Quotes on Rich

I wanted to produce a book that would demonstrate not only the rich diversity of people who answered to Anders's command but also the extraordinary variety of their experiences and emotions: from death to despair, fear and longings and eventually to hope.

Men become wise just as they become rich, more by what they save than by what they receive.

Faith is in the soul. Belief is thought. Faith is so rich. Faith gives me my spiritual self.

The rich man is not one who is in possession of much, but one who gives much.

In a world of global dependencies with no corresponding global polity and few tools of global justice, the rich of the world are free to pursue their own interests while paying no attention to the rest.

In progressive societies the concentration[of wealth] may reach a point where the strength of number in the many poor rivals the strength of ability in the few rich; then the unstable equilibrium generates a critical situation, which history has diversely met by legislation redistributing wealth or by revolution distributing poverty.

He mocks the people who proposes that the government shall protect the rich and that they in turn will care for the laboring poor.

What's keeping you from being rich? In most cases it's simply a lack of belief. In order to become rich, you must believe you can do it, and you must take the actions necessary to achieve your goal.

Obviously, there were ways to have made a lot more money and to have had more leisure. But I wouldn't choose that. I feel rich in ways that are unique and that I would never trade for tens of millions of dollars in the bank.

Wilderness is the raw material out of which man has hammered the artifact called civilization. Wilderness was never a homogenous raw material. It was very diverse. The differences in the product are known as cultures. The rich diversity of the worlds cultures reflects a corresponding diversity. In the wilds that gave them birth.

There's no palette as rich as a garden. And the intensity of it - I make this statement all the time: You can't plan nature; you court her.

Let the fruition of things bless the possession of them, and take no satisfaction in dying but living rich.

That's the thing: There are so many art songs in jazz. It's a much more rich experience for the singer than people think.

Once upon a time there lived in Berlin, Germany, a man called Albinus. He was rich, respectable, happy; one day he abandoned his wife for the sake of a youthful mistress; he loved; was not loved; and his life ended in disaster. This is the whole of the story and we might have left it at that had there not been profit and pleasure in the telling; and although there is plenty of space on a gravestone to contain, bound in moss, the abridged version of a man's life, detail is always welcome.

If every man took only what was sufficient for his needs, leaving the rest to those in want, there would be no rich and no poor.

Almost all rich veins of original and striking speculation have been opened by systematic half-thinkers.

I realised how rich I had become and I asked myself, 'Do I really want to be the richest person in the cemetery?'

Wealth often takes away chances from men as well as poverty. There is none to tell the rich to go on striving, for a rich man makes the law that hallows and hollows his own life.

Come, let us pity those who are better off than we are. Come, my friend, and remember that the rich have butlers and no friends, And we have friends and no butlers. (excerpt from 'The Garrett')

Losing love is so rich a philosophical ordeal that it makes a hairdresser into a rival of Socrates.

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.