Quotes About Wealth

When they see me holding fish, they can see that I am comfortable with kings as well as with paupers.

All the political angst and moral melodrama about getting 'the rich' to pay 'their fair share' is part of a big charade. This is not about economics, it is about politics.

If you go back to 1800, everybody was poor. I mean everybody. The Industrial Revolution kicked in, and a lot of countries benefited, but by no means everyone.

The rich rob the poor, and the poor rob one another.

Money is a poor man's credit card.

The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor.

Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.

My aim is to make the poor look rich and the rich look poor.

If no man could become rich in Peru, no man could become poor.

The differences in income between the poor world and the rich world are so great that people have to be interested.

It's such a Bore Being always Poor.

He who hesitates is poor.

When the rich think about the poor, they have poor ideas.

I've been rich and I've been poor. It's better to be rich.

When I was a child, I was very poor and wanted everything. So when I got money, I began buying things.

Any kid who has two parents who are interested in him and has a houseful of books isn't poor.

A great artist is never poor.

When the idle poor become the idle rich, you'll never know just who is who, or which is which.

Giving a poor person money keeps them poor.

If you are poor, you are not likely to live long.

Money is just the poor man's credit card.

I grew up, initially, poor and then rich and then back to poor when I was in the military and college. And then eventually made some money playing poker.

Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.

Very few people can afford to be poor.