Being Rich Quotes (page 3)

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• imagination
• strong
• top

You do admit that, if wealth was divided up equally, in a few years there would be rich and poor again just the same. The hard-working man would come to the top, the wastrel sink to the bottom.- Every one admits that.- Your Socialists don't.- My Socialists do. Yours mayn't; but I strongly suspect yours of being not Socialists, but ninepins, which you have constructed for your own amusement. I can't imagine any living creature who would bowl over quite so easily. E. M. Forster

• rich
• famous
• job

There aren't many downsides to being rich, other than paying taxes and having relatives asking for money. But being famous, that's a 24 hour job right there. Bill Murray

• rich
• character
• work

My goal was just to work regularly. I didn't ever expect to be rich or famous. I wanted to be a working character actor. Harrison Ford

• best
• time
• rich

Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor. Euripides

• rich
• manly
• needed

Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich. Ralph Waldo Emerson

• famous
• mirror
• rich

I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous. Ani DiFranco

• wishes
• rich
• wish

He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year. Leonardo da Vinci

• rich
• manners
• manner

There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

• rich
• cans
• would

Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor. Samuel Johnson

• women
• personal
• enough

You don't have to be rich and famous. You just have to be an ordinary person, doing extraordinary things. I'd like more people to know that it's there. Women's achievements still aren't recognised enough in many areas. Joan Armatrading

• rich
• financial
• richness

It's better to be rich than poor if only for financial reasons. Woody Allen

• fate
• history
• rich

The fate of a single man can be rich with significance, that of a few hundred less so, but the history of thousands and millions of men does not mean anything at all, in any adequate sense of the word. Stanislaw Lem

• rich
• fruit
• costly

One is fruitful only at the cost of being rich in contradictions. Friedrich Nietzsche

• society
• creativity
• writing

You don't write a novel out of sheer pity any more than you blow a safe out of a vague longing to be rich. A certain ruthlessness and a sense of alienation from society is as essential to creative writing as it is to armed robbery. Nelson Algren

• kiss
• gold
• summer

I remember once walking out hand in hand with a boy I knew, and it was summer, and suddenly before us was a field of gold. Gold as far as you could see. We knew we'd be rich forever. We filled our pockets and our hair. We were rolled in gold. We ran through the field laughing and our legs and feet were coated in yellow dust, so that we were like golden statues or golden gods. He kissed my feet, the boy I was with, and when he smiled, he had a gold tooth. It was only a field of buttercups, but... Jeanette Winterson