Get Rich Quotes - Page 6

• If you get rich in the name of the poor, fine and dandy. The problem is when you earn it. If you earn the money in the private sector by starting a business and hiring a lot of people, that's when you become the enemy.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Names, People, Enemy

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• If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by persons who move their lips when they're reading to themselves.

  Don Marquis

  Moving, Reading, Writing

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• While the richest people on earth pray to get richer, the rest of the world begs for intervention with their faces pressed to the window, watching us drink our coffee, unruffled by their suffering.

  Jen Hatmaker

  Coffee, People, Suffering

  Jen Hatmaker (2012). “7: An Experimental Mutiny Against Excess”, p.90, B&H Publishing Group

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• When you see millions and billions of dollars being made in a genre, there are going to be copycats and people who jump in for the wrong reasons. Ten years ago, nobody was going to make dance music to try and get rich or even make a living. You couldn't! It was impossible.

  Kaskade

  People, Trying, Impossible

  "Kaskade remixes what it means to be an EDM superstar for intimate Spring Fling tour". Interview with Spencer Dukoff, www.nydailynews.com. May 14, 2017.

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• Very, very few entrepreneurs who accept a 51 percent partner in a new venture will get rich if they are also expected to run it. Control is mandatory.

  Felix Dennis

  Running, New Ventures, Entrepreneur

  Felix Dennis (2011). “The Narrow Road: A Brief Guide to the Getting of Money”, p.31, Penguin

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• You’re only poor if you give up. The most important thing is that you did something. Most people only talk and dream of getting rich. You’ve done something.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspirational, Dream, Giving Up

  Robert T. Kiyosaki (2016). “Rich Dad, Poor Dad”, p.21, Lulu Press, Inc

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• I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes to get rich by credit, to get knowledge by raps on midnight tables, to learn the economy of the mind by phrenology, or skill without study, or mastery without apprenticeship.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hope, Hate, Rap

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2514, Delphi Classics

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• If there were an honorable way to get rich, I’d do it, even if it meant being a stooge standing around with a whip. But there isn’t an honorable way, so I just do what I like.

  Confucius

  Way, Rich, Honorable

  Confucius (1998). “The Analects”, Counterpoint LLC

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• One of the Great Rules of Economics According to John Green If you are rich, you have to be an idiot not to stay rich. And if you are poor, you have to be really smart to get rich.

  John Green

  Smart, Green, Idiot

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• Some people wanted to get rich or famous, but my friends and I wanted to get real. We wanted to get deep. (Also, I suppose, we wanted to get laid.)

  Anne Lamott

  Real, People, Rich

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• What are the odds that people will make smart decisions about money if they don't need to make smart decisions--if they can get rich making dumb decisions? The incentives on Wall Street were all wrong; they're still all wrong.

  Michael Lewis

  Wall, Smart, Odds

  Michael Lewis (2015). “The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (movie tie-in)”, p.266, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Wealth is in applications of mind to nature; and the art of getting rich consists not in industry, much less in saving, but in a better order, in timeliness, in being at the right spot.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Nature, Order

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.361, Рипол Классик

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• As recently as the 1970s, the idea that the point of life was to get rich and that governments existed to facilitate this would have been ridiculed: not only by capitalism's traditional critics but also by many of its staunchest defenders.

  Tony Judt

  Government, Ideas, Wealth

  Tony Judt (2010). “Ill Fares the Land”, p.29, Penguin

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• The term 'income inequality' is a bit misleading because it suggests in a somewhat pejorative way that the rich are getting richer at the expense of the poor.

  Edward Lazear

  Income, Way, Rich

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• I had to get rich so I could afford to sing like I was poor again.

  Dolly Parton

  Music, Money, Poverty

  Dolly Parton (2012). “Dream More: Celebrate the Dreamer in You”, p.71, Penguin

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• Most people get into bands for three very simple rock and roll reasons: to get laid, to get fame, and to get rich.

  Bob Geldof

  Simple, Rocks, Rock And Roll

  1977 In Melody Maker, 27 Aug.

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• How to get rich ... whenever I meet people, that's usually what they want to know from me. You ask a banker how he makes bread. You ask a billionaire how he makes money.

  Donald Trump

  People, Bankers, Want

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• You can't get rich sitting on the bench.

  Phil Linz

  Sitting, Benches, Rich

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• You know, every time a summer movie comes out, people think they're gonna get rich off of the merchandise.

  Aaron McGruder

  Summer, Thinking, People

  "Boondocks Speaks: An Interview with Aaron McGruder". Interview with Jennifer A. Carbin, www.alternet.org. November 4, 2001.

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• ....All drugs should be legal. War is wrong. The rich get richer. The poor get poorer. Thank you. I'll be here all week.

  Bill Hicks

  War, Drug, Rich

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• It's going to be really interesting to see what the heroin market does in the next two years or so. One thing you can be pretty sure of. The Afghan peasants who grow poppies won't get rich. The money will end up in places like Dubai.

  Bruce Sterling

  Dubai, Years, Two

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• Mean Streets dealt with the American Dream, according to which everybody thinks they can get rich quick, and if they can't do it by legal means then they'll do it by illegal ones.

  Martin Scorsese

  Dream, Mean, Thinking

  "Scorsese on Scorsese". Book editing by Ian Christie, David Thompson, 2003.

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• If I became lost in the multiverse, exploring infinite parallel dimensions, my only criterion for settling down somewhere would be whether or not I could find you: and once I did, I'd stay there even if it was a world ruled by giant spider-priests, or one where killer robots won the Civil War, or even a world where sandwiches were never invented, because you'd make it the best of all possible worlds anyway, and plus we could get rich off inventing sandwiches.

  Tim Pratt

  Love, Romantic, War

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• The faster you want to get rich, the more accurate with numbers you must be.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Numbers, Want, Rich

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• Being an #‎ entrepreneur is not a get-rich scheme; it takes #‎ strength of character to keep going.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Strength, Being Strong, Business

  Twitter post from Jul 16, 2013

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