Wealthy Quotes - Page 13

• Oprah is rich; Bill Gates is wealthy. If Bill Gates woke up tomorrow with Oprah's money, he'd jump out of a window and slit his throat on the way down saying, 'I can't even put gas in my plane!'

  Chris Rock

  Money, Bills, Way

  "Chris Rock: Never Scared". Documentary, Comedy, April 17, 2004.

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• The only people who become wealthy by being concerned with the future are insurance companies.

  Leo Buscaglia

  People, Wealth, Insurance Companies

  LEO BUSCAGLIA, PH.D. (1982). “LIVING, LOVING & LEARNING”

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• The Nation of Islam was the biggest contributor to the Million Man March, but poor people gave their nickels, dimes and dollars; some wealthy Black people gave money to make that March a success - and every nickel, every dime, every dollar was accounted for.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Men, People, Black

  Source: www.finalcall.com

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• I think that we are not in the position that we used to be. I think we were a very powerful, very wealthy country. And we're a poor country now. We're a debtor nation.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Powerful, Thinking

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• We will lower the tax burden on middle class Americans by asking the very wealthy to pay their fair share. Middle class taxpayers will have a choice between a children's tax credit or a significant reduction in their income tax rate.

  William J. Clinton

  Children, Class, Choices

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• In our case [the United States] it happens to be basically corporate structure. Much of the population is going to be harmed by that. Those policies are designed to turn state power into an instrument that works for the wealthy. Maybe there are some crumbs for the rest of the population, maybe not. But that's given.

  Noam Chomsky

  United States, Population, Structure

  Source: chomsky.info

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• There is no dramatic difference in happiness on the part of people who are wealthy.

  Deborah Norville

  Differences, People, Dramatic

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• I feel that rich women are soft targets.... There's a lot of legitimate resentment and anger about inequality in our culture, about money... I feel like a lot of the anger about income disparity is aimed not at wealthy men, but at wealthy women.

  Wednesday Martin

  Men, Culture, Rich

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• If you're trying to forge bonds on something other than kinship, and forge a tribal identity on something other than relatedness, conformity is a good way to do it. And if you're wealthy, you can do it with a very expensive It bag, or whether it's Vuitton or Valentino at the moment, and it's a way to signal to one another, We're part of this tribe.

  Wednesday Martin

  Trying, Identity, Conformity

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• The developing world voice can be amplified enormously by support from the wealthy and the privileged, otherwise it's very likely to be marginalized.

  Noam Chomsky

  Voice, Support, World

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• It's possible to be a woman married to a very wealthy, powerful man but to be relatively disempowered. Not just relative to him, relative to a middle class woman who works.

  Wednesday Martin

  Powerful, Men, Married

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I feel engaged with young people in Pakistan. But that said, it's still a small minority that reads novels, literary fiction. But it isn't necessarily a small minority of the wealthy elite in the city of Lahore. It can often be and I often do meet at literary festivals students who've ridden a bus 12 hours from a very small town just to hear some of their favorite writers come and speak.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Cities, Often Is, People

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I'm a writer who doesn't much think about money because money doesn't really care about me. In other nations, art gets subsidized. Writers aren't wealthy by any means, but there's the idea that the state supports the creation of art.

  Kimberly Peirce

  Art, Mean, Thinking

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• ...99% of the casualties linked to climate change occur in developing countries. Worst hit are the world's poorest groups. While climate change will increasingly affect wealthy countries, the brunt of the impact is being borne by the poor, whose plight simply receives less attention.

  Rajendra K. Pachauri

  Country, Impact, World

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• I suppose no one is as handsome or as beautiful as he or she wishes, or as brilliant in school or as witty in speech or as wealthy as we would like, but in a world of varied talents and fortunes that we can't always command, I think that makes even more attractive the qualities we can command--such qualities as thoughtfulness, patience, a kind word, and true delight in the accomplishment of another. These cost us nothing, and they can mean everything to the one who receives them.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Beautiful, Witty, School

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• I repeat, sir, that in whatever position you place a woman she is an ornament to society and a treasure to the world. As a sweetheart, she has few equals and no superiors; as a cousin, she is convenient; as a wealthy grandmother with an incurable distemper, she is precious; as a wet-nurse, she has no equal among men. What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce.

  Mark Twain

  Cousin, Grandmother, Men

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain’s Letters & Speeches (Annotated Edition)”, p.1026, Jazzybee Verlag

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• My mom just didn't put a very high premium on me being like really famous or really wealthy or anything.

  Martha Plimpton

  Mom, Fame, Premium

  "Q & A: Raising Hope’s Martha Plimpton on being a child actress, guest stars and Twitter". Interview with Lance Carter, www.dailyactor.com. September 27, 2011.

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• So long as there are nobles and commoners, the wealthy and the poor, those with power will be heard, and those without ignored. That's the world.

  Tamora Pierce

  Long, World, Ignored

  Tamora Pierce (2014). “Protector of the Small Quartet”, p.487, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• A child born in a wealthy country is likely to consume, waste, and pollute more in his lifetime than 50 children born in developing nations. Our energy-burning lifestyles are pushing our planet to the point of no return. It is dawning on us at last that the life of our world is as vulnerable as the children we raise.

  George Carey

  Country, Children, Our World

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• Even though sugar was very expensive, people consumed it till their teeth turned black, and if their teeth didn't turn black naturally, they blackened them artificially to show how wealthy and marvelously self-indulgent they were.

  Bill Bryson

  Self, People, Black

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• The fundamental problem with the immigration system in America is that it serves the needs of wealthy donors, political activists and powerful, powerful politicians.

  Donald Trump

  Powerful, America, Political

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I just follow my nose, and instead of letting someone run my affairs and probably make me wealthy within a matter of years, I've just kept the board of directors down to zero. I make all the decisions, and they can't all be right, and my lifestyle is very expensive, so that means I have to work a lot. It's the opposite side of the coin from sinking back into the recliner and becoming somebody they bury.

  Merle Haggard

  Running, Mean, Decision

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• You know what I mean. I'm telling you I was stupid over it. I thought it was about trying so hard to survive that you didn't have the time to be a good parent. Obviously, that's not it. Because you and I, we're both...wealthy in love.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Stupid, Mean, Parent

  Maggie Stiefvater (2013). “The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)”, p.322, Scholastic Inc.

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• Blue thought about what Gansey had said, about being wealthy in love. And she thought about Adam, still collapsed on their sofa downstairs. If he had no one to wrap their arms around him when he was sad, could he be forgiven for letting his anger lead him?

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Blue, Arms, Adam

  Maggie Stiefvater (2013). “The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)”, p.330, Scholastic Inc.

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• [Speaking to a group of wealthy New Yorkers] A million years ago, the cave man, without tools, with small brain, and with nothing but the strength of his body, managed to feed his wife and children, so that through him the race survived. You on the other hand, armed with all the modern means of production, multiplying the productive capacity of the cave man a million times — you are incompetents and muddlers, you are unable to secure to millions even the paltry amount of bread that would sustain their physical life. You have mismanaged the world, and it shall be taken from you. 

  Jack London

  Children, Taken, Mean

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