out of my reach. Votes: 0

Make a decision to be successful right now. Most people never decide to be wealthy and that is why they retire poor. Votes: 0

How unfair the fate which ordains that those who have the least should be always adding to the treasury of the wealthy. Votes: 0

It's just blind luck when a woman is born into a wealthy family and attends the best colleges and joins top sororities. Votes: 0

I think that the poorest of the poor... look up to wealthy and successful Indians with some degree of respect and pride. Votes: 0

True, the free market ignores the poor precisely as it does not recognize the wealthy - it is 'no respecter of persons' Votes: 0

I'm against very wealthy ­people attempting to or influencing elections. But as long as it's doable I'm going to do it. Votes: 0

With a blade at your throat, a well-connected uncle or a wealthy mother could not save you. Only you could save yourself. Votes: 0

If I was wealthy I'd never do anything but poke around in ruined cities all over the world - and probably get snake-bit. Votes: 0

I obviously enjoy being wealthy. It's enabled me to have a career that I've chosen and not one that I've been forced into. Votes: 0

A nation is not made wealthy by the childish accumulation of shiny metals, but it enriched by the economic prosperity of it's people. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Until 1943 I received no stipend. I was able to support myself as my mother was the daughter of a relatively wealthy cotton manufacturer. Votes: 0

Being some country lad from the banks of the River Boyne, I never wanted to be wealthy. I was driven by artistic intention. Votes: 0

More important than the HOW we achieve financial freedom, is the WHY. Find YOUR reasons why you want to be free and wealthy. Votes: 0

As the gout seems privileged to attack the bodies of the wealthy, so ennui seems to exert a similar prerogative over their minds. Votes: 0

You don't have to be wealthy to run for mayor. I'm a Green Party candidate running for mayor and I'm being taken seriously. Votes: 0

I was born into a very important family in Japan. My grandfather was a descendant of the Emperor, and we were very wealthy. Votes: 0

Im gonna walk super, super slow to when I turn 40 or something. To me, walking and floating slow represents how wealthy you are! Votes: 0

You can't hate yourself happy, You can't criticize yourself thin, You can't shame yourself wealthy. Real change begins with self-love and self care. Votes: 0

I'm a little lavish I must admit. But I'm not really concerned with money. Being rich is not my goal, being wealthy is. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

These wealthy people were very interested in contemporary music. They wanted to help diffuse it and get it to be known to other people. Votes: 0

Make sure your life is a rare entertainment! It doesn't take anything drastic. You needn't be gorgeous or wealthy or smart, just very enthusiastic! Votes: 0

Put in the superlatives yourselves, I'm running out. Money doesn't thrill me or make me play better because there are benefits to being wealthy. Votes: 0

This welfare for wealthy companies wastes taxpayer dollars, harms the environment, and makes a mockery of the recent reductions in federal social spending programs. Votes: 0

Public sentiment is not observed. The wealthy and powerful gain a ready hearing, but the plodding, suffering, unorganized complaining multitude are spurned and derided. Votes: 0

Being wealthy is often a powerful predictor that people spend less time doing pleasurable things and more time doing compulsory things and feeling stressed. Votes: 0

The wealthy man is not he who has money, but he who has the means to live in the luxurious state of early spring. Votes: 0

Donald Trump really believes that the more you help wealthy people, the better off we'll be and that everything will work out from there. Votes: 0

Breezy journalistic sentences about wealthy white people unaware that other human beings are real became the rubber stamp product of the elite MFA programs. Votes: 0

Conservatism is not about tradition and morality, hasn't been for many decades... It is about the putative biological and spiritual superiority of the wealthy. Votes: 0

Since FDR's New Deal, corporations and wealthy families have been non-stop finding new ways to get tax breaks, deregulation and entitlements from the government. Votes: 0

Earning success is hard. The process is laborious, tedious, sometimes even boring. Becoming wealthy, influential, and world-class in your field is slow and arduous. Votes: 0

You will make some mistakes but, if you learn from those mistakes, those mistakes will become wisdom and wisdom is essential to becoming wealthy. Votes: 0

