200 Rich Quotes

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[For “200 Poor Quotes,” click here.]

We’ve looked at 200 Poor Quotes. Now, for just as many Rich Quotes!

Dare to be open-minded enough not to reject any of them out of hand. Consider each of them and whether there is anything you can take away from them—even if you ultimately disagree with a particular quote. : )

200 QUOTES ABOUT RICHES

1. The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own.
- Theodor Adorno

2. It isn’t necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It’s only necessary to be rich.
- Alan Alda

3. To be able to give away riches is mandatory if you wish to possess them. This is the only way that you will be truly rich.
- Muhammad Ali

4. Many an optimist has become rich by buying out a pessimist.
- Robert G. Allen

5. Washington and Jefferson were both rich Virginia planters, but they were never friends.
- Stephen Ambrose

6. If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals.
- Susan B. Anthony

7. You don’t have to be rich and famous. You just have to be an ordinary person, doing extraordinary things.
- Joan Armatrading

8. We were not as rich as the Rockefellers or Mellons, but we were rich enough to know how rich they were.
- Louis Auchincloss

9. A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can’t think of anything else to do.
- W. H. Auden

10. To get rich never risk your health. For it is the truth that health is the wealth of wealth.
- Richard Baker

11. Those who spend too fast never grow rich.
- Honore de Balzac

12. A rich man told me recently that a liberal is a man who tells other people what to do with their money.
- Amiri Baraka

13. I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful, much adulated, very famous and very unhappy.
- Brigitte Bardot

14. Percentages are why I am rich.
- Brigitte Bardot

15. My family got all over me because they said Bush is only for the rich people. Then I reminded them, “Hey, I’m rich.”
- Charles Barkley

16. These are my new shoes. They’re good shoes. They won’t make you rich like me, they won’t make you rebound like me, they definitely won’t make you handsome like me. They’ll only make you have shoes like me. That’s it.
- Charles Barkley

17. I’d like to be rich. I’d like a lot of money to put into my physicals and to buy food for all my friends.
- Syd Barrett

18. They will come to learn in the end, at their own expense, that it is better to endure competition for rich customers than to be invested with monopoly over impoverished customers.
- Frederic Bastiat

19. The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.
- Charles Baudelaire

20. Dublin University contains the cream of Ireland: Rich and thick.
- Samuel Beckett

21. In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
- Henry Ward Beecher

22. Be very clear as to what your dream is. Nowadays it is fairly certain that 90 percent of all actors really just want to be rich and famous as the solution to all that ails.
- Dirk Benedict

23. It is a good motive, fame and money, as it is tangible and measurable. Being an artist is neither measurable nor tangible and certainly not a way to become rich.
- Dirk Benedict

24. You might be poor, and unhappy; but become suddenly rich, and you will still be unhappy.
- Rick Beneteau

25. Traditional investment vehicles such as IRAs, CDs, stocks and bonds do have their place, but for the rich, they are used more as temporary storage facilities rather than life-long homes.
- Bo Bennett

26. Life begets life. Energy creates energy. It is in spending oneself that one becomes rich.
- Sarah Bernhardt

27. Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity.
- William Blake

28. Think about it: Every educated person is not rich, but almost every education person has a job and a way out of poverty. So education is a fundamental solution to poverty.
- Kathleen Blanco

29. If you want to know how rich you really are, find out what would be left of you tomorrow if you should lose every dollar you own tonight.
- William J. H. Boetcker

30. If we’d have said we were not upset, they would have thought we were so rich it meant nothing to us, and if we say we’re upset about it, they’ll say money is all we care about.
- John Bonham

31. Being rich is having money; being wealthy is having time.
- Margaret Bonnano

32. We are certainly influenced by role models, and if we are surrounded by images of beautiful rich people, we will start to think that to be beautiful and rich is very important —just as in the Middle Ages, people were surrounded by images of religious piety.
- Alain de Bottom

33. To me, money is a means to do good. I reached a point in my life where I had enjoyed tremendous business success that afforded my family everything we could possibly want. My wife and I then decided that we could use our wealth to make a difference. So we created the Broad Foundations to do four things: to improve urban public education, to support innovative scientific and medical research, to foster art appreciation for audiences worldwide and to support civic initiatives in Los Angeles.
- Eli Broad

