Riches do not respond to wishes. They respond to definite plans, backed by definite desires.

Canada is rich in hydrocarbons and other natural resources… India’s requirements and Canada’s surplus are a perfect match.

With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches.

A nation that becomes rich by means of trade must be industrious, frugal, and prudent.

If western culture is shown to be rich, it is because, even before the Enlightenment, it has tried to ‘dissolve’ harmful simplifications through inquiry and the critical mind.

History is rich with adventurous men, long on charisma, with a highly developed instinct for their own interests, who have pursued personal power – bypassing parliaments and constitutions, distributing favours to their minions, and conflating their own desires with the interests of the community.

American journalism is a class institution, serving the rich and spurning the poor.

The paradise of the rich is made out of the hell of the poor.

Oh! just, subtle, and mighty opium! that to the hearts of poor and rich alike, for the wounds that will never heal, and for ‘the pangs that tempt the spirit to rebel,’ bringest an assuaging balm; eloquent opium! that with thy potent rhetoric stealest away the purposes of wrath; and to the guilty man, for one night givest back the hopes of his youth, and hands washed pure of blood..

There are three things that earthly riches can never do; they can never satisfy divine justice, they can never pacify divine wrath, nor can they every quiet a guilty conscience. And till these things are done man is undone

I have not the smallest doubt that, if we had a purely democratic government here, the effect would be the same. Either the poor would plunder the rich, and civilisation would perish; or order and property would be saved by a strong military government, and liberty would perish

Many cry to the Lord that they may win riches, that they may avoid losses; they cry that their family may be established, they ask for temporal happiness, for worldly dignities; and, lastly, they cry for bodily health, which is the patrimony of the poor. For these and suchlike things many cry to the Lord; hardly one cries for the Lord Himself! How easy it is for a man to desire all manner of things from the Lord and yet not desire the Lord Himself! As though the gift could be sweeter than the Giver!

The world tempts us either by attaching us to it in prosperity, or by filling us with fear of adversity. But faith overcomes this in that we believe in a life to come better than this one, and hence we despise the riches of this world and we are not terrified in the face of adversity

Who are to be the electors of the Federal Representatives? Not the rich, more than the poor.

We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.

Don’t flatter the rich, or appear to willing before the great.

Texas is a great place to be rich and a terrible place to be poor. It’s got the highest percentage of people without health insurance in the country. If you get injured on the job, good luck getting workers’ comp. And God help you if you’re poor and mentally ill.

Rich people march on Washington every day.

The love for baseball is a love that transcends time and place, connecting us to a rich history

Why do we need to make the rich richer to make them work harder but make the poor poorer for the same purpose?

Since the 1980s, we have given the rich a bigger slice of our pie in the belief that they would create more wealth, making the pie bigger than otherwise possible in the long run. The rich got the bigger slice of the pie all right, but they have actually reduced the pace at which the pie is growing.

Making rich people richer doesn’t make the rest of us richer.

God must love the rich or he wouldn’t divide so much among so few of them.

New York is like a divorcée looking for a richer second country

There is a duty to improve the lot of others. Charity isn’t personal, it’s public. It’s owed not just to God and salvation but to the nation: the idea that America itself deserves its citizens’ charity, not because it is poor but because it could always be richer.

It tires me to talk to rich men. You expect a man of millions, the head of a great industry, to be a man worthhearing; but as a rule they don’t know anything outside their own business.

Being rich is an obstacle to loving. When you are rich, you want to continue to be rich, and so you end up devoting all your time, all your energy, in your daily life to stay rich

The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price, peace at any price, safety first instead of duty first and love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life.

I am not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.

It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble.

To be rich is not the end, but only a change, of worries.

When a youth was giving himself airs in the Theatre and saying, ‘I am wise, for I have conversed with many wise men,’ Epictetus replied, ‘I too have conversed with many rich men, yet I am not rich!’.

