Rich Man Quotes - Page 4

• A man's wealth can...also be measured by what he doesn't have and doesn't want. When he wants little, he is a rich man.

  Bill Bonner

  Men, Want, Littles

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• The capitalist engine is first and last an engine of mass production which unavoidably also means production for the masses. . . . It is the cheap cloth, the cheap cotton and rayon fabric, boots, motorcars and so on that are the typical achievements of capitalist production, and not as a rule improvements that would mean much to the rich man. Queen Elizabeth owned silk stockings. The capitalist achievement does not typically consist in providing more silk stockings for queens but in bringing them within reach of factory girls.

  Joseph A. Schumpeter

  Girl, Queens, Mean

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• I really detest movies like 'Indecent Proposal' and 'Pretty Woman' because they send a message to women that sleeping with a rich man is the ultimate goal and really that's such a small part of it.

  Laura Kightlinger

  Sleep, Men, Goal

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• The poor man must walk to get meat for his stomach,
  the rich man to get a stomach to his meat.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Men, Meat, Rich

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.27, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• I'm not a rich man, and Greg Lake is certainly not. I don't know how he can survive. I don't know how he can be that suicidal. But having said that, I'd love to be there to help Greg.

  Keith Emerson

  Suicide, Suicidal, Men

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• Rich men's sons are seldom rich men's fathers.

  Herbert Kaufman

  Boyfriend, Father, Son

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• With eye upraised his master's look to scan, The joy, the solace, and the aid of man: The rich man's guardian and the poor man's friend, The only creature faithful to the end.

  George Crabbe

  Friendship, Dog, Eye

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• If economists were good at business, they would be rich men instead of advisers to rich men.

  Kirk Kerkorian

  Men, Would Be, Rich

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• It is easier for a cannibal to enter the Kingdom of Heaven through the eye of a rich man's needle that it is for any other foreigner to read the terrible German script.

  Mark Twain

  Eye, Men, Heaven

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.149, Courier Corporation

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• I know that a man who shows me his wealth is like the beggar who shows me his poverty; they are both looking for alms from me, the rich man for the alms of my envy, the poor man for the alms of my guilt.

  Ben Hecht

  Men, Envy, Guilt

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• Justice in the hands of the powerful is merely a governing system like any other. Why call it justice? Let us rather call it injustice, but of a sly effective order, based entirely on cruel knowledge of the resistance of the weak, their capacity for pain, humilation and misery. Injustice sustained at the exact degree of necessary tension to turn the cogs of the huge machine-for-the-making-of-rich-men, without bursting the boiler.

  Georges Bernanos

  Pain, Powerful, Men

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• I didn't want to move or act like a rich man. I wanted to dance in a pair of jeans. I wanted to dance like the man in the streets.

  Gene Kelly

  Moving, Men, Jeans

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• When I pretended to be precocious, people started the rumor that I was precocious. When I acted like an idler, rumor had it I was an idler. When I pretended I couldn't write a novel, people said I couldn't write. When I acted like a liar, they called me a liar. When I acted like a rich man, they started the rumor I was rich. When I feigned indifference, they classed me as the indifferent type. But when I inadvertently groaned because I was really in pain, they started the rumor that I was faking suffering. The world is out of joint.

  Osamu Dazai

  Pain, Liars, Writing

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• Anybody who can drive and doesn't come out of it a rich man is a fool.

  Mario Andretti

  Men, Fool, Rich

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• What lawsuits grow out of the graves of rich men, every day; sowing perjury, hatred, and lies among near kindred, where there should be nothing but love!

  Charles Dickens

  Love, Lying, Men

  Charles Dickens (1867). “The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit”, p.27

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• A rich man can afford to be generous to many.

  Mercedes McCambridge

  Men, Rich, Generous

  Mercedes McCambridge (1982). “The Quality of Mercy”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• I trust no rich man who is officiously kind to a poor man.

  Plautus

  Men, Kind, Wealth

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 864-67, Aulularia, II. 2. 30, 1922.

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• A man once asked Diogenes what was the proper time for supper, and he made answer, "If you are a rich man, whenever you please; and if you are a poor man, whenever you can.

  Diogenes Laertius

  Men, Answers, Rich

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• The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise. Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poor-house. The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the alms-house as brightly as from the rich man's abode; the snow melts before its door as early in the spring. I do not see but a quiet mind may live as contentedly there, and have as cheering thoughts, as in a palace.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Cheer, Spring, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “Walden”, p.232, Xist Publishing

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• The educated man pictures a horde of submen, wanting only a day's liberty to loot his house, burn his books, and set him to work minding a machine or sweeping out a lavatory. 'Anything,' he thinks, 'any injustice, sooner than let that mob loose.' He does not see that since there is no difference between the mass of rich and poor, there is no question of setting the mob loose. The mob is in fact loose now, and--in the shape of rich men--is using its power to set up enormous treadmills of boredom, such as 'smart' hotels.

  George Orwell

  Smart, Book, Men

  George Orwell (2012). “Down and Out in Paris and London”, p.86, Lulu.com

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• Rich man and poor move side by side toward the limit of death.

  Pindar

  Death, Moving, Men

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• Who would be a poor man, a beggar man, a thief, if he held a rich man in his hand?

  Jethro Tull

  Men, Hands, Thieves

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• War so conspicuously benefits rich men and kills the poor ones.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  War, Men, Benefits

  Barbara Kingsolver (2009). “The Lacuna”, p.294, Faber & Faber

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• When I found out my mother wanted me to marry a rich man, I instantly didn't want any rich man.

  Marianne Faithfull

  Mother, Men, Want

  "Marianne Faithfull: rocking 60s style" by Hadley Freeman, www.theguardian.com. February 16, 2013.

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• Sometimes I think that all mankind exist but to be bought and sold: The rich man's paramour is gold, the poor man's goddess, gold, gold, gold.

  Ridgely Torrence

  Money, Men, Thinking

  Ridgely Torrence (1900). “The House of a Hundred Lights”

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