34. A rich man’s joke is always funny.
- Thomas Edward Brown

35. Have you ever seen a candidate talking to a rich person on television?
- Art Buchwald

36. I always knew I was going to be rich. I don’t think I ever doubted it for a minute.
- Warren Buffett

37. I teach something called The Law of Probabilities, which says the more things you try, the more likely one of them will work. The more books you read, the more likely one of them will have an answer to a question that could solve the major problems of your life … make you wealthier, solve a health problem, whatever it might be.
- Jack Canfield

38. Hollywood people are filled with guilt: white guilt, liberal guilt, money guilt. They feel bad that they’re so rich, they feel they don’t work that much for all that money—and they don’t, for the amount of money they make.
- Drew Carey

39. There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.
- Andrew Carnegie

40. He who could foresee affairs three days in advance would be rich for thousands of years.
- Thomas Carlyle

41. Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing … you are talking about the Internet, you are talking about cell phones, you are talking about computers. This doesn’t affect two-thirds of the people of the world.
- Jimmy Carter

42. Rich means you have to stay there to maintain it.
- Nell Carter

43. As for our garments, my mother did not only delight to see us neat and cleanly, fine and gay, but rich and costly—maintaining us to the height of her estate, but not beyond it.
- Margaret Cavendish

44. There are people who have money and people who are rich.
- Coco Chanel

45. Women desire six things: They want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous, obedient to wife, and lively in bed.
- Geoffrey Chaucer

46. Nothing is more important than reconnecting with your bliss. Nothing is as rich. Nothing is more real.
- Deepak Chopra

47. If you aren’t rich you should always look useful.
- Louis-Ferdinand Celine

48. The fool is like those people who think themselves rich with little.
- Luc de Clapier

49. Money is plentiful for those who understand the simple laws which govern its acquisition.
- George Clason

50. Wealth is power. With wealth many things are possible.
- George Clason

51. The amount of money you have has got nothing to do with what you earn … people earning a million dollars a year can have no money and … [p]eople earning $35,000 a year can be quite well off. It’s not what you earn, it’s what you spend.
- Paul Clitheroe

52. There are plenty of ways to get ahead. The first is so basic I’m almost embarrassed to say it: spend less than you earn.
- Paul Clitheroe

53. The problem with beauty is that it’s like being born rich and getting poorer.
- Joan Collins

54. Loneliness is the universal problem of rich people.
- Joan Collins

55. If you want to achieve your dreams, you must follow them, and the best way to follow them is not to think about wanting to be very rich, but to think about doing something that you really want to do.
- Jackie Collins

56. Riches don’t make a man rich, they only make him busier.
- Christopher Columbus

57. I never completed high school and I am very rich and very successful.
- Tre Cool

58. So then you have to say to yourself: Do I want to be rich, or do I want to do good work?
- Jackie Cooper

59. My life honestly isn’t as weird as people think it is. I work longer hours, maybe I have a bit more money; but, fundamentally, I’m not really that different.
- Simon Cowell

60. A conservative is a fellow who thinks a rich man should have a square deal.
- Frank Dane

61. He that is rich is wise.
- Daniel Defoe

62. People who grow rich almost always improve their sex life. More people want to have sex with them. That’s just the way human beings work. Money is power. Power is an aphrodisiac. Money did not make me happy. But it definitely improved my sex life.
- Felix Dennis

63. Whatever qualities the rich may have, they can be acquired by anyone with the tenacity to become rich. The key, I think, is confidence. Confidence and an unshakable belief it can be done and that you are the one to do it.
- Felix Dennis

64. The bottom line is that if I did it, you can do it. I got rich without the benefit of a college education or a penny of capital but making many errors along the way. I went from being a pauper … a hippie dropout on the dole, living in a crummy room without the proverbial pot to piss in, without even the money to pay the rent, without a clue as to what to do next … to being rich ….
- Felix Dennis

65. Rich people always have a certain degree of debt. Apparently it helps to reduce taxes. I’m not so hot on the bean-counting side.
- Felix Dennis