Asked, Who is the rich man? Epictetus replied, “He who is content.

I never met one interesting mind that was not richly endowed with inadmissible deficiencies.

My appeal to the rich is, deal liberally with your poor brethren, and use your means to advance the cause of God. The worthy poor, who are made poor by misfortune and sickness, deserve your especial care and help.

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.

High achievers spot rich opportunities swiftly, make big decisions quickly and move into action immediately. Follow these principles and you can make your dreams come true.

No man is rich who is unsatisfied, but who wants nothing possess his heart’s desire.

People whistle me because I am good-looking, rich and a great footballer. They are jealous of me.

Some fans keep booing and whistling at me because I’m handsome, rich and a great player. They envy me.

A snow year, a rich year.

In his heart everyone knows that the only people who get rich from the “get rich quick” books are those who write them.

I will cross that bridge when it comes. I am not stupid. I am a very bright guy. I know that in the fighting game, you get people who get brain damage and do themselves long-term harm. I am into it in a big way, and I am good at it, and I am going to get very, very rich and then I will get out and we will see what comes after that.

There are people who have money and people who are rich

Luxury lies not in the richness of things, but in the absence of vulgarity

Become conscious of being conscious. Say or think “I am”, and add nothing to it. Be aware of the stillness that follows the “I am”. Sense your presence, the naked unveiled, unclothed beingness. It is untouched by young or old, rich or poor, good or bad, or any other attributes. It is the spacious womb of all creation, all form.

I ain’t got no money – But I’m rich on personality.

Come to think of it, I am more than a little tired of hearing about how the Jews ‘stole’ land from Arabs in Palestine. The facts are quite different. A lot of good money changed hands, and a lot of Arabs became very rich indeed.

The Indians are so free about the riches under their possession.

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You don’t come into cooking to get rich.

No man can get rich himself unless he enriches others.

Let architects sing of aesthetics that bring Rich clients in hordes to their knees; Just give me a home, in a great circle dome Where stresses and strains are at ease.

I always was a rich person because money’s not related to happiness.

Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.

The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.

The few own the many because they possess the means of livelihood of all . The country is governed for the richest, for the corporations, the bankers, the land speculators, and for the exploiters of labor. The majority of mankind are working people. So long as their fair demands – the ownership and control of their livelihoods – are set at naught, we can have neither men’s rights nor women’s rights. The majority of mankind is ground down by industrial oppression in order that the small remnant may live in ease.

It was self-serving politicians who convinced recent generations of Americans that we could all stand in a circle with our hands in each other’s pockets and somehow get rich.

I didn’t want to be like all these socialites – they sit at home, and go to the debutant ball, and marry some rich guy and that’s it. That’s all they do. I wanted to do my own thing so I could buy whatever I want, do whatever I want.

What is a normal childhood? We weren’t rich, we were pretty middle-class. My dad survived from job to job; with him taking care of so many relatives, he couldn’t save any money.

Every man should make his son or daughter learn some useful trade or profession, so that in these days of changing fortunes of being rich today and poor tomorrow they may have something tangible to fall back upon. This provision might save many persons from misery, who by some unexpected turn of fortune have lost all their means.

Poverty is a hard heritage; but those who trust in the LORD are made rich by faith. Let us, when we have short commons below, think of the royal table above.

Our Father’s wagons rumble most heavily when they are bringing us the richest freight of the bullion of his grace.

Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

Whether one is rich or poor, educated or illiterate, religious or non-believing, man or woman, black, white, or brown, we are all the same. Physically, emotionally, and mentally, we are all equal. We all share basic needs for food, shelter, safety, and love. We all aspire to happiness and we all shun suffering. Each of us has hopes, worries, fears, and dreams. Each of us wants the best for our family and loved ones. We all experience pain when we suffer loss and joy when we achieve what we seek. On this fundamental level, religion, ethnicity, culture, and language make no difference.

Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.

