Wealthy Quotes - Page 13

• Growing up, I didn't have a family of creatives. I didn't have knowledge that becoming an artist was an option. I'm not from a wealthy family, and when you come from those circumstances, doing art isn't really an option.

  Kesh

  Art, Growing Up, Becoming

  Source: www.elle.com

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• It does not help the vast majority of Americans, but it does really well for people already at the top. Well, we're going to turn that upside down. We're going to make the wealthy pay their fair share in taxes for a change.

  Hillary Clinton

  People, Majority, Doe

  "Report: Ex-Fox Chief Roger Ailes Spent Millions on Enemies; Clinton Responds to Trump's Economic Plan; Clinton Says Trump Will Give "Super-Big Tax Breaks" to Rich; Jeb Bush's Son Breaks with Father And Endorses Trump; Charity Offers Free Soccer Clinics to Thousands". "CNN Newsroom", www.cnn.com. August 8, 2016.

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• I'd say it's that most people think that very wealthy people take huge risks and that's why they have huge rewards. But the very best on earth are completely obsessed with not losing money. That sounds overly simplistic, but they know that if you lost 50 percent, it takes 100 percent to get even. Most people don't make that math in their head, so it takes years and years. They are obsessed with not losing money.

  Tony Robbins

  Math, Thinking, Years

  "Interview with Tony Robbins on His New Book, ‘Money: Master the Game’". Interview With Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 20, 2014.

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• One of the things we learned from that panel is the way poor communities use a library is very different from wealthy communities. But the way the library books are measured are by how many books are taken out. And people in poor communities sometimes won't take the book out because they're afraid to. They're afraid of losing it and not being able to replace it.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Book, Taken, People

  "Talking in Our Pajamas: A Conversation with Sandra Cisneros on Finding Your Voice, Fear of Highways, Tacos, Travel, and the Need for Peace in the World". Interview with Ruth Behar, quod.lib.umich.edu. 2008.

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• If you have potato chips, that means, "Who's coming over?"Wealthy people - white people who're wealthy - have a bag of potato chips that's folded over with a clip. "What? There's some left over?" In my house, if there was a bag of potato chips, we'd pour it in a bowl and everybody would just dip in till it was gone.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Mean, White, People

  "Talking in Our Pajamas: A Conversation with Sandra Cisneros on Finding Your Voice, Fear of Highways, Tacos, Travel, and the Need for Peace in the World". Interview with Ruth Behar, quod.lib.umich.edu. September 28, 2006.

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• [Donald Trump] would give wealthy families 30 cents or 40 cents on the dollar for their nannies, and little or nothing for millions of hardworking families trying to afford child care.

  Hillary Clinton

  Children, Giving, Trying

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• It is an essential feature of the just state that the wealthy be kept away from political power and that the politically powerful be kept away from wealth.

  Rebecca Goldstein

  Powerful, Political, Essentials

  Rebecca Newberger Goldstein (2014). “Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away”, p.199, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I am working right at both the levels- with the most wealthy clients in the world, but also the poorest. I spend half my time designing for people that have nothing.

  William McDonough

  People, Design, Half

  Source: www.triplepundit.com

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• Great people in the United States have been disenfranchised.I'll give you an example, it has always been the way to do it, to work hard, save your money, put your money in the bank, get interest on your money and retire wealthy, at least modestly wealthy. Well, the people that have done that have been hurt terribly because there is no interest on your money. You get no money. I just signed for some CDs where you are getting a quarter of one percent. A quarter of one percent! They don't even want your money, the banks.

  Donald Trump

  Hurt, Hard Work, Cds

  Source: www.economist.com

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• I was travelling with Bruce Sterling on our mutual Difference Engine tour and he became aware from the experience of travelling with me that I would distinguish among the shoes in a perfectly normal fashion, but form him it was a revelation. There's a very lyrical passage in Holy Fire about old wealthy European men and their shoes, and how beautiful their shoes are, and how there have never been shoes as beautiful. I think that that was probably as close as Bruce will ever get to homage in my direction. I made him aware of footwear fashion.