I don't approve of what Wall Street and the wealthy have done to this country, but they are the very ones buying my paintings. Votes: 0

If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived. Votes: 0

If you want to be healthy study health... if you want to be wealthy, study wealth... if you want to be happy, study happiness. Votes: 0

Shun, as you would the plague, a cleric who from being poor has become wealthy, or who, from being nobody has become a celebrity. Votes: 0

What I have proposed would be paid for by raising taxes on the wealthy, because they have made all the gains in the economy. Votes: 0

...in respect of riches, no citizen shall ever be wealthy enough to buy another, and none poor enough to be forced to sell himself. Votes: 0

There is no virtue in poverty and illness. we all have been created to be healthy and wealthy with more than enough for everyone. Votes: 0

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!" Votes: 0

Poor is the man who thinks money makes him wealthy. Love is the true treasure, and the more you give away, the more you have. Votes: 0

Architecture does not change anything. It's always on the side of the wealthy. The important thing is to believe that it can make life better. Votes: 0

I'm convinced that unless you have some public financing of elections, you are never going to remove the power of wealthy interests over elected officials. Votes: 0

The property boom has made us all feel wealthy, but unfortunately it has lulled many of those nearing retirement into a false sense of security. Votes: 0

I think it's important to accept all the ways that we're absurdly lucky. I'm a white male from a safe city in a wealthy country. Votes: 0

My premise is not to tax to destroy the wealth of the wealthy; it's to increase the wealth of the bottom and the middle class. Votes: 0

Success is doing the best you possibly can with what you've been given. There are an alarming number of wealthy failures in the world today. Votes: 0

Knowing that my ancestry had all been quite wealthy and owned their own businesses probably left me with the ambition to replicate what they'd done. Votes: 0

Anytime you see a constrained market, where consumption is limited to those who have special skills or are wealthy, that signals an opportunity for innovation. Votes: 0

Ivy Hisselpenny was the unfortunate victim of circumstances that dictated she be only-just-pretty, only-just-wealthy, and possessed of a terrible propensity for wearing extremely silly hats. Votes: 0

the wealthy ... live in marble mausoleums surrounded by the suspicions and neuroses that have replaced the medieval moats which once isolated so-called aristocrats from reality. Votes: 0

In general, salary for land surveyors is often similar to that of a professional engineer or lawyer - surveyors are often "comfortable" but not "wealthy." Votes: 0

If you want a fulfilled life, stop thinking about wealthy people and what they have and you don't. Stop thinking from a place of scarcity. Votes: 0

Contrary to the myth that Mr. Bush cut taxes only for the wealthy, the 2001 tax cut reduced taxes for every income-tax payer in the country. Votes: 0

The wealthy, Jesus says, can only get into heaven through the eye of a needle; the same applies to churches wealthy in numbers and programs. Votes: 0

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! Votes: 0

I have about concluded that wealth is a state of mind, and that anyone can acquire a wealthy state of mind by thinking rich thoughts. Votes: 0

Fix yourself upon the wealthy. In a word, take this for a golden rule through life: Never, never have a friend that is poorer than yourself. Votes: 0

The President is destroying the fabric of America with a combined policy of war, tax cuts for the wealthy, and reductions in spending for domestic needs. Votes: 0

For every person seeking greatness, there are hundreds more charged with safeguarding mediocrity. If you want to be wealthy, stop taking financial advice from broke people. Votes: 0

The President is destroying the fabric of America with a combined policy of war, tax cuts for the wealthy, and reductions in spending for domestic needs. Votes: 0

Our ultimate aim in life is not to be healthy, wealthy, prosperous, or problem free. Our ultimate aim in life is to bring glory to God. Votes: 0

I was so lucky because I started working very young. And my father was very wealthy and I didn't need to work. I did my films. Votes: 0

For students today, only 10 percent of children from working-class families graduate from college by the age of 24 as compared to 58 percent of upper-middle-class and wealthy families. Votes: 0

Readily people do not accept any ordinary to behave like an extraordinary unless and until some extraordinary but preferably wealthy approves him to be not ordinary Votes: 0

