Rich Poor Quotes

I have had the opportunity to become acquainted with many wonderful people from many walks of life. I have known rich and poor, famous and modest, wise and otherwise. ~ Joseph B. Wirthlin

It took one move, one Podunk town - shit, one girl - to realize that we're all just people. Rich, poor, talented, awkward - we're all just people, trying to survive the world that seems hell bent on trying to ruin us before we can find our place. It ~ Kristen Kehoe

Public policy today is favoring the rich, not the poor. It's not addressing the needs of the poor. ~ Joseph Lowery

It is harder for a poor man to be successful than it is for a rich man. ~ Gregory Nunn

Bioscience and biotech offer many opportunities. The U.S. focuses on the rich man; India has rich man diseases and poor man diseases. So you have a much larger set of opportunities. ~ Romesh Wadhwani

The man possessed of a dollar, feels himself to be not merely one hundred cents richer, but also one hundred cents better, than the man who is penniless; so on through all the gradations of earthly possessions - the estimate of our own moral and political importance swelling always in a ratio exactly proportionate to the growth of our purse. ~ Frances Wright

You should never protest outside a rich guy's home during the day because he's not there. He's at work grinding the faces of the poor. ~ Craig Ferguson

Paul's vision, though, is starting small, with actual communities in which reconciliation and justice has to be practiced - like the rich/poor distinction in the Corinthian church, for instance, or the projected reconciliation between Philemon and Onesimus. But he clearly believes (Ephesians 3) that communities like this send a signal to the wider world that Jesus is Lord - which is aimed at then the whole world coming into line. ~ N. T. Wright

Bring the genius of the rich to unleash the genius of the poor. ~ Tony Meloto

The rich are staying in school, and the poor are being drafted. I can't live with that. ~ Donald E. Graham

Listen to the lyrics - we're singing about everyday life: rich people trying to keep money, poor people tying to get it, and everyone having trouble with their husband or wife! ~ Buddy Guy

It's a sin to be rich, but it's a low down shame to be poor. ~ Lightnin' Hopkins

No one is ever too old, too rich, too poor, to pray. ~ Loretta Young

Trouble brews when we steal from the poor and give to the rich. ~ Robert Kiyosaki

Whatever happens, whether you get rich or stay poor, ruin your health or live to old age, you always end up back where you started: hungry for the one thing everybody loses - young loving. ~ Toni Morrison

The true way to gain much, is never to desire to gain too much. ~ Francis Beaumont

Rich people are poor people with money. ~ George Orwell

It is not very unreasonable that the rich should contribute to the public expense, not only in proportion to their revenue, but something more than in that proportion. ~ Adam Smith

School is not meant for the poor, only for the rich. ~ Olusegun Obasanjo

The most wonderful street in the universe is Broadway. It is a world within itself. High and low, rich and poor, pass along at a rate peculiar to New York, and positively bewildering to a stranger. ~ Frank Rich

I go to colleges all the time in America, and everyone's gay, and I think how can this be? And it's only in rich schools. In poor schools, nobody's gay. ~ John Waters

The Eucharist is a symbol of that as you have bread, the staple food of the poor, and wine, a luxury of the rich, which are brought together at the table. ~ Shane Claiborne

The great thing about being rich is, you can embrace practices that kill the poor - that's what socialism does. ~ Greg Gutfeld

I don't mind the rich getting richer, but the poor shouldn't be getting poorer, and there should be more people moving into the middle class. ~ Dannel Malloy

Being poor is like being a child. Being rich is like being an adult: you get to do whatever you want. Everyone is nice when they have to be; rich people are nice when they feel like it. ~ Fran Lebowitz

The more one considers the matter, the clearer it becomes that redistribution is in effect far less a redistribution of free income from the richer to the poorer, as we imagined, than a redistribution of power from the individual to the State. ~ Bertrand De Jouvenel

Jesus announced a great reversal of values in His Sermon on the Mount, elevating not the rich or attractive, but rather the poor, the persecuted, and those who mourn. ~ Philip Yancey

If all men were rich, all men would be poor. ~ Mark Twain

I don't want to change. I don't ever want to be a stuck-up asshole. I mean, some people probably think I am now, but I don't care what they think, because I know I'm not. I'm a down to earth person. I always have time for my fans. I don't care who they are, what they look like, if they're rich or poor, pretty or ugly. I always have time for them. I wouldn't be where I am today if it wasn't for them, and I'll never forget that. ~ Lita Ford

The rich stick together; the poor and the marginalised are thrown together. ~ Tariq Ramadan

We have, in the E.U., a market rigged in favour of the rich and stacked against the poor, and I think that's wrong. ~ Michael Gove

The wealth of the country, its capital, its credit, must be saved from the predatory poor as well as the predatory rich, but above all from the predatory politician. ~ James J. Hill

For those of you who don't understand Reaganomics, it's based on the principle that the rich and the poor will get the same amount of ice. In Reaganomics, however, the poor get all of theirs in winter. ~ Mo Udall

Rich people choose to get paid based on results. Poor people choose to get paid based on time. ~ T. Harv Eker

Sometimes, what is right for you at the beginning of your life is not the right thing for you at the end of your life. ~ Robert Kiyosaki

