Wealthy Quotes

I don't approve of what Wall Street and the wealthy have done to this country, but they are the very ones buying my paintings.

We can be poor in spirit, and I don’t even consider myself wealthy, which is an interesting thing. It can be here today and gone tomorrow.

NOBLEMAN, n. Nature's provision for wealthy American minds ambitious to incur social distinction and suffer high life.

I don't want to live in a monoculture of any kind. I don't want to live in a wealthy monoculture, a black monoculture. I don't want to live in an elitist, progressive monoculture.

The struggle against poverty in the world and the challenge of cutting wealthy country emissions all has a single, very simple solution... Here it is: Put a price on carbon.

To be at once exceedingly wealthy and good is impossible.

In this country your guilty until proven wealthy.

Becoming wealthy is not a matter of how much you earn, who your parents are, or what you do.. it is a matter of managing your money properly.

WEALTH AND HOW TO ACHIEVE IT: Let us define the wealthy man as he who has everything he desires. How to reach that happy condition? Two ways

I am working right at both the levels- with the most wealthy clients in the world, but also the poorest. I spend half my time designing for people that have nothing.

True Wealth is being able to do what I want, when I want. If I can do that, I am wealthy.

I made a small fortune. I made a lot of money and I made a lot of other people wealthy.

I don't think most Americans understand that, for certain very wealthy people, our federal income tax system is a subsidy system that makes them richer.

A wealthy man is one who earns $100 a year more than his wife's sister's husband.

Breezy journalistic sentences about wealthy white people unaware that other human beings are real became the rubber stamp product of the elite MFA programs.

The wise man applauds he who he thinks most virtuous; the rest of the world applauds the wealthy.

Ivy Hisselpenny was the unfortunate victim of circumstances that dictated she be only-just-pretty, only-just-wealthy, and possessed of a terrible propensity for wearing extremely silly hats.

The last thing that people want to hear is the plain simple fact that the rich think differently [about money] than the poor ... They have what I call a wealthy mindset.

Anybody can be going from being broke to being wealthy, as I did.

My predecessor taxed wealthy, successful people at a higher rate than ever before. And what happened? They left. And what came of it? Did unemployment drop? No.

I don't begrudge rich people running for office. God knows that FDR and JFK both came from very wealthy families but I think did more to help impoverished Americans than anybody else.

I do not believe wealthy candidates should spend vast resources in their own campaigns.

What's your status?" she asked him. "Healthy, wealthy, and wise. What's yours?" "Ha. Mean, crafty, and rude.

Becoming wealthy is like playing Monopoly.. the person who can accumulate the most assets wins the game.

An aircraft which is used by wealthy people on their expense accounts, whose fares are subsidized by much poorer taxpayers.

Spiritual people should not be ashamed of being wealthy.

It is much harder to become independent if you are wealthy than to become wealthy if you are independent.

I really hope that the philanthropy movement is seen not just as wealthy people giving money away but wealthy people giving away their time, their energy and their ideas.

Americans are optimists. They hope they'll be wealthy someday - and they're positive they can get one more brushful of paint out of an empty can.

But is it just then that the few and the wealthy should be the rulers? And what if they, in like manner, rob and plunder the people, - is this just?

The wealthy man is not he who has money, but he who has the means to live in the luxurious state of early spring.

One basic myth is that rich people get wealthy by earning income. But that's not how most get rich. Most of the gains of the rich people since 1945 have been "capital gains".

The profile of a wealthy person is this hard work, perseverance, and most of all, self-discipline.

The wealthy are generally impressed with an idea, that they shall never stand in need of public charitable relief; but a little less confidence would become them better.

I refuse to feel guilty. I feel guilty about too much in my life but not about money. I went through periods when I had nothing, so somebody in my family has to get stinkin' wealthy.

I've gone from being quite wealthy, when I was defending women, to being quite poor defending men.

Take the job you would take if you were independently wealthy. You're going to do well at it.

If you want a fulfilled life, stop thinking about wealthy people and what they have and you don't. Stop thinking from a place of scarcity.

You definitely meet a lot of extremely powerful, successful, wealthy people in Hollywood who are extremely miserable.

Wealthy people are just as patriotic as poor people, I honest to God believe that.

Success is doing the best you possibly can with what you've been given. There are an alarming number of wealthy failures in the world today.

Among the wealthy, generosity is often merely a kind of shyness.

I learned how to become wealthy because I asked the right questions when I was broke.

It is an essential feature of the just state that the wealthy be kept away from political power and that the politically powerful be kept away from wealth.

A wealthy traveller fears an ambush, while one with empty pockets journeys on in safety.

Successful men don't date up. They are intimidated by wealthy women unless they are blue bloods. Successful men want to always take care of their women, and that means financially.

My father was in real estate, banking, and land management. As family life, it was very conventional, happy, and comfortable. We weren't wealthy, but we were well-off.

Instead, he sat in the parlor of his family's Fifth Avenue mansion, growing older by the minute just like everybody else.

You rich people are all the same. You couldn't care less about the other half of the world. They can all starve to death for all you care!

All privileges based on wealth, and all emnity to honest men merely because they are wealthy, are un-American.