Quotes About Wealth

You lose your manners when you are poor.

Live rich, die poor; never make the mistake of doing it the other way round.

There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.

Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family called decent.

This is why I have always said that it would be better if Muslims were poor.

And plenty makes us poor.

I was brought up poor, but I've earned every cent in my bank account.

At home, growing up, we weren't really poor. We had everything we needed, we just didn't have what we wanted.

The globalization that has rescued so many in poor countries has harmed some people in rich countries, as factories and jobs migrated to where labor is cheaper.

By 2035, there will be almost no poor countries left in the world. Almost all countries will be what we now call lower-middle income or richer.

By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.

Live and think like a poor man and you'll always be OK.

I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.

The world needs a person like me so that many other rich people will be able to follow my role model. If they do, many poor people will be helped.

India happens to be a rich country inhabited by very poor people.

You know the funny thing, I don't get along with rich people. I get along with the middle class and the poor people better than I get along with the rich people.

I have a question, a question for the president: Do you hate all rich people, or just rich people who don't contribute to your campaign? Do you hate poor people or do you just hate poor people with jobs?

What's more condescending and corny than someone telling you how much more money they have than you and telling you basically, 'I don't care about poor people,' which is a large part of what you hear of corporate hip-hop on the radio.

There's more poor people in this country than there are rich, and I stick up for the poor people.

'America is such a great country, we have fat poor people.' It's one of those jokes that doesn't hit people right away, because it's so prevalent that we don't get it.

America doesn't have poor people, they have temporarily embarrassed millionaires: meaning there are people who are poor for now but that's all about to end when 'blank' happens, or when the number comes in, or when the invention takes off.

Any industry where there's a lot of money to be made and there are poor people involved, there's going to be some exploitation on some level.

Bad debt is debt that makes you poorer. I count the mortgage on my home as bad debt, because I'm the one paying on it. Other forms of bad debt are car payments, credit card balances, or other consumer loans.

There is growing inequality. The families of the all-powerful Ministers are getting richer. The poor and hard-working Belizeans are getting poorer.