Wealthy Quotes - Page 19

• Being wealthy when no one else is, is like being the only one at the party with a drink.

  Tim Allen

  Party, Wealth, Drink

  “Tim Allen: What I've Learned” by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. October 11, 2011.

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• Independent experts have looked at what I've proposed and looked at what Donald's [Trump] proposed, and basically they've said this, that if his tax plan, which would blow up the debt by over $5 trillion and would in some instances disadvantage middle-class families compared to the wealthy, were to go into effect, we would lose 3.5 million jobs and maybe have another recession.

  Hillary Clinton

  Jobs, Independent, Blow

  Source: time.com

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• The solidarity which binds all men together as members of a common family makes it impossible for wealthy nations to look with indifference upon the hunger, misery and poverty of other nations whose citizens are unable to enjoy even elementary human rights. The nations of the world are becoming more and more dependent on one another and it will not be possible to preserve a lasting peace so long as glaring economic and social imbalances persist.

  Pope John XXIII

  Peace, Men, Ubuntu

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• We got no wealthy black people. We got rich people. Shaq is rich. The guy who signs his checks is wealthy.

  Chris Rock

  Money, People, Guy

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• If you have nothing to do, look at yourself and see if there isn't something close at hand that you can improve. It may make you wealthy, although it is more likely it will make you happy.

  George Matthew Adams

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• Readily people do not accept any ordinary to behave like an extraordinary unless and until some extraordinary but preferably wealthy approves him to be not ordinary.

  Anuj

  People, Ordinary, Accepting

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• It is doubtful if even experience of riches and success is as intense among those who have experienced nothing else as among those who have also experienced poverty and failure. There is little romance in wealth to those who have been born wealthy and whose families have been wealthy for generations.

  Robert Wilson Lynd

  Romance, Generations, Littles

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• The democracy which shows up in the United States and in England is not an ideal democracy, because the will of the people is under the pressure of property, which is in the hands of the wealthy capitalists.

  Hans Fritzsche

  Hands, People, Democracy

  "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately, 2004.

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• President Obama unveiled a $4 trillion budget for 2016 that would increase taxes on the wealthy and spend more money on education. He also made a snowball and put it in the oven, just to see which would last longer, his budget or the snowball.

  Jimmy Fallon

  President, Lasts, Increase

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• Portland in particular is a cheap enough place to live that you can still develop your passion - painting, writing, music. People seem less status-conscious. Even wealthy people buy second-hand clothes and look a little bit homeless.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Writing, Passion, Hands

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• Republicans want to punish work and reward wealth; hence the high payroll tax and the low dividend tax. Said one Bush economic adviser, if we can't help wealthy investors and screw working people, what's the point in being a Republican?

  Paul Begala

  Payroll Tax, People, Want

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• Democracy is just a word. You have to give it meaning. The US is not a democracy. Most Americans do not vote. We haven't had a real choice for a long, long time now. Wealth rules. Corporations rule. The US is a plutocracy - government by wealthy people. Certain people control multinational corporations. You couldn't get elected in the US without lots of money.

  Ramsey Clark

  Money, Real, Government

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• Do you realize that $150 billion of our tax money is given to the corporations, unions and wealthy people for tax breaks, special subsidies and special regulations? That money would be available for health and education and building bridges.

  Doris "Granny D" Haddock

  Money, Health, Bridges

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• It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy unenvied, to be healthful without physic, and secure without a guard; to obtain from the bounty of nature, what the great and wealthy are compelled to procure by the help of artists and attendants, of flatterers and spies.

  Samuel Johnson

  Art, Healthy, Poverty

  "The Rambler".

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• When none but the wealthy had watches, they were almost all very good ones; few are now made which are worth much, but everybody has one in his pocket.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Class, Pockets, Watches

  Alexis de Tocqueville (1847). “Democracy in America”

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• The wealthy man is the man whois much, not the one who has much

  Karl Marx

  Inspiration, Men, He Man

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• It is a wealthy person, indeed, who calculates riches not in gold but in friends.

  Jim Stovall

  Inspirational, Life, Uplifting

  Jim Stovall (2010). “Today's the Day!”, p.42, David C Cook

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• I'm a wealthy man now. I've got a flat, a car, I have enough money to buy food. I skate to make the people happy. If somebody skates to earn money, I don't care. I skate for the people. Besides, it's pleasant to supply Russia with gold medals.

  Evgeni Plushenko

  Bad Ass, Men, Russia

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• The early Rockefellers made their wealth from being in certain businesses and remained personally very wealthy. Tata's were different in the sense the future generations were not so wealthy. They were involved in the business but most of the family wealth was put into trust and most of the family did not in fact did not enjoy enormous wealth.

  Ratan Tata

  Business, Different, Generations

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• Rather than assume that the wealthy are a monolithic, selfish and unfeeling lot who must be subjugated by the force of the state, set a tone that encourages people of good will to meet in the middle.

  Leon G. Cooperman

  Selfish, People, Tone

  "Investor Leon Cooperman Sends Monster, Scathing Letter To Obama" by Lisa Du, www.businessinsider.com. November 29, 2011.

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• It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die.

  Juvenal

  Order, Want, Madness

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• The wealthy seldom possess wealth: oftener they are possessed by it.

  Ivan Panin

  Wealth, Possessed

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• European and American companies companies do create jobs for some people but what they're mainly going to do is make an already wealthy elite wealthier, and increase its greed and strong desire to hang on to power. So immediately and in the long run, these companies - harm the democratic process a great deal.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Running, Strong, Jobs

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• But that would put me on a path that would make me totally divergent from who I am. I don't have to go through the heartache many other people go through, of figuring out what makes them "wealthy." I know what brings me joy.

  Ben Sollee

  Heart, Who I Am, People

  "Ben Sollee Interview | Activism by cello? On a bike?". Interview with Amanda Taylor, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I'd read an enormous amount but had spent so much time in my own head that I didn't have extensive social skills. Suddenly I was in this world where I was surrounded by these incredibly polished and wealthy kids who had gone to prep schools, and I felt daunted by them. I don't think people were aware of how full of anxiety I was... For a long time I felt like I was living in a place where I shouldn't have been.

  Dan Chaon

  School, Kids, Thinking

  Interview with Molly Antopol, therumpus.net. September 15th, 2009.

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