66. There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich.
- Marlene Dietrich

67. I’d rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.
- Ani DiFranco

68. A ball player’s got to be kept hungry to become a big leaguer. That’s why no boy from a rich family ever made the big leagues.
- Joe DiMaggio

69. Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before, how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever.
- Isak Dinesen

70. But the fact is, most people are not going to be rich someday.
- Roger Ebert

71. It is easy to feel rich any time. Just count all the things you have that money can’t buy.
- Kevin Eikenberry

72. I’m a parent, especially when you’ve had the intense parenting the way I had. It’s all in the bank. It’s all in the great experience bank. Those are your secrets. That’s the stuff that makes your work rich, that’s what you dip into.
- Hector Elizondo

73. I am the most well-adjusted human being I know. I started out this investigation as a very happy man with a great career. I’ve got the life people dream about: I am rich, I am famous, I’ve got a fabulous marriage to an absolutely, spell-bindingly brilliant woman.
- James Ellroy

74. Guido clung to this thought like a drowning man clutching at a straw. He was rich and famous now, he told himself, and wasn’t that what he’d always dreamed of?
- Michael Ende

75. Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.
- Epictetus

76. It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble.
- Epicurus

77. Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.
- Euripides

78. When a man’s stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor.
- Euripides

79. Qaddafi is hated because he is the leader of a small country that is rich, but he uses his money to finance liberation struggles.
- Louis Farrakhan

80. A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool.
- Henry Fielding

81. The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
- B. C. Forbes

82. The real source of wealth and capital in this new era is not material things ,.. it is the human mind, the human spirit, the human imagination, and our faith in the future.
- Steve Forbes

83. My goal was just to work regularly. I didn’t ever expect to be rich or famous. I wanted to be a working character actor.
- Harrison Ford

84. Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.
- Benjamin Franklin

85. It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.
- Benjamin Franklin

86. Lives in previous centuries for women are largely a matter of class. It would have been fun to have been a rich, privileged woman in the 18th century, but no fun at all to be her maid.
- Antonia Fraser

87. Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.
- Erich Fromm

88. Let architects sing of aesthetics that bring
Rich clients in hordes to their knees;
Just give me a home, in a great circle dome
Where stresses and strains are at ease.
- R. Buckminster Fuller

89. We can safely abandon the doctrine of the eighties, namely that the rich were not working because they had too little money, the poor because they had much.
- John Kenneth Galbraith

90. Of all classes the rich are the most noticed and the least studied.
- John Kenneth Galbraith

91. Like almost everyone who uses e-mail, I receive a ton of spam every day. Much of it offers to help me get out of debt or get rich quick. It would be funny if it weren’t so exciting.
- Bill Gates

92. I no longer want to be rich because I am rich.
- Uri Geller

93. No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or “get rich” in business by being a conformist.
- J. Paul Getty

94. If you can actually count your money, then you’re not a rich man.
- J. Paul Getty

95. The rich are not born sceptical or cynical. They are made that way by events, circumstances.
- J. Paul Getty

96. I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expenses, and my expense is equal to my wishes.
- Edward Gibbon

97. Everyone keeps asking me, “What are you doing?” I say, “Why do I need to do anything? I’m rich.”
- Steve Guttenberg

98. No one is rich whose expenditures exceed his means, and no one is poor whose incomings exceed his outgoings.
- Thomas Chandler Haliburton

99. Think and grow rich.
- Napoleon Hill

100. I came from a dirt farm, now I’m filthy rich.
- Larry Holmes

101. It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes.
- Andrew Jackson

102. The poor are the only consistent altruists; they sell all they have and give it to the rich.
- Holbrook Jackson

103. It’s not your salary that makes you rich, it’s your spending habits.
- Charles A. Jaffe

104. It was a wealthy family, and they heard me talk about movies, and they told me I should go into movies. That’s the benefit of hanging out with rich people; they have no sense of what is or isn’t possible.
- Michael Patrick Jann

105. Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.
- Samuel Johnson

106. There is a serious defect in the thinking of someone who wants—more than anything else —to become rich. As long as they don’t have the money, it’ll seem like a worthwhile goal. Once they do, they’ll understand how important other things are—and have always been.
- Benjamin Jowett