With less competition to fear, companies are emboldened to raise their mark-ups and profits. That lifts share prices and thus the wealth of already wealthy shareholders. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

At the same time, Republicans are pushing a $70 billion tax package that will overwhelmingly benefit the most wealthy Americans and actually increases the deficit by $16 billion. Votes: 0

I'm not interested in making money, or being wealthy enough to have a villa in Beverly Hills, because in Paris I don't need that much money. Votes: 0

I may not be wealthy; I'm living from pay check to pay check, but I get to make movies, which is what I love to do. Votes: 0

Among civilized peoples, especially the very wealthy population of the United States of America, women have become objects of luxury who consume but do not produce. Votes: 0

Americans are optimists. They hope they'll be wealthy someday - and they're positive they can get one more brushful of paint out of an empty can. Votes: 0

I tried to mug a wealthy man, but was unsuccessful because I was out of coffee cups. I wish I was less poor and more pour. Votes: 0

I have come to discover that the reason why they are so wealthy and prosperous is not because they were lying on the couch all day. Votes: 0

Readily people do not accept any ordinary to behave like an extraordinary unless and until some extraordinary but preferably wealthy approves him to be not ordinary. Votes: 0

There are many Saudi women doctors, and there are many wealthy and powerful and well-educated Saudi women who circumvent the restrictions put upon them, quietly or otherwise. Votes: 0

My father was in real estate, banking, and land management. As family life, it was very conventional, happy, and comfortable. We weren't wealthy, but we were well-off. Votes: 0

Each and every year, the United States loses an estimated $100 billion a year in tax revenues due to offshore tax abuses by the wealthy and large corporations. Votes: 0

The rights of the individual are greatly prized in the developed world, but in many other regions they are considered a luxury reserved for the impossibly wealthy. Votes: 0

The foundations set up as tax shelters by the wealthy tended to spend as much money glorifying the donors' names and providing cushy jobs for their friends" Votes: 0

There's a small amount of super-wealthy people that want to maintain their billions and billions of dollars. Those are the people who are really making the decisions. Votes: 0

The life in Italy is the life of a wealthy country: consumptions haven't diminished, it's hard to find seats on planes, our restaurants are full of people. Votes: 0

The predominant quality of successful people is optimism.... Your level of optimism is the very best predictor of how happy, healthy, wealthy, and long-lived you will be. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

She didn't want to alienate herself from the very wealthy man that was about to offer her a job by declining the polite offer of a drink. Votes: 0

Rappers aren't the really rich ones. We all have nice houses with studios and cars, but you need a piece of someone's business to be super wealthy. Votes: 0

If it was true that lower taxes for the rich and more wealth to the wealthy leat to job creation, today we would be drowning in jobs. Votes: 0

My parents were neither wealthy nor academic, but we lived comfortably and they were always extremely supportive of my academic efforts and aspirations, both at school and university. Votes: 0

I don't have any expensive habits. I'm not a car collector or any of that nonsense. But I'd love to be incredibly wealthy for no reason at all. Votes: 0

What do wealthy people do with their money? They can only buy so many cars, houses, and steak dinners. So we either give it away or invest it. Votes: 0

Becoming wealthy is not a matter of how much you earn, who your parents are, or what you do.. it is a matter of managing your money properly. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The wealthy are generally impressed with an idea, that they shall never stand in need of public charitable relief; but a little less confidence would become them better. Votes: 0

The reason that so few people are financially independent today is that they place many negative roadblocks in their heads. Becoming wealthy is, in fact, a mind game. Votes: 0

It would be very interesting to make a survey around the world, from wealthy countries to the most advanced countries to see what influence Americans have had. I Votes: 0

Iraq is a very wealthy country. Enormous oil reserves. They can finance, largely finance, the reconstruction of their own country. And I have no doubt that they will. Votes: 0

I feel strongly that the Supreme Court needs to stand on the side of the American people, not on the side of the powerful corporations and the wealthy. Votes: 0

