To Be Wealthy Quotes

If you have nothing to do, look at yourself and see if there isn't something close at hand that you can improve. It may make you wealthy, although it is more likely it will make you happy.

You desire to be learned, wealthy, and great, without labor; it is one of the follies still extant in the world.

If most of the breaks go to wealthy people it's because most of the people who pay taxes are wealthy.

Let's get rid of all our subsidies together. Let's join hands as wealthy industrialised nations and say to the world, we're going to get rid of all our agricultural subsidies together.

I think it's time that the wealthy and corporations paid their fair share to support this country.

I want a Supreme Court that understands because you're wealthy and you can give more money to something doesn't mean you have any more rights or should have any more rights than anybody else.

What I have proposed would be paid for by raising taxes on the wealthy, because they have made all the gains in the economy.

It is wrong that corporations and the super wealthy play by a different set of rules.

I am on record as saying that we need to put more money into the Social Security Trust Fund. That's part of my commitment to raise taxes on the wealthy.

[Donald Trump] would give wealthy families 30 cents or 40 cents on the dollar for their nannies, and little or nothing for millions of hardworking families trying to afford child care.

Cutting taxes even more on the wealthy and corporations, that's not going to help anybody except the wealthy and corporations.

I feel strongly that the Supreme Court needs to stand on the side of the American people, not on the side of the powerful corporations and the wealthy.

The leaders in Washington have got to come together in a bipartisan way and do the right thing for the people who are being left behind. We cannot have an America that is only based on the wealthy.

We've only been wealthy in this country for 70 years. Who said we ought to have all this? Is it ordained?

Art collecting has traditionally been the domain of wealthy individuals in search of rewards beyond the purely financial.

I may not be wealthy; I'm living from pay check to pay check, but I get to make movies, which is what I love to do.

The laws are stacked for the wealthy.

It is a wealthy person, indeed, who calculates riches not in gold but in friends.

Wealthy people understand we're one America, and we do best when we're all together.

I always knew the Sixties wasn't a revolution. It really was just a bunch of university students with wealthy parents having fun.

I'd love to have been born into a wealthy family. I might have turned out even more marvellous than I am now.

Imagine his delight after it 'leaked' that he will propose raising taxes on the wealthy by $320 billion over the next 10 years, including increases to the capital gains and inheritance taxes.

The ideal client is the very wealthy man in very great trouble.

I came from a rural background, and I didn't come in contact with a lot of wealthy people.

Nothing is more intolerable than a wealthy woman.

If I won the lottery tomorrow - which would be a real trick, since I haven't entered - and was independently wealthy for the rest of my life, I'd write comic books, because it's what I like doing.

We're going to raise the estate tax for wealthy, very wealthy people.

True, the free market ignores the poor precisely as it does not recognize the wealthy - it is 'no respecter of persons'

The fact that wealthy people or people from privileged backgrounds may wind up in a violent terrorist organization is not new.

I'm not interested in making money, or being wealthy enough to have a villa in Beverly Hills, because in Paris I don't need that much money.

American authors or scientists are prone to consider the wealthy businessman as a barbarian, as a man exclusively intent upon making money.

Far less wealthy industrialized countries have committed to end child poverty, while the United States is sliding backwards. We can do better. We must demand that our leaders do better.

The trouble for most people is they don't decide to get wealthy, they just dream about it.

In general, salary for land surveyors is often similar to that of a professional engineer or lawyer - surveyors are often "comfortable" but not "wealthy."

I'm not independently wealthy.

None is poor but the mean in mind, the timorous, the weak, and unbelieving; none is wealthy but the affluent in soul, who is satisfied and floweth over.

You don't have to be wealthy to run for mayor. I'm a Green Party candidate running for mayor and I'm being taken seriously.

Our dreams are our precious diamonds; without them, we are endlessly poor. Let us perpetually dream to be overly wealthy!

A poor fisherman who knows the beauties of the misty mornings is much richer than a wealthy man who sleeps till noon in his palace!

If you have nothing but compassion, you are still very wealthy; if you have everything but compassion, you are still very poor!

A wealthy and wise man doesn't shake hands with people, he gives an helping hand.

You can't define what's middle class, what is wealthy, what is poor.

You have to remember, I never became successful or wealthy till I was 30.

Private equity has been the purview of super wealthy individuals and institutions.

All of our political parties are bought and paid for by corporate America, Wall Street, and the wealthy interests. The Republican Party more so, but the Democrats take their share of the loot, too.

Essentially, we have a system where wealthy farmers feed the poor crap and poor farmers feed the wealthy high-quality food.

He's a wealthy man, a very wealthy man. If you have a half a million-dollar purchase from Tiffany's, you're not a middle-class American.

I think that growing up very poor in a very wealthy town gave me a sense of being an outsider, and I hated it when I was growing up.

The truth is that my grandfather was quite wealthy, a shipbuilder.

Manhattan is so tailored. It's driven by appealing to the very wealthy and tourists.