107. Rich men’s sons are seldom rich men’s fathers.
- Herbert Kaufman

108. Fortunes are made, and disappear, over the lifetime of a single generation. Today, a person in essence takes his wealth from society just for the duration of his or her lifetime. The next generation has to create it anew.
- Mikhail Khodorkovsky

109. I have a problem with too much money. I can’t reinvest it fast enough; and, because I reinvest it, more money comes in. Yes, the rich do get richer.
- Robert Kiyosaki

110. If you want to change who you are, begin by changing the size of your dream. Even if you are broke, it does not cost you anything to dream of being rich. Many poor people are poor because they have given up on dreaming.
- Robert Kiyosaki

111. It is usually people in the money business, finance, and international trade that are really rich.
- Robin Leach

112. Celebrities are nowhere as rich as some people think they are.
- Robin Leach

113. The rich are different from you and me because they have more credit.
- John Leonard

114. In our rich consumers’ civilization we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions.
- Max Lerner

115. It doesn’t matter whether you are rich or poor—as long as you’ve got money.
- Joe E. Lewis

116. Everyone is encouraged to see their lives, the world through the eyes of the rich.
- Richard Linklater

117. I was obsessed with being rich and famous.
- Paul Lynde

118. A rich man can afford to be generous to many.
- Mercedes McCambridge

119. I haven’t turned into some rich monster. I’ve kept my perspective. But I am a bit spoiled. It’s hard not to be a little spoiled by having a lot of money.
- Christine McVie

120. What you really are afraid of is that you’re competing against somebody who is rich and irrational. I mean, it used to be a given, a saying in the industry: Don’t ever bid against Rupert Murdoch for anything Rupert wants, because if you win you lose. You will have paid way too much.
- John Malone

121. All the gold in the world cannot buy a dying man one more breath. So, what does that make today worth?!
- Og Mandino

122. Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music—the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.
- Henry Miller

123. The motivation for war is simple. The U.S. government started the war with Iraq in order to make it easy for U.S. corporations to do business in other countries. They intend to use cheap labor in those countries, which will make Americans rich.
- Michael Moore

124. I’m a millionaire. I’m a multi-millionaire. I’m filthy rich. You know why I’m a multi-millionaire? ‘Cause multi-millions like what I do.
- Michael Moore

125. Everybody gets everything handed to them. The rich inherit it. I don’t mean just inheritance of money. I mean what people take for granted among the middle and upper classes, which is nepotism, the old-boy network.
- Toni Morrison

126. When you’re rich you don’t write checks.
- Randy Moss

127. I need to make an okay living. The people who work for us need to. But after you make a comfortable living, how much more do you need? It’s like I make a joke about nerd values, because I’m very much in the rich nerd tradition. And you know, we say, like, hey, people pay us for this stuff, like programming. You know, what else do we need?
- Craig Newmark

128. When you’re rich and famous you are the dominant force in a relationship, even if you try hard not to be.
- Stevie Nicks

129. There are only two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the artist and the monk who renounces possessions.
- Anais Nin

130. It is harder for a poor man to be successful than it is for a rich man.
- Gregory Nun

131. My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success. They imagined me going to the best schools in the land, even though they weren’t rich, because in a generous America you don’t have to be rich to achieve your potential.
- Barack Obama

132, For all of its faults (capitalism), it gives most hardworking people a chance to improve themselves economically, even as the deck is stacked in favor of the privileged few. Here are the choices most of us face in such a system: Get bitter or get busy.
- Bill O’Reilly

133. I don’t think it’s a good attitude in your life to feel that you have to be rich to have self-esteem.
- Tom Petty

134. The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.
- Titus Maccius Plautus

135. The more you achieve, the more interest it should spark to go further, because there’s so much—and I don’t mean monetarily and I don’t mean in society. This whole experience of living is so rich!
- Susan Powter

136. I would rather do many small roles on TV, stage or film than one blockbuster that made me rich but had no acting.
- Miranda Richardson

137. We are the only beings on the planet who lead such rich internal lives that it’s not the events that matter most to us, but rather, it’s how we interpret those events that will determine how we think about ourselves and how we will act in the future.
- Tony Robbins