Wealth comes from the production and exchange of goods and services. If someone efficiently produces a good that many people willingly trade their money for, he becomes wealthy. Votes: 0

The nice part about being wealthy is I can do what I want to do. If it doesn't work, it doesn't work. But I have to be honest. Votes: 0

If happiness could be bought, we'd probably be unhappy at the price tag. If only the secret of happiness was as simple as getting wealthy and spending more. Votes: 0

You don't have to be the smartest person to become successful and wealthy. Many of the most successful and wealthy people in society are not the most educated people. Votes: 0

I believe this; When you have a needy person in your neighbourhood, it's an opportunity for you to become a wealthy and healthy person! Giving time is blessing time! Votes: 0

The poetry of heroism appeals irresistibly to those who don't go to a war, and even more to those whom the war is making enormously wealthy. It's always so. Votes: 0

I believe this; "When you have a needy person in your neighbourhood, it's an opportunity for you to become a wealthy and healthy person!" Giving time is blessing time! Votes: 0

Though I'm not the first king of controversy, I am the worst thing since Elvis Presley. To do black music so selfishly, and use it to get myself wealthy. Votes: 0

Where some people are very wealthy and others have nothing, the result will be either extreme democracy or absolute oligarchy, or despotism will come from either of those excesses Votes: 0

Most people seem unaware that corporate influence and wealth has taken over public policy, such that government policy now favors the wealthy few at the expense of the people. Votes: 0

For the fifth year in a row, the Bush budget cuts city core services to pay for wealthy tax breaks. And once again, the mayor's requests were not funded. Votes: 0

Where some people are very wealthy and others have nothing, the result will be either extreme democracy or absolute oligarchy, or despotism will come from either of those excesses. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

[Donald Trump] would give wealthy families 30 cents or 40 cents on the dollar for their nannies, and little or nothing for millions of hardworking families trying to afford child care. Votes: 0

In todays uncertain economy, the safest solution to be wealthy, be in total control and enjoy freedom for you and your family is to have multiple streams of income. Votes: 0

I really hope that the philanthropy movement is seen not just as wealthy people giving money away but wealthy people giving away their time, their energy and their ideas. Votes: 0

If I had married someone wealthy when I was young, I would have sunk like a stone. Being skint makes life quite clear. You've got to take that job. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

We need wealthy dogs off the seats of power. They're taking us back to feudalism and I really don't want that. But I'm very far from being a socialist. Votes: 0

When none but the wealthy had watches, they were almost all very good ones; few are now made which are worth much, but everybody has one in his pocket. Votes: 0

And who will deny that a world in which the wealthy are powerful is still a better world than one in which only the already powerful can acquire wealth? Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I'm tired of feeling like I should be grateful when popular culture deigns to acknowledge the experiences of people who are not white, middle class or wealthy, and heterosexual. Votes: 0

The struggle against poverty in the world and the challenge of cutting wealthy country emissions all has a single, very simple solution... Here it is: Put a price on carbon. Votes: 0

Amazons Jeff Bezos, Facebooks Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, and Steve Jobs did not start out wealthy, and actually added to income inequality, but we all benefit from their creative effort. Votes: 0

The townspeople outside the reservations had a very superior attitude toward Indians, which was kind of funny, because they weren't very wealthy; they were on the fringes of society themselves. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Democracy is premised, in some measure, on majority rule, and democracy is difficult in a situation of concentrated inequalities in which a large, impoverished majority confronts a small, wealthy oligarchy. Votes: 0

Health insurance needs to be affordable and available for everyone, not just the wealthy. I will always fight to improve the access, level of care, and affordability of health care. Votes: 0

Imagine his delight after it 'leaked' that he will propose raising taxes on the wealthy by $320 billion over the next 10 years, including increases to the capital gains and inheritance taxes. Votes: 0

The fundamental problem with the immigration system in our country is that it serves the needs of wealthy donors, political activists and powerful, powerful politicians. It's all you can do. Votes: 0

Far less wealthy industrialized countries have committed to end child poverty, while the United States is sliding backwards. We can do better. We must demand that our leaders do better. Votes: 0