  William Gibson

  Beautiful, Fashion, Men

  Source: craphound.com

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• One of the things that even wealthy children need is an education, and I think the problems I saw really have nothing to do with economics. So I was unhappy with what my own children were getting even in the better schools, and then I was seeing so many children here recruited for failure.

  Marva Collins

  Children, School, Thinking

  Source: reason.com

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• If most of the breaks go to wealthy people it's because most of the people who pay taxes are wealthy.

  George W. Bush

  People, Pay, Break

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• I'm not ridiculously wealthy, but I don't squander money either.

  Slash

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• Organised brigandage has ceased to exist, but murder and highway robbery are still far too common in the less frequented districts. Travellers rarely suffer to-day, however. It is the wealthy inhabitants who run risks at the hand of the mafia, or lawless Sicilian.

  Alec-Tweedie

  Running, Hands, Risk

  Mrs. Alec-Tweedie (Ethel) (1904). “Sunny Sicily: Its Rustics and Its Ruins”

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• Were all the pleasures in the world, even pure air, made solely for the rich? I think it is immoral - it is horrible! - that one man may own twenty millions of money, and another has to commit a crime to keep the life in his miserable body. And if I were wealthy, I'd be a spendthrift! It's the spendthrifts who are the real friends of the poor. Some of their money filters through to the very lowest classes.

  Ellen Buckingham Mathews

  Real, Men, Thinking

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• Its quite confusing being one of the less wealthy people at a posh place.

  Sally Phillips

  People, Confusing, Posh

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• But is it just then that the few and the wealthy should be the rulers? And what if they, in like manner, rob and plunder the people, - is this just?

  Aristotle

  Government, People, What If

  Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.98, Aristotle

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• We [the Republicans] help the middle class when we unburden them from the very policies that Hillary Clinton would double down on. She champions Big Government, which we know enables crony capitalism and exacerbates inequality. If you are wealthy, powerful and well-connected, you can handle Big Government.

  Carly Fiorina

  Powerful, Government, Class

  "Reynolds: Carly Fiorina, the other woman". Interview with Glenn Harlan Reynolds, www.usatoday.com. July 19, 2015.

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• I didn't come from a wealthy family. I had no money. Maybe it goes back to naivete which is your greatest asset when you're young. If I was starting in comedy today and if it didn't work the first time, I'd probably quit. But I kept at it, kept at it.

  Steve Martin

  Today, Firsts, Comedy

  "COVER STORY : A Side Order of Steve Martin : He's had his ups and downs with L.A., but they're back together in his new movie". Interview with Elaine Dutka, articles.latimes.com. February 3, 1991.

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• For every person seeking greatness, there are hundreds more charged with safeguarding mediocrity.  If you want to be wealthy, stop taking financial advice from broke people.

  Randy Gage

  Greatness, People, Advice

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• For the fifth year in a row, the Bush budget cuts city core services to pay for wealthy tax breaks. And once again, the mayor's requests were not funded.

  Anthony Weiner

  Cutting, Years, Cities

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• The fact that wealthy people or people from privileged backgrounds may wind up in a violent terrorist organization is not new.

  Lowell Bergman

  Wind, Organization, People

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• They had a profile of John Kerry on the news and they said his first wife was worth around $300 million and his second wife, his current wife, is worth around $700 million. So when John Kerry says he's going after the wealthy in this country, he's not just talking. He's doing it!

  Jay Leno

  Country, Talking, Wife

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• Wealthy people have not disappeared, they are just not so willing to show off their wealth.

  Martin Parr

  People, Wealth, Shows

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• To be financially wealthy you must have a purpose for your life. In other words, without purpose, you'll never know when you have enough money, and you can never be financially wealthy.

  Gary W. Keller

  Motivation, Purpose, Enough

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