138. If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.
- John D. Rockefeller

139. I had a couple of million dollars’ worth of … stock once. And now it’s not worth much more than wallpaper. I guess I just wasn’t born to be rich.
- Norman Rockwell

140. Everything we would ever need to become rich and powerful and sophisticated is within our reach. The major reason that so few take advantage of all that we have is simply, neglect.
- Jim Rohn

141. Taxes are important. President Bush’s tax proposals leave no rich person behind. Voters approve of President Bush helping the kind of people they wish they were one of.
- Andy Rooney

142. Do not be fooled into believing that because a man is rich he is necessarily smart. There is ample proof to the contrary.
- Julius Rosenwald

143. There is less pressure as a character actor. It generally means that you will be acting for all of your life, which is my intention. It is not my intention to just be a rich and famous person, that would be pretty boring.
- Tim Roth

144. It is not easy to get rich in Las Vegas, at Churchill Downs, or at the local Merrill Lynch office.
- Paul Samuelson

145. Too many people, because they were white and poor, black and rich, or just plain busy with something other than politics, have felt they had no voice in our government.
- Mark Sanford

146. People live with the illusion that we have a democratic system, but it’s only the outward form of one. In reality we live in a plutocracy, a government of the rich.
- Jose Saramago

147. There are two types of poor people, those who are poor together and those who are poor alone. The first are the true poor, the others are rich people out of luck.
- Jean-Paul Sartre

148. When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die.
- Jean-Paul Sartre

149. People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it’s safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs.
- Alexei Sayle

150. High achievers spot rich opportunities swiftly, make big decisions quickly and move into action immediately. Follow these principles and you can make your dreams come true.
- Robert H. Schuller

151. In the large cities that received new Americans, there flowered a golden age of restaurants, manned by the available talent from abroad and fueled by the restless wealth of the newly rich.
- David Joseph Schwartz

152. There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.
- Seneca

153. No legacy is so rich as honesty.
- William Shakespeare

154. ‘Tis the mind that makes the body rich.
- William Shakespeare

155. I come from a really big family, my father was a businessman and what he always instilled in us was to be your own boss. My father built up his business, and he was by no means a rich man, but he figured out how to work four-and-a-half days a week.
- Tony Shalhoub

156. You can easily find people who are ten times as rich at sixty as they were at twenty; but, not one of them will tell you that they are ten times as happy.
- George Bernard Shaw

157. The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.
- George Bernard Shaw

158. Would that there were an award for people who come to understand the concept of enough. Good enough. Successful enough. Thin enough. Rich enough. Socially responsible enough. When you have self-respect, you have enough.
- Gail Sheehy

159. What is a normal childhood? We weren’t rich, we were pretty middle-class. My dad survived from job to job; with him taking care of so many relatives, he couldn’t save any money.
- Charlie Sheen

160. You can never be too rich or too thin.
- Wallis Simpson

161. All programming for prosperity should be built on spiritual foundations. The first step is to enter the spiritual dimension, the alpha level, and determine what your purpose in life is. Find out what you are here for, what you are supposed to do with your life.
- Jose Silva

162. To suppose as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave as the rich behave, is like supposing that we could drink all day and stay sober.
- Logan P. Smith

163. It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.
- Logan P. Smith

164. With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches.
- Adam Smith

165. Rich folks always talk hard times.
- Lillian Smith

166. Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.
- Solon

167. I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.
- Gertrude Stein

168. President Bush announced his new economic plan. The centerpiece was a proposed repeal of the dividend tax on stocks, a boon that could be worth millions of dollars to average Americans. Well, average stock-owning Americans. Technically, Americans who own a significant amount of shares in dividend-dealing companies. Well, rich people, that’s what I’m trying to say. They’re going to do really well with this.
- Jon Stewart

169. Rich people march on Washington every day.
- I. F. Stone

170. One thing must be granted to the rich: they are good-natured.
- William Graham Sumner

171. No, I’m not rich. I had a tax problem in this country, curiously enough, and my accountant said the British government was patently wrong in taxing me, and they were, but we couldn’t persuade them and it cost me everything I had.
- Donald Sutherland

172. Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.
- Mother Teresa

173. A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.
- Henry David Thoreau

174. That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.
- Henry David Thoreau

175. Sure, my childhood was unusual. All these eccentric, wild people frequented our home: rock stars, drag queens, models, bikers, freaks. But I was not this little rich girl. My mom and I lived in an apartment.
- Liv Tyler

176. As I started getting rich, I started thinking, “What the hell am I going to do with all this money?” … You have to learn to give.
- Ted Turner

177. Over a three year period, I gave away half of what I had. To be honest, my hands shook as I signed it away. I knew I was taking myself out of the race to be the richest man in the world.
- Ted Turner

178. He who is contented is rich.
- Lao Tzu

179. For those of you who don’t understand Reaganomics, it’s based on the principle that the rich and the poor will get the same amount of ice. In Reaganomics, however, the poor get all of theirs in winter.
- Mo Udall

180. To be rich nowadays merely means to possess a large number of poor objects.
- Raoul Vaneigem

181. He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.
- Leonardo da Vinci

182. The rich aren’t like us, they pay less taxes.
- Peter De Vries

183. No matter whether you are a physician, a teacher, or a clergyman, if you can give increase of life to others and make them sensible of that fact, they will be attracted to you, and you will get rich.
- Wallace D. Wattles

184. The poor do not need charity; they need inspiration. Charity only sends them a loaf of bread to keep them alive in their wretchedness, or gives them an entertainment to make them forget for an hour or two. But inspiration can cause them to rise out of their misery. If you want to help the poor, demonstrate to them that they can become rich. Prove it by getting rich yourself.
- Wallace D. Wattles

185. Receiving is the crucial point in the science of getting rich—right here, where thought and personal action must be combined. There are many people who, consciously or unconsciously, set the creative forces in action by the strength and persistence of their desires. However, they remain poor because they do not provide for the reception of the thing they want when it comes. By thought, the thing you want is brought to you. By action, you receive it.
- Wallace D. Wattles

186. Becoming wealthy is not a matter of how much you earn, who your parents are, or what you do … it is a matter of managing your money properly.
- Noel Whittaker

187. Becoming wealthy is like playing Monopoly … the person who can accumulate the most assets wins the game.
- Noel Whittaker

188. 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

189. No man is rich enough to buy back his past.
- Oscar Wilde

190. There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.
- Oscar Wilde

191. Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
- Oscar Wilde

192. In bad times, the rich usually get richer.
- Stuart Wilde

193. There is no amount of money in the world that will make you comfortable if you are not comfortable with yourself.
- Stuart Wilde

194. The rich get richer. Not only because they have surpluses with which to invest, but because of the overriding emotional release they experience from having wealth.
- Stuart Wilde

195. Though I am grateful for the blessings of wealth, it hasn’t changed who I am. My feet are still on the ground. I’m just wearing better shoes.
- Oprah Winfrey

196. Lots of people want to ride with you in the Limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the Limo breaks down.
- Oprah Winfrey

197. ‘Tis a sort of duty to be rich, that it may be in one’s power to do good, riches being another word for power.
- Mary Wortley

198. Men become wise just as they become rich, more by what they save than by what they receive.
- Wilbur Wright

199. I have about concluded that wealth is a state of mind, and that anyone can acquire a wealthy state of mind by thinking rich thoughts.
- Andrew Young

200. The greatest good we can do for others is not just to share our riches with them, but to reveal theirs.
- Zig Ziglar

CONCLUSION

As with the Poor Quotes, there seems to be a lot of debate about the definition of some basic words. In this case, “rich” versus “wealthy” (or “riches” versus “wealth”). According to Dictionary.com, these words are synonyms, and, therefore, interchangeable. If you tend to believe that desiring riches is a bad thing, please see “Greed v. Desire.” If you’ve already overcome that initial hurdle and are looking for practical advice on how to get more riches into your life, see “The Courage to Be Rich” and “Money Lessons for Nice People.” Be awesome! Be your own hero!

[Note: More rich quotes in the comments section below! : ) Rather than changing the title of this post—which would require changing all the links, too—I simply added the ones I found later while working on other quote lists.]

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