Quotes About Rich

I went out to the kitchen to make coffee – yards of coffee. Rich, strong, bitter, boiling hot, ruthless, depraved. The life-blood of tired men.

Of course to forget the past is to lose the sense of loss that is also memory of an absent richness and a set of clues to navigate the present by; the are is not one of forgetting but letting go. And when everything else is gone, you can be rich in loss.

The very air they breathed was almost a juice.

It was his hopeless hope that some time he would have an experience that would act on his life like alchemy, turning to gold all the dark metals of events, and from that revelation he would go on his way rich with an inextinguishable joy. There had been, of course, no chance of his ever getting it. Literally there wasn't room to swing a revelation in his crowded life.

Where your thinking is, there is your experience; As a man thinks, so is he; That which I feared is come upon me; Think and grow rich: Creative visualization for fun and profit; How to find friends by being who you are.

megachurch televangelists with their mansions and Lear jets, preaching a 'Jesus wants you to be rich' gospel of self-interest

Many people have made money selling magic potions and Ponzi schemes, but few have gotten rich selling the advice, "Don't buy that stuff.

Rich people do this. They have the power and they see no reason not to use it. Men and women are just merchandise, like everything else. Store them, freight them, decant them. Sign at the bottom, please. On

Varian sat silent for a moment, his hands between his knees. All my life I've enjoyed perfect privilege, he said. American, rich, Protestant, Harvard-educated. I could walk down the street anywhere and feel, God help me, like a master.

I want a normal girlfriend. Someone restful. You know anyone like that? I'd volunteer if you were rich, I told him. Like hugely rich. I could be restful for massive sums of money. Flattered. But no.

The raising of wages excites in the worker the capitalist's mania to get rich, which he, however, can only satisfy by the sacrifice of his mind and body.

I trust no rich man who is officiously kind to a poor man.

All of the religions are looking after the poor. At least leave me alone to look after the rich. I am the rich man's guru.

Save your wealth against future calamity. Do not say, "what fear has a rich man of calamity?" Wealth sometimes vanishes away and large accumulations perish.

War so conspicuously benefits rich men and kills the poor ones.

How many times have you heard someone say If I had his money I'd do things my way Hmm, but little they know Hmm, it's so hard to find One rich man in ten with a satisfied mind.

A conservative is a fellow who thinks a rich man should have a square deal.

A man is called a traitor, or liberator. A rich man is a thief or philanthropist. Is one a crusader or ruthless invader? It's all in which label is able to persist.

It is not without a purpose when a rich man greets a poor one with kindness.

I could be the Greta Garbo of comedy, very secluded, but Garbo had a man who was beyond rich to support her.

I want to rob a bank with a BB gun. "Give me all your money or I will give you a dimple! I will be rich, you will be cute. We both win."

... a bad attitude, that the love of money is the root of all evil and the rich are evil and greedy and all that stuff. It's basically socialism and communism.

Some people get rich studying artificial intelligence. Me, I make money studying natural stupidity.

And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human.