Wealthy Quotes - Page 20

• I’ve always liked to read about extremely wealthy people, especially when they are crazy (like Howard Hughes or Caligula.) While writing this book I did a lot of fun research on robber barons like Rockefeller and Morgan. But the most helpful stuff came from studying royal families and mad emperors. The best book I read was probably A King’s Own Story, which is the memoir of Edward VIII. Also, anything about Ivan the Terrible or Ted Turner.

  Simon Rich

  Kings, Fun, Crazy

  "Ridiculously Rich: The Rumpus Interview With Simon Rich". Interview with Maureen Miller, therumpus.net. June 9, 2010.

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• Public sentiment is not observed. The wealthy and powerful gain a ready hearing, but the plodding, suffering, unorganized complaining multitude are spurned and derided.

  James B. Weaver

  Powerful, Political, Suffering

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• The night club had a curious and diverse appeal. To some it was a sex-exciter. To others, frequenting a night club and throwing away money was a form of exhibitionism...wealthy men from out of town visited the clubs for appalling orgies of spending and drinking, and most of them seemed to think it was worth the cost.

  Stanley Walker

  Sex, Drinking, Night

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• The government of our great country belongs to all of the people and not just a handful of the wealthy.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, Government, People

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• Unless there is free and fair competition, there can't be healthy economic development. And what we have in Burma now is not an open-market economy that allows free and fair competition, but a form of colonialism makes a few people very, very wealthy. It's what you would crony capitalism.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  People, Healthy, Competition

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• I can say with absolute confidence that the general public of Burma would be very little affected, if at all, by sanctions. So far, the kind of investments that have come in have benefited the public very little indeed. If you have been in Burma long enough, you will be aware of the fact that a small elite has developed that is extremely wealthy. Perhaps they would be affected, but my concern is not with them but with the general public.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Long, Littles, Facts

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• If it was true that lower taxes for the rich and more wealth to the wealthy leat to job creation, today we would be drowning in jobs.

  Nick Hanauer

  Jobs, Would Be, Today

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• The property boom has made us all feel wealthy, but unfortunately it has lulled many of those nearing retirement into a false sense of security.

  Noel Whittaker

  Retirement, Home, House

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• The state of inequality between individuals and between nations not only still exists; it is increasing. It still happens that side by side with those who are wealthy and living in plenty there exist those who are living in want, suffering misery and often actually dying of hunger; and their number reaches tens, even hundreds of millions.

  Pope John Paul II

  Economic Inequality, Numbers, Suffering

  Pope John Paul II (1996). “The Encyclicals of John Paul II”, Our Sunday Visitor (IN)

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• I came here with nothing, with maybe a hundred bucks in my pocket and had to get a job. And these wealthy people who had made their money themselves, I worked for. It did show me what could be achieved in America, what's possible if you have some vision to take big risks.

  Mark Burnett

  Jobs, America, People

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• That is a society editor, sitting there elegantly dressed, with his legs crossed in that indolent way, observing the clothes the ladies wear, so that he can describe them for his paper and make them out finer than they are and get bribes for it and become wealthy.

  Mark Twain

  Editors, Clothes, Sitting

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.3989, Delphi Classics

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• It is evident that in the period designated as that of the kings, when Rome commenced her career of conquest, she was, for that time and country, a great and wealthy city.

  Goldwin Smith

  Country, Kings, Rome

  Goldwin Smith (1881). “Lectures and Essays”, New York : Macmillan

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• [W]hat suffers in the atmosphere of immediacy is analysis. What suffers in this search for speed is depth. The media in the wealthy world are becoming increasingly simplistic, superficial, and celebrity-focused.

  Laurie Garrett

  Media, Atmosphere, Suffering

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• Take the job you would take if you were independently wealthy. You're going to do well at it.

  Warren Buffett

  Jobs, Play, Wells

  "Warren Buffett's career advice". money.cnn.com.

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• Why is the public so interested in movies about the wealthy? My answer is that Shakespeare wrote about kings. That's where the action is. And it's the classic, cathartic thing. You get to indulge in a lifestyle you're not part of, a tragic error leads to a downfall, and you get to say, 'Thank God I'm not him.'

  Nicholas Jarecki

  Kings, Indulge In, Errors

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Some would argue that the president himself benefited from a form of affirmative action because as a C student, he only got into Yale because his father was a wealthy alumnus. But the White House counters that Saddam is a menace and must be stopped.

  Jon Stewart

  Father, Yale, White

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• The problem is that people basically dangle debt in front of us. And the cost for the poor of course is much higher than for the wealthy.

  Dan Ariely

  People, Cost, Debt

  "Mental depletion complicates financial decisions for the poor". Interview with Kristen Doerer, www.pbs.org. January 19, 2016.

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• But it didn't stop him from loving her just a little. From loving all women-all shapes, all sizes, all walks of life. Their soft skin and softer curves, the way they gasped and giggled and sighed, the way the wealthy ones played their coy games, and the less fortunate ones looked at him, stars in their eyes, eager for his attention. Women were, without a doubt, the Lord's finest creation. And, at twenty-three, he had plans for a lifetime of worshipping them.

  Sarah MacLean

  Stars, Eye, Loving Life

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• You always hear that tragedies put sports in perspective, that they prove we shouldn't care this much about the successes and failures of a bunch of wealthy strangers. I'm going the other way - sometimes, sports put everything else in perspective.

  Bill Simmons

  Sports, Perspective, Tragedy

  "The 13 Best Sports Documentaries" by Brandon Latham, www.indiewire.com. August 13, 2014.

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• The difference between the very wealthy and the working poor has grown. We raise that minimum wage and we move forward with the vision of this president that we have, which is everyone pays their fair share.

  Barbara Boxer

  Moving, Differences, Political

  "Boxer pushes $10 minimum wage" by Breanna Edwards, www.politico.com. August 26, 2013.

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• Anybody can be going from being broke to being wealthy, as I did.

  Jon Lovitz

  Broke, Being Broke

  "Piers Morgan Tonight", www.cnn.com. May 8, 2012.

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• The odds of being successful are the same for every group that is educated in America. It's just that the group that is not wealthy is 95 percent of the population. So if there are 100 successful people in a room, probably 95 out of 100 came from more modest means.

  Michael Eisner

  Mean, Successful, Odds

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• Some of the greatest social reformers of our time were wealthy.

  Jerry Rubin

  Social, Our Time, Reformers

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• I think that's most unfortunate about our Democratic system, that you're confining it to people who are either very wealthy in their own right or have capacity to gain access to large amounts of money.

  Birch Bayh

  Thinking, People, Gains

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• Let me ask you: Should only children of the wealthy have access to quality early education? Should only children of the wealthy have access to a college degree? The answer - the only answer - is: no.

  Lincoln Chafee

  Children, College, Quality

  "Lincoln Chafee DNC speech". www.politico.com. September 5, 2012.

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