Amazon's Jeff Bezos, Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, and Steve Jobs did not start out wealthy, and actually added to income inequality, but we all benefit from their creative effort. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Roots cannot grow into trees if there are no supernatural elements in the soil. Man cannot grow wealthy and famous if he doesn't contribute to either, the good or evil. Votes: 0

Don't expect anyone else to support you. Maybe you'll have a trust fund. Maybe you'll have a wealthy spouse. But you never know when either of them might run out. Votes: 0

There never has yet existed a wealthy and civilized society in which one portion of the community did not, in point of fact, live on the labor of the other. Votes: 0

I'm going to fight until the end. My husband is worth it. He wanted me to have it. He was worth a lot. He was a very, very wealthy man. Votes: 0

I am on record as saying that we need to put more money into the Social Security Trust Fund. That's part of my commitment to raise taxes on the wealthy. Votes: 0

All the haters are just jealous, so they're trying to bring me down. I'm young, handsome, successful, wealthy. You could say I'm a role model "“ I'm the American dream! Votes: 0

Only Los Angeles could produce a creature such as myself. New York is a boutique city. You have to be wealthy and of privilege to be able to live comfortably there. Votes: 0

A nation's wealth is too serious a matter to be left to the wealthy. The riches of a nation belong to all, to be shared among all for the general welfare. Votes: 0

The idea is that angel investors are supposed to be wealthy people supporting people who need funds, typically who are not wealthy, and don't have the ability to do it themselves. Votes: 0

He who is always in a hurry to be wealthy and immersed in the study of augmenting his fortune has lost the arms of reason and deserted the post of virtue. Votes: 0

We should be encouraging people to earn a lot of money. I do not know one wealthy person who does not spend money - and most of them employ other people. Votes: 0

But is it just then that the few and the wealthy should be the rulers? And what if they, in like manner, rob and plunder the people, - is this just? Votes: 0

I am working right at both the levels- with the most wealthy clients in the world, but also the poorest. I spend half my time designing for people that have nothing. Votes: 0

Because, I figured that, because I was a successful man, I was wealthy, I was, you know, seemingly intelligent - even that I am not intelligent enough to ask for help. Votes: 0

There are probably more annoying things than being hectored about African development by a wealthy Irish rock star in a cowboy hat, but I can't think of one at the moment. Votes: 0

If I were to generalize a bit, I would say that the ultra rich in Asia live on a scale that far surpasses the wealthy in the U.S. or Europe. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Those who thank God much are the truly wealthy. So our inner happiness depends not on what we experience but on the degree of our gratitude to God, whatever the experience. Votes: 0

This administration is cutting the programs that our Nation and its citizens need most, while dissolving the safety nets created to protect the elderly and less fortunate in this wealthy Nation. Votes: 0

South Africa is labouring to find its revolutionary path; the colours of the Rainbow Nation have difficulty blending together; the wealthy elites (white, black or Indian) profit from de facto segregation. Votes: 0

Africa is really a place for the wealthy traveler. It's got some nice hotels, but they're very expensive hotels. It doesn't really cater to the backpacker or to the overland traveler. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

We're not a democracy. It's a terrible misunderstandin g and a slander to the idea of democracy to call us that. In reality, we're a plutocracy: a government by the wealthy. Votes: 0

The inequalities are greater now than in '92. Some states have equalized per-pupil spending but they set the 'equal level' very low, so that wealthy districts simply raise extra money privately. Votes: 0

There are party leaders, big corporation, Wall Street. There are very wealthy individuals who kind of represent where the Democratic Party, the official Democratic Party was and to some extent still is. Votes: 0

Managing your money does not depend upon becoming wealthy or declaring vows of poverty. Rather, it is about creating stability and sufficiency - a balanced flow of monetary energy through your life. Votes: 0

Investment that only goes to enrich an already wealthy elite bent on monopolizing both economic and political power cannot contribute toward egalite and justice -- the foundation stones for a sound democracy. Votes: 0

