Wealthy Quotes - Page 4

• The biggest start-up successes - from Henry Ford to Bill Gates to Mark Zuckerberg - were pioneered by people from solidly middle-class backgrounds. These founders were not wealthy when they began. They were hungry for success, but knew they had a solid support system to fall back on if they failed.

  Eric Ries

  Fall, Zuckerberg, Class

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• I'd probably be a super wealthy guy if I had sat around writing songs and getting them placed like everyone else I know. But I write songs about people or after I meet them and they're somewhat biographical - they're fiction but also non-fiction.

  Nile Rodgers

  Song, Writing, People

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• I think wealthy conservatives are busy investing in profit and job creation and enterprise, and wealthy liberals, many of them either from the media industry themselves or from - they recognize the value of communications and are more ready to put money into a less profitable enterprise, namely the media.

  Karl Rove

  Jobs, Communication, Thinking

  "NewsBusters Interview: Karl Rove Slams Lefty Blogosphere, Talks Media, Praises iPhone". Interview with Matthew Sheffield, www.newsbusters.org. March 21, 2008.

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• What's your status?" she asked him. "Healthy, wealthy, and wise. What's yours?" "Ha. Mean, crafty, and rude.

  Nora Roberts

  Wise, Mean, Rude

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• While I recognize the great value and importance of prescription drugs and strongly support a continued U.S. focus on pharmaceutical research and development, our nation's seniors cannot be asked to subsidize the drug costs of other wealthy industrialized nations any longer.

  Michael K. Simpson

  Senior, Research And Development, Focus

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• Tax rates for the wealthy should revert to Clinton-era levels, both because it is necessary for long-term deficit reduction and because fairness dictates it. Moreover, there is no proof that higher marginal rates dissuade investment, all the rhetoric from the Right notwithstanding.

  Eliot Spitzer

  Long, Levels, Eras

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• I don’t hate redheads! The millionaire men - wealthy men - never pick them. Every time I offer them they say no. I could say the most gorgeous redhead in the world and they’ll say no, they don’t want it. Now if you ask an Irish guy in Ireland, he says yes. Because that’s indigenous to that country.

  Patti Stanger

  Country, Hate, Men

  "Patti Stanger, Millionaire Matchmaker, On New York Women, Marc Anthony, Season 5". Interview with Youyoung Lee, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 1, 2011.

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• There are probably more annoying things than being hectored about African development by a wealthy Irish rock star in a cowboy hat, but I can't think of one at the moment.

  Paul Theroux

  Stars, Cowboy, Thinking

  "Are U2 the last great rock'n'roll idealists?" by Luke Bainbridge, www.theguardian.com. August 08, 2009.

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• I have had lots of friends who've been affected by Aids and a very good friend of mine, Oscar Moore, died of Aids and I was with him in his last year quite a bit. And of course he was a man living in a very rich culture with a wealthy family who was able to afford health care.

  Emma Thompson

  Friends, Good Friend, Men

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• I came from a rural background, and I didn't come in contact with a lot of wealthy people.

  Josh Turner

  People, Backgrounds, Contact

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• Coming from where I came from, it was unimaginable to ever be wealthy. That was just too far out of my reach.

  Shania Twain

  Unimaginable

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• All my life I've been prejudiced against wealthy people.

  Ethel Waters

  People

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• Do you know," he said, "there are men who would like very much to see me dead. Powerful men. Obscenely wealthy me. Men who can afford to be patient and engage the services of large, ruthless brutes. I've managed to evade them all. But you...God's truth, I think you'll be the very death of me.

  Tessa Dare

  Powerful, Men, Thinking

  Tessa Dare (2010). “Three Nights with a Scoundrel”, p.19, Ballantine Books

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• Barrons was powerful, broodingly good-looking, insanely wealthy, frighteningly intelligent, and had exquisite taste, not to mention a hard body that emitted some kind of constant low-level charge. Bottom line: He was the stuff of heroes. And psychotic killers.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Powerful, Hero, Intelligent

  Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.458, Dell

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• The vanity extended most of all to his library, arguably the real love of Cicero's life. It is difficult to name anything in which he took more pleasure, aside possibly evasion of the sumptuary laws. Cicero liked to believe himself wealthy. He prided himself on his books. He needed no further reason to dislike Cleopatra: intelligent women who had better libraries than he did offended him on three counts.

  Stacy Schiff

  Real, Believe, Book

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• Everyone wants a bit of something beautiful." Clara said. "Among the wealthy it's the rare skins and furs sold on the black market. With everyone else it's whatever they find clogging the gutters or killed in the housetraps. It al amounts to the same thing, of course, but the rich people feel better knowing they've paid a fortune.

  Kristin Cashore

  Beautiful, Feel Better, Knowing

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.129, Penguin

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• The Constitution. . . illustrates the complexity of the American system: that it serves the interests of a wealthy elite, but also does enough for small property owners, for middle-income mechanics and farmers, to build a broad base of support. The slightly prosperous people who make up this base of support are buffers against the blacks, the Indians, the very poor whites. They enable the elite to keep control with a minimum of coercion, a maximum of law--all made palatable by the fanfare of patriotism and unity.

  Howard Zinn

  Law, People, Support

  Howard Zinn (2015). “A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present”, p.99, Routledge

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• I'm bound to say that New York's a topping place to be exiled in. Everybody was awfully good to me, and there seemed to be plenty of things going on, and I'm a wealthy bird, so everything was fine.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  New York, Bird, Toppings

  P. G. Wodehouse (2015). “My Man Jeeves”, p.3, Booklassic

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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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• Ivy Hisselpenny was the unfortunate victim of circumstances that dictated she be only-just-pretty, only-just-wealthy, and possessed of a terrible propensity for wearing extremely silly hats.

  Gail Carriger

  Silly, Ivy, Hats

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• All of us, poor & rich alike, have been conditioned by our upbringings. Impoverished men & women may become lulled into a state of "learned helplessness" without hope to change their lives. Likewise, the wealthy can walk in a state of "learned blindness" ignoring the desperation of the local & global poor.

  John Green

  Men, May, Rich

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• but what should we do when the highborn and wealthy take to crime? Indeed, if a poor man will spend a year in prison for stealing out of hunger, how high would the gallows need to be to hang the rich man who breaks the law out of greed?

  Terry Pratchett

  Men, Years, Law

  Terry Pratchett (2011). “Snuff: (Discworld Novel 39)”, p.19, Random House

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• Don't tell me about worth," Nita said. "My father commands fleets." "The wealthy measure everything with the weight of their money." Tool leaned close. "Sadna once risked herself and the rest of her crew to help me escape from an oil fire... Your father commands fleets. And thousands of half-men, I am sure. But would he risk himself to save a single one?

  Paolo Bacigalupi

  Father, Men, Fire

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• Peter Lake had no illusions about mortality. He knew that it made everyone perfectly equal, and that the treasures of the earth were movement, courage, laughter, and love. The wealthy could not buy these things. On the contrary, they were for the taking.

  Mark Helprin

  Love, Laughter, Lakes

  Mark Helprin (1983). “Winter's Tale”, p.151, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In Europe the rich are refined enough to act as if they're not wealthy. That is how civilized people behave. If you ask me, being cultured and civilized is not about everyone being free and equal; it's about everyone being refined enough to act as if they were. Then no one has to feel guilty.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Europe, People, Being Free

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