Quotes on Rich

The best thing a man can do for his culture when he is rich is to endeavor to carry out those schemes which he entertained when he was poor

As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit

The rich invest in time, the poor invest in money.

As soon as a man recognizes that he has drifted into age, he gets reminiscent. He wants to talk and talk; and not about the present or the future, but about his old times. For there is where the pathos of his life lies - and the charm of it. The pathos of it is there because it was opulent with treasures that are gone, and the charm of it is in casting them up from the musty ledgers and remembering how rich and gracious they were.

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.

That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.

There are many definite methods, honest and dishonest, which make people rich; the only instinct I know of which does it is that instinct which theological Christianity crudely describes as the sin of avarice.

No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Perhaps you know some well-off families who do not seem to suffer from their riches. They do not overeat themselves; they find occupations to keep themselves in health; they do not worry about their position; they put their money into safe investments and are content with a low rate of interest; and they bring up their children to live simply and do useful work. But this means that they do not live like rich people at all, and might therefore just as well have ordinary incomes.

I simply go with what works. And what works is the healthy skepticism embodied in the scientific method. Believe me, if the Bible had ever been shown to be a rich source of scientific answers and enlightenment, we would be mining it daily for cosmic discovery.

Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can't buy more hours. Scientists can't invent new minutes. And you can't save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow.

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.

The inner life of the [imagination], and not the personal and tiny experiential resources of the actor, should be elaborated on the stage and shown to the audience. This life is rich and revealing for the audience as well as for the actor himself.

People are crying up the rich and variegated plumage of the peacock, and he is himself blushing at the sight of his ugly feet.

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.

Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar.

You must teach your children that the ground beneath their feet is the ashes of your grandfathers. So that they will respect the land, tell your children that the earth is rich with the lives of our kin. Teach your children what we have taught our children, that the earth is our mother. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of the earth. If men spit upon the ground, they spit upon themselves.

If you live according to nature, you never will be poor; if according to the world's caprice, you will never be rich.

I would rather have it said, 'He lived usefully,' than, 'He died rich.'

Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.

If work were so pleasant, the rich would keep it for themselves.