Poverty in itself does not make men into a rabble; a rabble is created only when there is joined to poverty a disposition of mind, an inner indignation against the rich, against society, against the government.

You wanna know how rich people like me stay rich? By staying on a budget

I’ve been hanging around a lot of people that’s wealthy, that is rich, that is famous. One thing I learned is that no matter how much money you have, no matter how big you are, how famous you are, they will still end up stealing your charger and your lighter.

I’m not getting  involved with the hype. I’m too rich to get into a fight.

No matter what anyone may say about making the rich and the corporations pay the taxes, in the end, they come out of the people who toil. It is your fellow workers who are ordered to work for the government every time an appropriation bill is passed. The people pay the expense of the government, often many times over, in the increased cost of living. I want taxes to be less, so that the people may have more

If you set yourself to it, you can live the same life, rich or poor. You can keep on with your books and your ideas. You just got to say to yourself, “I’m a free man in here” – he tapped his forehead – “and you’re all right.”

However rich I may have been, I have always lived like a poor man.

You need not apologize for being brilliant, talented, gorgeous, rich, or smart.

You is born lucky, and it’s better to be born lucky than born rich, cause if you is lucky you can git rich, but if you is born rich and you ain’t lucky you is liables to lose all you got.

Some folks call tennis a rich people’s sport or a white person’s game. I guess I started too early because I just thought it was something fun to do. Later, I discovered there was a lot of work to being good in tennis. You’ve got to make a lot of sacrifices and spend a lot of time if you really want to achieve with this sport, or in any sport, or in anything truly worthwhile.

I’ve been rich and I’ve been poor, and rich is better.

Even you are not rich enough, Sir Robert, to buy back your past. No man is

Yes, we are overcharged for everything nowadays. I should fancy that the real tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self-denial. Beautiful sins, like beautiful things, are the privilege of the rich

The rich cannot accumulate wealth without the co-operation of the poor in society.

I don’t want to get rich and die trying.

Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.

Don’t waste your time, it doesn’t make you rich.

Riches can all be lost, but that happiness in your own heart can only be veiled, and it will bring you happiness again, as long as you live.

Contentment makes poor men rich. Discontent makes rich men poor.

Two nations; between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other’s habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets; who are formed by a different breeding, are fed by a different food, are ordered by different manners, and are not governed by the same laws . . . . THE RICH AND THE POOR.

The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him his own.

No man becomes rich unless he enriches others

When it comes to love, compassion, and other feelings of the heart, I am rich.

To be able to give away riches is mandatory if you wish to possess them. This is the only way that you will be truly rich.

If people continue to feel like Democrats are looking after poor folks and Republicans are looking after rich folks and nobody is looking after me, then we don’t get a lot of stuff done. And the trend lines evidence the fact that folks have gotten squeezed. And obviously, 2007, 2008 really ripped open for people how vulnerable they were.

What I believe unites the people of this nation, regardless of race or region or party, young or old, rich or poor, is the simple, profound belief in opportunity for all – the notion that if you work hard and take responsibility, you can get ahead.

Who is richer? The man who is seen, but cannot see? Or the man who is not being seen, but can see?

Is the rich world aware of how four billion of the six billion live? If we were aware, we would want to help out, we’d want to get involved.

Donald Trump is the Honey Boo Boo of rich people.

The general idea of the rich helping the poor, I think, is important.

Love, unconquerable, Waster of rich men, keeper Of warm lights and all-night vigil And the one word that brings the infinite to the doo

I’ve been a rich man, and I’ve been poor man. And I choose rich every fucking time.

Let me tell you something. There is no nobility in poverty. I’ve been a poor man, and I’ve been a rich man. And I choose rich every Time. Coz at least as a rich man when I have to face my problems, I show up in the back of a limo wearing a 2,000 Dollars suits and a 40,000 dollars gold watch.

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier

Rice is great if you’re really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something.

I’d rather be poor and happy than rich and alone

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate’s loot on Treasure Island.