Quotes on Get Rich

How a peaceful, uncrowded place with ample wherewithal stays poor is hard to explain. How a conflict-ridden, grossly over-populated place with no resources whatsoever gets rich is simple. The British colonial government turned Hong Kong into an economic miracle by doing nothing.

There's nobody getting rich writing software that I know of.

If honesty did not exist, we ought to invent it as the best means of getting rich.

Becoming rich isn't as much about getting rich financially as about whom you become, in character and mind, to get rich.

As recently as the 1970s, the idea that the point of life was to get rich and that governments existed to facilitate this would have been ridiculed: not only by capitalism's traditional critics but also by many of its staunchest defenders.

What's the subject of life - to get rich? All of those fellows out there getting rich could be dancing around the real subject of life.

If there were an honorable way to get rich, I’d do it, even if it meant being a stooge standing around with a whip. But there isn’t an honorable way, so I just do what I like.