Quotes about rich-people

Robin Sacredfire -

Differences about poor and rich people: Poor people ask me where's my money from Rich people invite me for a coffee and never ask it.

Dennis Prager - Happiness Is a Serious Problem: A Human Nature Repair Manual

Unhappy poor people at least have the fantasy that money will make them happy unhappy rich people don’t even have that.

Douglas Coupland - The Gum Thief

People who advocate simplicity have money in the bank; the money came first, not the simplicity.

Anna Godbersen - Splendor

We have glimpsed in it the future of high society: wealth without class.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr. - Mr. Rosewater

What gets me most about these people, Daddy, isn't how ignorant they are, or how much they drink. It's the way they have of thinking that everything nice in the world is a gift to the poor people from them or their ancestors. The first afternoon I was here, Mrs. Buntline made me come out on the back porch and look at the sunset. So I did, and I said I liked it very much, but she kept waiting for me to say something else. I couldn't think of what I was supposed to say, so I said what seemed like

Louise Penny - A Rule Against Murder

The only thing money really buys?...Space. A bigger house, a bigger car, a larger hotel room. First-class plane tickets. But it doesn't even buy comfort. No one complains more than the rich and entitled. Comfort, security, ease. None of them come with money.

John Scalzi - Lock In

Rich people show their appreciation through favors. When everyone you know has more money than they know what to do with, money stops being a useful transactional tool. So instead you offer favors. Deals. Quid pro quos. Things that involve personal involvement rather than money. Because when you're that rich, your personal time is your limiting factor.

Richelle E. Goodrich - Making Wishes

The richest people are those who have an abundance of what we take with us into the next life.

Mircea Popister -

Most people like to be rich, but they don’t know that the rich people are the unhappy bunch. Always marrying at least 3 times, always having drinking or drug problems and always think they are smartest one around, when in fact they can’t name 2 capitals from Europe without a Google search.

Ruta Sepetys - Out of the Easy

Jo, they have a baby grand piano, but no one in the family plays. They have shelves of books they've never read, and the tension between the couples was so thick it nearly choked us.""Let me tell you something 'bout those rich Uptown folk," said Cokie. "They got everything that money can buy, their bank accounts are fat, but they ain't happy. They ain't ever gone be happy. You know why? They soul broke. And money can't fix that, no sir. My friend Bix was poor. Lord, he had to blow that trumpet t

Ruta Sepetys - Out of the Easy

What if this is a horrible mistake?" I croaked. "Oh, it'll be horrible fine, just a bunch of pretentious rich people with shelves of expensive books they've never read.

Robert Goolrick -

The rest is just slow diminution and loss. A waning of the full and effulgent moon of my youth. Not that the bright light of my youth was anything to be proud of. I was a terrible person. I did unkind and sometimes illegal things. I treated women abominably. The remembrance of it causes me to flush with shame and to feel a tightening in my groin.It was a radiance without warmth, and I thought of nothing but myself in the brightness of the light. Now I try never to think of myself. I try not to t

Eyden I. - Woman's Book: Only For Men

Morals are like social classes, there are poor and rich people.

Salsabeel -

Neither every rich person is noble nor miser.Neither every poor person is humble nor wicked.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana - N for Nigger: Aphorisms for Grown Children and Childish Grown-ups

Rich people read their bills. Poor people dread theirs.

Carla H. Krueger -

It's better to be remembered for what you said, not what you earned.

V.C. Andrews - Petals on the Wind

Maybe that was what millions could do-- nail a satisfied smirk to one's face.

Sivaprakash Sidhu -

Getting rich is not real and staying rich is real.

Andrew Ashling - The Invisible Hands - Part 2: Castling

There always seem to be very rich people, no matter how poor the country,” Thenoclon said.

Elizabeth Gaskell - Mary Barton

No, its the poor I tell you, and the poor only, as does such things for the poor. Don't think to come over me with th' old tale, that the rich knows nothing of the trials of the poor; I say, if they don't know, they ought to know. We're their slaves as long as we can work; we pile up their fortunes with the sweat of our brows, and yet we are to live as separate as if we were in two worlds..." Chap. 1, p. 12

Ebelsain Villegas -

Who says that money don't matter?If you are Rich all the world will know about you, if you are poor no one give a crap about what it's happening to you!"Life It's Short, enjoy this moment.

Sergio Troncoso - Crossing Borders: Personal Essays

Rich people don’t have to have a life-and-death relationship with the truth and its questions; they can ignore the truth and still thrive materially. I am not surprised many of them understand literature only as an ornament. Life is an ornament to them, relationships are ornaments, their 'work' is but a flimsy, pretty ornament meant to momentarily thrill and capture attention.

Coco Chanel -

There are people who have money and people who are rich.

Akilnathan Logeswaran -

To me bathtubs are the epitome of luxury. Either you have no money to own one or you have no time to use one.

James Anderson - The Never-Open Desert Diner

Rich people always had someone to call who could arrange something that the average guy couldn't get done, no matter how right or wrong. The only call the poor man could make was to Jesus. If Jesus didn't answer, Smith and Wesson always did.

Saminu Kanti -

I am here not to save money but to make more of it to empower the people and make the world a better place.

Idowu Koyenikan - Wealth for All: Living a Life of Success at the Edge of Your Ability

The money you make is a symbol of the value you create.

Nancy Astor the Viscountess Astor -

The only thing I like about rich people is their money.

Glen Cook - Water Sleeps

Rich men have dreams. Poor men die to make them come true.

Albert Camus - The First Man

Remembrance of things past is just for the rich. For the poor it only marks the faint traces on the path to death.

Lisa Bedrick - On Christian Hot Topics

Money almost always ends up disappointing. Buying things to give lasing satisfaction is an illusion. Money can't buy happiness. The people with the most money are often times the MOST miserable people.

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