To be financially wealthy you must have a purpose for your life. In other words, without purpose, you'll never know when you have enough money, and you can never be financially wealthy. Votes: 0

It is evident that in the period designated as that of the kings, when Rome commenced her career of conquest, she was, for that time and country, a great and wealthy city. Votes: 0

If you insist on digging for the truth, you can start at the cemetery. But not the one on the wealthy side of town, because I already dug up everything of value. Votes: 0

[W]hat suffers in the atmosphere of immediacy is analysis. What suffers in this search for speed is depth. The media in the wealthy world are becoming increasingly simplistic, superficial, and celebrity-focused. Votes: 0

Donald Trump got himself very far to the left. When he was considering running for president in 2000, he was for a 13 percent wealth tax on wealthy people to retire the national debt. Votes: 0

The wealthy have installed their slaves in the highest spheres of the state. The banks are privately owned. They are concerned solely with profits. They have no interest in the common good. Votes: 0

We're going to make America wealthy again, because if you don't do that, it just - it sounds harsh to say, but we have to build up the wealth of our nation. Votes: 0

I don't begrudge rich people running for office. God knows that FDR and JFK both came from very wealthy families but I think did more to help impoverished Americans than anybody else. Votes: 0

If you can marry a handsome man or a beautiful woman and you have two choices and both people are equally nice or obnoxious, you might as well marry the wealthy one. Votes: 0

If you can marry a handsome man or a beautiful woman and you have two choices and both people are equally nice or obnoxious, you might as well marry the wealthy one. Votes: 0

The Congo is very wealthy from oil money but is not paying its debts and at the same time is applying for special status at the World Bank. That's shocking and disingenuous. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Elections have to have at least a little meaning. Obama ran on income tax hikes for the wealthy. People knew they were voting for that. They 'want' that. And it's good policy. Votes: 0

Being a successful and wealthy man doesn't mean that you have to forget about the place where you were brought up and the people who struggleds to make you a better person Votes: 0

Congress had the opportunity to extend tax relief to working families without increasing the deficit. Instead, we were handed a bill that favors the wealthy and eliminates deductions that benefit the middle class. Votes: 0

I believe that the only people who really, truly benefit from any of the policies of Republicans are the wealthy. I'm in that 1 percent tax bracket, but I'm not a man of wealth. Votes: 0

Colombia is potentially a very wealthy country. It has tremendous resources, but its wealth is highly concentrated. Most of the population lives in misery, which has led to violent confrontation throughout the century. Votes: 0

Physical comforts cannot subdue mental suffering, and if we look closely, we can see that those who have many possessions are not necessarily happy. In fact, being wealthy often brings even more anxiety. Votes: 0

A wealthy landowner cannot cultivate and improve his farm without spreading comfort and well-being around him. Rich and abundant crops, a numerous population and a prosperous countryside are the rewards for his efforts. Votes: 0

The Tiffany lamp is an American icon bridging the immigrants, settlement houses, and the slums of the Lower East Side and the wealthy industrialists of upper Manhattan, the Gilded Age and its excesses. Votes: 0

There are very powerful and wealthy special interests who want to privatize or dismember virtually every function that government now performs, whether it is Social Security, Medicare, public education or the Postal Service. Votes: 0

My final comment is that I still believe this man [John D. Rockefeller] is corrupt and he used unfair ways to become wealthy, all he cared about was his money and wasn't considered. Votes: 0

Capitalism is against the things that we say we believe in - democracy, freedom of choice, fairness. It's not about any of those things now. It's about protecting the wealthy and legalizing greed. Votes: 0

In your search for a rich or wealthy man to complete you, standup to the challenges of deserving a right man, and what you will have in the end is a well-rounded partner. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The historian assesses that the investment of the wealthy classes in the Bank of England wedded them to the fate of the nation as a whole and to the maintenance of its stability. Votes: 0

Just because you aren't rich or wealthy doesn't mean that you aren't successful. Life is full so many challenges, which pushing beyond each one of them is truly a success of its own Votes: 0

The system that had grown up in most states is that wealthy districts with an affluent population can afford to spend a lot more on their public school systems than the poorer districts. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

