Rich People Quotes

“The money you make is a symbol of the value you create.”
― Idowu Koyenikan, Wealth for All: Living a Life of Success at the Edge of Your Ability

“There are people who have money and people who are rich.”
― Coco Chanel

“Rich men have dreams. Poor men die to make them come true.”
― Glen Cook, Water Sleeps

“People who advocate simplicity have money in the bank; the money came first, not the simplicity.”
― Douglas Coupland, The Gum Thief

“There's always something to do if you don't have to work or consider the cost. It's no real fun but the rich don't know that. They never had any. They never want anything very hard except maybe somebody else's wife and that's a pretty pale desire compared with the way a plumber's wife wants new curtains for the living room.”
― Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye

“Everywhere the weak execrate the powerful, before whom they cringe; and the powerful beat them like sheep whose wool and flesh they sell.”
― Voltaire, Candide

“After having everything, a rich man seeks applause and reverence, for there is guilt in his mind. The guilt of having everything in this world.”
― Abhaidev, The Influencer: Speed Must Have a Limit

“Remembrance of things past is just for the rich. For the poor it only marks the faint traces on the path to death.”
― Albert Camus, The First Man

“[W]hat is always overlooked is that although the poor want to be rich, it does not follow that they either like the rich or that they in any way want to emulate their characters which, in fact, they despise. Both the poor and the rich have always found precisely the same grounds on which to complain about each other. Each feels the other has no manners, is disloyal, corrupt, insensitive - and has never put in an honest day's work in its life.”
― Elaine Dundy, Elvis and Gladys

“Rich people don’t have to have a life-and-death relationship with the truth and its questions; they can ignore the truth and still thrive materially. I am not surprised many of them understand literature only as an ornament. Life is an ornament to them, relationships are ornaments, their 'work' is but a flimsy, pretty ornament meant to momentarily thrill and capture attention.”
― Sergio Troncoso, Crossing Borders: Personal Essays

“The only thing I like about rich people is their money.”
― Nancy Astor the Viscountess Astor

“The Vikings thought they were big shots because they had boats. You know how obnoxious people get when they own a boat. They always want to go on the boat. "We're taking the boat out this weekend. It's supposed to be beautiful. Why don't you come? You never come. You're always working. You know how many people wish they would get invited to come on the boat? And you turn it down.”
― Colin Quinn, The Coloring Book: A Comedian Solves Race Relations in America

“Jo, they have a baby grand piano, but no one in the family plays. They have shelves of books they've never read, and the tension between the couples was so thick it nearly choked us."
"Let me tell you something 'bout those rich Uptown folk," said Cokie. "They got everything that money can buy, their bank accounts are fat, but they ain't happy. They ain't ever gone be happy. You know why? They soul broke. And money can't fix that, no sir. My friend Bix was poor. Lord, he had to blow that trumpet ten hours a day just to put a little taste in the pot. Died poor, too. You saw him, Jo, with that plate on his chest. But that man wasn't soul broke.”
― Ruta Sepetys, Out of the Easy

“She had a new bracelet on, stacked with emeralds brighter than her eyes. I hate rich people.”
― Helen Oyeyemi, The Icarus Girl

“Behind every great fortune lies a great crime. —HONORÉ DE BALZAC”
― Daniel Silva

“I think if the plan is to count on the benevolence and wisdom and courage of billionaires, that’s a bad plan.”
― Rachel Maddow

“Men want to be a rich man. Women want to get a rich man.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“The best way to help the poor is to help them get rich.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“It was hard not to stare at Jjason's mom, specifically the humongous diamond on her hand. I thought I might go blind.”
― Kelly Yang, Front Desk

“It was hard not to stare at Jason's mom, specifically the humongous diamond on her hand. I thought I might go blind.”
― Kelly Yang, Front Desk

“It was morbidly fascinating to hear rich people discuss what to do with the rest of us.”
― Byrd Nash, Delicious Death

“The rich don’t have to kill to eat. They “employ” people, as they call it. The rich don’t do evil themselves. They pay. People do all they can to please them, and everybody’s happy. They have beautiful women, the poor have ugly ones. Clothing aside, they’re the product of centuries. Easy to look at, well fed, well washed. After all these years, life can boast no greater accomplishment. It’s no use trying, we slide, we skid, we fall back into the alcohol that preserves the living and the dead, we get nowhere. It’s been proved. After all these centuries of watching our domestic animals coming into the world, laboring and dying before our eyes without anything more unusual ever happening to them either than taking up the same insipid fiasco where so many other animals had left off, we should have caught on. Endless waves of useless beings keep rising from deep down in the ages to die in front of our noses, and yet here we stay, hoping for something …”
― Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night

“The rich won't win. They are pampered blokes. We have daily struggles. They don't even know what struggle is in life. We face adversities on a daily basis. They lead a life of luxury. We have to make choices for our survival. They don't know that they have to make any kind of choices. We have to take care of our families. They don't know what they want. We have to fight on a daily basis to earn our pennies. They squander their money on stupid luxuries. We fight for survival. They give a damn to us and the world.
~ Call me the Professor or Poet or Avijeet or Musafir”
― Avijeet Das

“She wore her hustle the same as Marilyn wore her femme drag.
Breathy attention, exclamations of interest—false, false—and still so
captivating. The rich want to believe in the hologram. They always want to
believe”
― LJ Pemberton, Still Alive

“What is it like to be rich in wealth, power, fame but poor health”
― Guru Deepik Kariyawasam

“Counting your blessings on a private jet, doesn't make you grounded.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Divine Refugee

“Careless is the first adjective that comes to mind when describing the rich in this novel. The dream they embody is an alloyed dream that destroys whoever tries to get close to it.”
― Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books

“Finding god in the poor is easy. Divinity doesn’t dwell in the rich. It can’t stand them.”
― Myriam Gurba

“If we have not been able to create a prosperous world, the blame for this should not only be placed on the greedy and predatory people who have become extremely rich, but also on the naive poor who allow and help such people to become rich!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“James Madison framed the constitutional order so that power would be in the hands of the Senate, which represents “the wealth of the nation,” the “more capable sett of men,” who have respect for property owners and their rights and understand the need for government “to protect the minority of the opulent against the majority”—though it was not long before he came to deplore “the daring depravity of the times,” as the “stockjobbers will become the pretorian band of the government—at once its tools and its tyrant; bribed by its largesses, and overawing it by clamors and combinations” (1792).”
― Noam Chomsky, Hopes and Prospects