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Quotes About Rich

Crazy people who are productive are geniuses. Crazy people who are rich are eccentric. Crazy people who are neither productive nor rich are just plain crazy. Geniuses and crazy people are both out in the middle of a deep ocean geniuses swim, crazy people drown. Most of us are sitting safely on the shore. Take a chance and get your feet wet.
~ Michael J. Gelb
What are the odds that people will make smart decisions about money if they don't need to make smart decisions--if they can get rich making dumb decisions? The incentives on Wall Street were all wrong; they're still all wrong.
~ Michael Lewis
The pie is increasing in size, so everyone gets a bigger slice, but when the rich's already bigger slice increases in size, the relative amount of wealth accumulates more on the upper end, making the incomes of those in the middle and bottom feel smaller.
~ Michael Shermer
Bannon didn't much question Donald Trump's bona fides, or behavior, or electability, because, in part, Trump was just his latest rich man. The rich man is a fixed fact, which you have to accept and deal with in an entrepreneurial world—at least a lower-level entrepreneurial world. And, of course, if Trump had had firmer bona fides, better behavior, and clear electability, Bannon would not have had his chance.
~ Michael Wolff
In an age when all successful political candidates are surrounded by, if not at the beck and call of, difficult, even sociopathic, rich people pushing the bounds of their own power—and the richer they were, the more difficult, sociopathic, and power-mad they might be—Bob and Rebekah Mercer were quite onto themselves.
~ Michael Wolff
In an age when all successful political candidates are surrounded by, if not at the beck and call of, difficult, even sociopathic, rich people pushing the bounds of their own power—and the richer they were, the more difficult, sociopathic, and power-mad they might be—Bob and Rebekah Mercer were quite onto themselves. If Trump's ascent
~ Michael Wolff
In an age when all successful political candidates are surrounded by, if not at the beck and call of, difficult, even sociopathic, rich people pushing the bounds of their own power—and the richer they were, the more difficult, sociopathic, and power-mad they might be—
~ Michael Wolff
There are only two families in the world, the Haves and the Have-Nots.
~ Miguel de Cervantes
There are only two families in the world, the Haves and Have-Nots.
~ Miguel de Cervantes
Attention can be invested in innumerable ways, ways that can make life either rich or miserable.
~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
How can it help a person learn to rid himself of anxieties and fears and thus become free of the controls of society, whose rewards he can now take or leave? As suggested before, the way is through control over consciousness, which in turn leads to control over the quality of experience. Any small gain in that direction will make life more rich, more enjoyable, more meaningful.
~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
At the end of the day, the best measure of the humanity of any society is the life and happiness of its children. We live in a rich society with poor children, and that should be intolerable.
~ Unknown
We live in a rich society with poor children, and that should be intolerable.
~ Unknown
The wealthy Japanese have already sent their families to the country. They've already converted their cash into gold. The rich do not care about politics; they will say anything to save their skin. You're not rich, but you're smart, and I'm telling you that you have to leave today.
~ Min Jin Lee
He knew many rich men, strong men, and brave men, yet he was most impressed with educated men who could write well.
~ Min Jin Lee
At first, Comrade Professor described the injustices that the farmers had suffered at the hands of the rich. The time had come, he said, when the villagers could redress their wrongs. He called on the poor farmers to have no mercy on the karakuls, and, what struck us most, he called on us to destroy them. Killing the rich, he declared, was the only way for poor farmers to attain a better and more prosperous life.
~ Unknown
The truth is Canada is a cloud-cuckoo-land, an insufferably rich country governed by idiots, its self-made problems offering comic relief to the ills of the real world out there, where famine and racial strife and vandals in office are the unhappy rule.
~ Mordecai Richler
The nurse who gave 1st dose of COVID vaccine to ministers will get rich if she does not open the truth else suffer
~ Unknown
Do not confuse the word pity with love. The rich pity the poor. If pity is the key to the gates of heaven, then it is impossible to accept this price. No one wants to become a weakling either.
~ Unknown
Every prayer is a need or a lack of something. That's why the rich man doesn't ask for food, but for good health throughout the year.
~ Unknown
Newcomers to success always seek attention and be seen in the newspapers, while the truly rich people hide behind closed doors.
~ Unknown
Poverty seems to be the root of all evil. Whereas the children of rich parents are spoiled daily.
~ Unknown
Wealth is like water. To learn to swim, you must first dive in; this is the thin line that separates the rich from the poor. Risk taking.
~ Unknown
Hope is what you get when you suddenly realize that a different worldview is possible, a worldview in which the rich, the powerful, and the unscrupulous do not after all have the last word.
~ Unknown