Wealthy Quotes - Page 29

• Everywhere you will find that the wealth of the wealthy springs from the poverty of the poor.

  Peter Kropotkin

  Spring, Poverty, Wealth

  Peter Kropotkin (2016). “The Conquest of Bread”, p.84, Peter Kropotkin

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• I truly believe anyone can be wealthy.

  Dan Thompson

  Believe

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• We can be poor in spirit, and I don’t even consider myself wealthy, which is an interesting thing. It can be here today and gone tomorrow.

  Ann Romney

  Interesting, Gone, Today

  "Ann Romney Had Health Scare In March". www.huffingtonpost.com. April 26, 2012.

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• Capitalism is against the things that we say we believe in - democracy, freedom of choice, fairness. It's not about any of those things now. It's about protecting the wealthy and legalizing greed.

  Michael Moore

  Believe, Choices, Greed

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• Act as if! Act as if you're a wealthy man, rich already, and then you'll surely become rich. Act as if you have unmatched confidence and then people will surely have confidence in you. Act as if you have unmatched experience and then people will follow your advice. And act as if you are already a tremendous success, and as sure as I stand here today - you will become successful.

  Jordan Belfort

  Success, Men, People

  Jordan Belfort (2007). “The Wolf of Wall Street”, p.98, Bantam

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• Flint must be an extremely wealthy town: I see that each of you bought two or three seats.

  Victor Borge

  Two, Musical, Three

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• If I was wealthy I'd never do anything but poke around in ruined cities all over the world - and probably get snake-bit.

  Robert E. Howard

  Snakes, Cities, World

  Letter to H. P. Lovecraft, 1931.

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• Do not tell me that you have got to be rich! We have a false standard of greatness in the United States. We think here that a man must be great, that he must be notorious; that he must be extremely wealthy, or that his name must be upon the putrid lips of rumor. It is all a mistake. It is not necessary to be rich or to be great, or to be powerful, to be happy. The happy man is the successful man. Happiness is the legal tender of the soul.Joy is wealth.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Powerful, Mistake, Successful

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.207, Library of Alexandria

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• No party has a monopoly on wisdom. No democracy works without compromise. But when Governor Romney and his allies in Congress tell us we can somehow lower our deficit by spending trillions more on new tax breaks for the wealthy - well, you do the math. I refuse to go along with that. And as long as I'm President, I never will.

  Barack Obama

  Party, Math, Long

  "Transcript: President Obama's DNC Speech". abcnews.go.com. September 6, 2012.

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• What rights have women? ... [they are] punished for breaking laws which they have no voice in making. All avenues to enterprise and honors are closed against them. If poor, they must drudge for a mere pittance if of the wealthy classes, they must be dressed dolls of fashion parlor puppets.

  Ernestine Rose

  Fashion, Rights, Law

  "The American Life of Ernestine L. Rose, Syracuse". Book by Carol A. Kolmerten (p.49), 1999.

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• ...in respect of riches, no citizen shall ever be wealthy enough to buy another, and none poor enough to be forced to sell himself.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Citizens, Riches, Enough

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau, G. D. H. Cole (2003). “On the Social Contract”, p.34, Courier Corporation

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• Where some people are very wealthy and others have nothing, the result will be either extreme democracy or absolute oligarchy, or despotism will come from either of those excesses.

  Aristotle

  People, Democracy, Excess

  'Politics' bk. 1, sect. 4, 1296a

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• I think that wealthy white people would like to have a country that resembles the Fifties, when all the minorities were tucked away in ghettos and paid in very low wages but on the surface it was very bright and shiny and free and the rest of the world would look on it longingly.

  Alice Walker

  Country, Ghetto, Thinking

  "A long walk to freedom" by Duncan Campbell, www.theguardian.com. February 24, 2001.

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• Since biblical times, and probably before, the wealthy have been envied and condemned.

  Conrad Black

  Biblical, Envied, Has Beens

  "'At Some Level, He's Still Asking the Same Question as He Was When He Was Seven or Eight - Who Am I?'". www.theguardian.com. March 16, 2007.

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• Wealthy women have rights in every country. And poor women don't.

  Hillary Clinton

  Country, Rights, Wealth

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• Money is not a motivating factor. Money doesn't thrill me or make me play better because there are benefits to being wealthy. I'm just happy with a ball at my feet. My motivation comes from playing the game I love. If I wasn't paid to be a professional footballer I would willingly play for nothing.

  Lionel Messi

  Football, Motivation, Games

  "I've sacrificed everything to be the best in the world" by Paul Smith, www.thesun.co.uk. March 18, 2012.

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• A thought crossed his mind: How do you make poor people feel wealthy when wages are stagnant? You give them cheap loans.

  Michael Lewis

  People, Giving, Mind

  Michael Lewis (2015). “The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (movie tie-in)”, p.31, W. W. Norton & Company

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• For decades the G.O.P. has won elections by appealing to social and racial divisions, only to turn after each victory to deregulation and tax cuts for the wealthy — a process that reached its epitome when George W. Bush won re-election by posing as America's defender against gay married terrorists, then announced that he had a mandate to privatize Social Security.

  Paul Krugman

  Cutting, Gay, America

  "Severe Conservative Syndrome". www.nytimes.com. February 12, 2012.

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• Africa is wealthy in natural resources; the problem is they are not optimally utilized.

  Yoweri Museveni

  Problem, Natural, Resources

  "President Museveni Highlights Ugandan Achievements for Americans" by Jim Fisher-Thompson, news.findlaw.com. September 23, 2005.

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• 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.

  Jean-Baptiste Say

  Ideas, Relief, Needs

  Jean Baptiste Say, Charles Robert Prinsep (1857). “A Treatise on Political Economy; Or, The Production, Distribution, and Consumption of Wealth”, p.439

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• I don't approve of what Wall Street and the wealthy have done to this country, but they are the very ones buying my paintings.

  Scott Kahn

  Country, Wall, Done

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• A beautiful vacuum filled with wealthy monogamists, all powerful and members of the best families all drinking themselves to death.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Funny, Beautiful, Death

  Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Baker (2003). “Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961”, p.165, Simon and Schuster

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• Racism, in the first place, is a weapon used by the wealthy to increase the profits they bring in by paying Black workers less for their work.

  Angela Davis

  Racism, Black, Firsts

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• Who is all-powerful in the world? Who is most dreadful in the world? The machine. Who is most fair, most wealthy, and all-wise? The machine. What is the earth? A machine. What is the sky? A machine. What is man? A machine. A machine.

  Leonid Andreyev

  Wise, Powerful, Men

  Leonid Andreyev (1911). “King-Hunger: Translated from the Russian by Eugene M. Kayden”

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• A wealthy doctor who can help a poor man, and will not without a fee, has less sense of humanity than a poor ruffian, who kills a rich man to supply his necessities.

  Joseph Addison

  Men, Doctors, Humanity

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele, Alexander Chalmers (1822). “The Tatler”, p.40

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