Quotes About Rich

The middle class creates us rich people, not the other way around.

The Clinton administration cared a lot about the middle class and the poor. But it also cared a lot - too much, in retrospect - about the rich.

Cory Booker became a millionaire because this is how the economy works for people of his class: Rich people give other rich people money to do nothing, simply because they 'deserve' it.

Sameness doesn't present us with metaphorical possibilities, whereas difference - from the average, the typical, the expected - is always rich with possibility.

The median price paid by millionaires for their most recent acquisition was only $31,367. The typical price paid by decamillionaires was $41,997, nowhere near the $75,000 figure it is assumed that rich people spend on cars.

Si quieres comportarte como una persona deslumbrantemente rica, alístate para gastar como mínimo el doble o el triple de lo que el típico millonario paga.

I am not among those who fear the people. They, and not the rich, are our dependence for continued freedom.

As in the general society, fertility tends to be greatest where people are poorest: "The rich get richer, and the poor have children." In

she had seen the poverty of the rich and the wealth of the poor, and the value of bringing the rich and poor together

They don't think much o'laughter, the rich,' Clarrie observed. 'Nor the powerful, for that matter. When did a teacher ever encourage her class to laugh? When a maid giggles, chances are she'll get give the order of the boot. And do you know why? Laughter puts folk down, that's why. It makes the pompous look foolish and the proud trip and fall.

We bask in the scent of cinnamon before Mom puts a scone her plate. 'His name is Rich,' she says. I select a scone too. 'I like a man with an adjective for a name.

Whatever the truth about the Deliverer, she will remain in my mind as she was shown on that statue, and all the other statues and murals, songs and stories: riding, at the head of her own swift cavalry, with a growing migration behind her and a decadent, vulnerable, defenceless and rich continent ahead; and, floating bravely above her head and above her army, the black flag on which nothing is written.

I push through the seething crowd to the UN car. The driver takes me past the slums by the harbor, up the hill to the lush suburbs where the rich, light-skinned Haitians live, far above poverty.

I'd carry the mail for you, Ethel, Stop running around with that pup, He's got a car, sure, and jack to throw Like water but what does he want? What do they all want? something easy, Something that somebody else worked for. Ethel, lay off rich kids, you'll end dirty.

Tenho amigos tão bonitos. Ninguém suspeita, mas sou uma pessoa muito rica.

The only people who benefit from lawsuits are lawyers. I think we made a couple of them rich.

Het vermogen van de rijkste vierhonderd Amerikanen is op dit moment groter dan dat van de armste honderdvijftig miljoen Amerikanen gezamenlijk.

He made a gesture and a man came over from the other side of the room with the bottle, and refilled my snifter.  Having people around to do that is why one strives to be rich.

The atmosphere of the place soothed her automatically; the rich lantern-lights, the sheer scent of paper and leather, and the fact that everywhere she looked, there were books, books, beautiful books.

The risk-bearing role of the rich cannot be performed so well by anyone else. The benefits of capitalism still depend on capitalists. The other groups on the pyramid of wealth should occasionally turn from the spectacles of consumption long enough to see the adventure on the frontiers of the economy above them - an adventure not without its note of nobility...

A standing prick hath no conscience. And if that standing prick is attached to Bruce Robertson then it hath less than no conscience. You can't afford a conscience in this life, that has become a luxury for the rich and a social ball and chain for the rest of us. Even if I wanted one, which I certainly do not, I wouldn't have the faintest idea as how to go about getting one.

Politics shouldn't be what it has exclusively become: a pastime for bored, rich, narcissistic sociopaths, useless for any other kind of employment and hardwired only to syphon off the resources of a community into the pockets of their elite sponsors.

God is imagined as a rich, old gentleman who is very happy that things are going so smooth here on Earth that he had created.

Justice! Is it just for everyone to have the same amount? The lazy the same as those who work? The foolish the same as the intelligent? Even animals don't live like that! It's not a matter of rich and poor, it's a matter of strong and weak.