Rich Quotes

Our rich texture of racial, religious and political diversity will be a Godsend in the 21st century. Great rewards will come to those who can live together, learn together, work together, forge new ties that bind together.

William Jefferson (Bill) Clinton

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

Edmund Burke

Nature didn't tell me Don't be poor; and certainly didn't say: Get rich; but she did shout: Always be independent!

Nicolas Chamfort

Poor people have big TV. Rich people have big library.

Jim Rohn

I will tell you how to become rich. Close the doors. Be fearful when others are greedy. Be greedy when others are fearful.

Warren Buffet

Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.

Benjamin Franklin

Do you not see the wealth of the land of the Persians ? Do you not remember the poverty of the land of the Arabs ? Do you not see how the crops in this land cover the earth ? If the holy war were not enjoined by Allah, we should still come and conquer this rich land and exchange the hunger of our deserts for the abundant eating which is now ours.

al-Walid, Khalid ibn

No legacy is so rich as honestly.

William Shakespeare

It is easier to ask of the poor than of the rich.

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

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

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Anyone whose needs are small seems threatening to the rich, because he's always ready to escape their control.

Nicolas Chamfort

The man who dies thus rich dies disgraced.

Andrew Carnegie

Revolution: Political movement which gets many peoples hopes up, lets even more people down, makes almost everybody uncomfortable, and a few, extraordinarily rich. It is widely held in high regard.

Adolfo Bioy Casares

A rich child often sits in a poor mother's lap.

Spanish proverb

Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.

Epictetus