Wealthy Quotes

Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise. (Benjamin Franklin)
You aren't wealthy until you have something money can't buy. View quote
Garth Brooks
Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing. View quote
Dave Barry
Early to rise and early to bed. Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead. View quote
James Thurber
The life of the wealthy is one long Sunday. View quote
Georg Büchner
If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived. View quote
Edmund Burke
The wealthy are always surrounded by hangers-on; science and art are as well. View quote
Anton Chekhov
As I have said before, the ever more sophisticated weapons piling up in the arsenals of the wealthiest and the mightiest can kill the illiterate, the ill, the poor and the hungry, but they cannot kill ignorance, illness, poverty or hunger. View quote
Fidel Castro
Four hundred obscenely wealthy individuals, 400 little Mubaraks -- most of whom benefited in some way from the multi-trillion-dollar taxpayer bailout of 2008 -- now have more cash, stock and property than the assets of 155 million Americans combined. View quote
Michael Moore
If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting. View quote
Benjamin Franklin
Art collecting has traditionally been the domain of wealthy individuals in search of rewards beyond the purely financial. (James Surowiecki)
Some of the greatest social reformers of our time were wealthy. View quote
Jerry Rubin
My father, who was from a wealthy family and highly educated, a lawyer, Yale and Columbia, walked out with the benefit of a healthy push from my mother, a seventh grade graduate, who took a typing course and got a secretarial job as fast as she could. View quote
George Weinberg
For students today, only 10 percent of children from working-class families graduate from college by the age of 24 as compared to 58 percent of upper-middle-class and wealthy families. View quote
Patrick J. Kennedy
Congress had the opportunity to extend tax relief to working families without increasing the deficit. Instead, we were handed a bill that favors the wealthy and eliminates deductions that benefit the middle class. View quote
Rick Larsen
Wealthy men can't live in an island that is encircled by poverty. We all breathe the same air. We must give a chance to everyone, at least a basic chance. View quote
Ayrton Senna
Among civilized peoples, especially the very wealthy population of the United States of America, women have become objects of luxury who consume but do not produce. View quote
Vilfredo Pareto
The life in Italy is the life of a wealthy country, consumptions haven't diminished, it's hard to find seats on planes, our restaurants are full of people. View quote
Silvio Berlusconi
The wealthy are generally impressed with an idea, that they shall never stand in need of public charitable relief; but a little less confidence would become them better. View quote
Jean-Baptiste Say
How unfair the fate which ordains that those who have the least should be always adding to the treasury of the wealthy. View quote
Terence
Democracy is premised, in some measure, on majority rule, and democracy is difficult in a situation of concentrated inequalities in which a large, impoverished majority confronts a small, wealthy oligarchy. (Samuel P. Huntington)
If I was wealthy I'd never do anything but poke around in ruined cities all over the world - and probably get snake-bit. View quote
Robert E. Howard
Among the idle rich, boredom is one of the most common causes of unhappiness. People who have difficulty in earning their living may suffer greatly, but they are not bored. Wealthy men and women become bored when they depend upon the theater for their enjoyment instead of making their own lives interesting. View quote
André Maurois
I wonder what your idea of heaven would be - A beautiful vacuum filled with wealthy monogamists. All powerful and members of the best families all drinking themselves to death. And hell would probably an ugly vacuum full of poor polygamists unable to obtain booze or with chronic stomach disorders that they called secret sorrows. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
The other boys at Yale came from wealthy families, and none of them were investing outside the United States, and I thought, 'That is very egotistical. Why be so shortsighted or near-sighted as to focus only on America? Shouldn't you be more open-minded? View quote
John Templeton