In 'Unfair Advantage: The Power of Financial Education' and 'Why A Students Work for C Students,' I reveal the secrets of the wealthy and what schools will never teach you about money. Votes: 0

I don't want to live in a monoculture of any kind. I don't want to live in a wealthy monoculture, a black monoculture. I don't want to live in an elitist, progressive monoculture. Votes: 0

My characters always start well in movies. Almost every movie I've done starts with a happy marriage, it's all beautiful, wealthy, whatever... and then of course my husband leaves me, and everything falls apart. Votes: 0

I think being a wealthy member of the establishment is the antithesis of cool. Being a countercultural revolutionary is cool. So to the extent that you've made a billion dollars, you've probably become uncool. Votes: 0

Most people never get wealthy simply because they are not trained financially to recognize opportunities right in front of them. The rich have learned to recognize opportunities as well as how to create them Votes: 0

Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise." He planned his routine around waking up at 5 a.m. and asking himself "What good shall I do this day? Votes: 0

I want a Supreme Court that understands because you're wealthy and you can give more money to something doesn't mean you have any more rights or should have any more rights than anybody else. Votes: 0

Many years ago, I contracted an intimacy with a Mr. William Legrand. He was of an ancient Huguenot family, and had once been wealthy; but a series of misfortunes had reduced him to want. Votes: 0

Greece has been, in many ways, a partially dysfunctional society. For example, the wealthy barely pay taxes... to an extent, that's true elsewhere, including the United States, but it's been pretty extreme in Greece. Votes: 0

The anti-individualist enemies that Ayn Rand battled are still the enemy, but they've shifted their line of attack. Political collectivists are no longer much interested in taking things away from the wealthy and creative. Votes: 0

All of our political parties are bought and paid for by corporate America, Wall Street, and the wealthy interests. The Republican Party more so, but the Democrats take their share of the loot, too. Votes: 0

It is a myth that higher taxes lead to less demand and slower growth. In the first three decades after World War II, US top tax rates on the wealthy were never below 70 percent. Votes: 0

You don't really see ugly people that are old, or a bit grotty and smelly, in the media. If a Martian came down, they would think we were all tall, thin, attractive and wealthy. Votes: 0

If you really look, it's not a tax - it's really not a great thing for the wealthy. It's a great thing for the middle class. It's a great thing for companies to expand. Votes: 0

If I hadn't become a golfer, I doubt I'd be wealthy, because I don't have the sort of ego that drives a person all day long. I might have wound up driving a tractor. Votes: 0

Of course; a nurse wouldn't have been quite so bold in her speech. Not to a duke's heir. Not even to a wealthy tradesman who held the power of her employment in his too-large hands. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

If we don't have an egalitarian, equitable, and peaceful society, being very wealthy isn't worth much. If I can make a little bit of a dent in addressing this issue, I'll have done my service. Votes: 0

A salary does not make a person rich, but only gives him the opportunity to take care of hisneeds. It is not a means of becoming wealthy. It is a means of fulfilling our potential. Votes: 0

I think that's most unfortunate about our Democratic system, that you're confining it to people who are either very wealthy in their own right or have capacity to gain access to large amounts of money. Votes: 0

Edith Vonnegut behaved like a guest in her children's lives. To her way of thinking, parenting came under the general heading of household tasks, which, as a wealthy woman, she could pay others to do. Votes: 0

Rain which falls upon the sea is useless; so is food for one who is satiated; in vain is a gift for one who is wealthy; and a burning lamp during the daytime is useless. Votes: 0

I'm from a working-class background, and I've experienced that worry of not having a job next week because the unions are going on strike. I know that because I don't come from a wealthy background. Votes: 0

Cleveland has a very bad reputation, but there's a lot of stuff that's left over from when there were very wealthy people - the Art Museum and a world class symphony that's still world class. Votes: 0

Even though sugar was very expensive, people consumed it till their teeth turned black, and if their teeth didn't turn black naturally, they blackened them artificially to show how wealthy and marvelously self-indulgent they were. Votes: 0