The most life destroying word of all is the word tomorrow. ~ Robert Kiyosaki

For my part, it is not the mystery of the incarnation which I discover in religion, but the mystery of social order, which associates with heaven that idea of equality which prevents the rich from destroying the poor ~ Napoleon Bonaparte

If you sell to the rich, you will become poor. If you sell to the poor, you can become rich. It is easier to get one peso from a million poor people than to get one million from one rich person. ~ John Gokongwei

Civil rights for all Americans, black, white, red, yellow, the rich, poor, young, old, gay, straight, et cetera, is not a liberal or a conservative value. It's an American value that I would think that we pretty much all agree on. ~ Jerry Falwell

Happiness and suffering do not depend on being poor or rich, they depend on having the right or wrong understanding in our mind. ~ Ajahn Chah

I would rather write for the instruction, or even the amusement of the poor than for the amusement of the rich. ~ Frederick Marryat

There are many different ways to be poor in the world but increasingly there seems to be one single way to be rich. ~ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Before you can transform your wallet from poor to rich, you've got to transform your spirit from poor to rich. ~ Robert Kiyosaki

The poor of the world cannot be made rich by the redistribution of wealth. Poverty can't be eliminated by punishing people who've escaped poverty, taking their money and giving it as a reward to people who have failed to escape. ~ P. J. O'Rourke

Every city is a war. A thousand fights being fought between a hundred groups. Rich, poor, old, young, born-here, and not-born-here. The followers of this god and the followers of that one. Someone will have the upper hand in each of these battles. Those people will make the rules, whether they're administered by priests or soldiers or politicians or programs. Fixing this is hard. Put new people in power, write new laws, erase old ones, build cities out of nothingness - but the wars remain, the underlying conflicts are unaffected. Only power shifts the scales, and people build power only when they come together. When they find in each other the strength to stop being afraid ~ Sam J. Miller

I'd rather be poor and happy than rich and alone. ~ Lady Gaga

I am never rich in money, and I am never meanly poor. ~ Henry David Thoreau

The best thing a man can do for his culture when he is rich is to endeavor to carry out those schemes which he entertained when he was poor. ~ Henry David Thoreau

No matter how rich or poor you might feel, right now is the time to be generous. ~ Andy Stanley

When I was sworn in as a judge of the court of appeals, I took an oath. I put my hand on the Bible and I swore that I would administer justice without respect to persons, that I would do equal right to the poor and to the rich, and that I would carry out my duties under the Constitution and the laws of the United States. ~ Samuel Alito

It never ceased to astound me the people who found themselves on the
streets, homeless, abused. A fucked up life was not discriminatory. Young, old, rich, poor, plain or beautiful, bad shit could happen to anyone. I hated that my world was full of women who had been harmed by men. ~ Kirsty Dallas

The eighties was an era when many companies were asset rich and cash poor. ~ Nicola Horlick

If every man took only what was sufficient for his needs, leaving the rest to those in want, there would be no rich and no poor. ~ Saint Basil

The chasm between rich and poor is becoming larger, and I think it's interesting terrain to talk about and expose. ~ Natasha Leggero

Believe in poverty and you will be poor.
Believe in wealth and you will be rich.
Believe in love and you will have love.
Believe in health and you will be healthy. ~ Napoleon Hill

I had a very down-to-earth product, my wrap dress, which was really a uniform. It was just a simple little cotton-jersey dress that everybody loved and everybody wore. That one dress sold about 3 or 4 million. I would see 20, 30 dresses walking down one block. All sorts of different women. It felt very good. Young and old, and fat and thin, and poor and rich. ~ Diane Von Furstenberg

The data says that with the poor, a little money can buy a lot of happiness. If you're rich, a lot of money can buy you a little more happiness. But in both cases, money does it. ~ Daniel Gilbert

Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich. ~ Naomi Klein

Churches become poor if they become rich and care not for the poor. ~ Lester Roloff

Rich countries have been sending aid to poor countries for the last 60 years. And, by and large, this has failed. ~ Iqbal Quadir

Memory is a mans real possession....in nothing else is he rich....in nothing else is he poor. ~ Alexander Smith

Poor people are as much in danger from an inordinate desire towards the wealth of the world as rich from an inordinate delight in it. ~ Matthew Henry

Work of all kinds is got from poor women, at prices that will not keep soul and body together, and then the articles thus made aresold for prices that give monstrous prices to the capitalist, who thus grows rich on the hard labor of our sex. ~ Catharine Beecher

I have been rich and I have been poor. I know which one I prefer. ~ Michael Caine

A miser grows rich by seeming poor; an extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich. ~ William Shenstone

It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere. ~ Edmund Burke

You have to be very rich or very poor to live without a trade. ~ Albert Camus

I have said that Texas is a state of mind, but I think it is more than that. It is a mystique closely approximating a religion. And this is true to the extent that people either passionately love Texas or passionately hate it and, as in other religions, few people dare to inspect it for fear of losing their bearings in mystery or paradox. But I think there will be little quarrel with my feeling that Texas is one thing. For all its enormous range of space, climate, and physical appearance, and for all the internal squabbles, contentions, and strivings, Texas has a tight cohesiveness perhaps stronger than any other section of America. Rich, poor, Panhandle, Gulf, city, country, Texas is the obsession, the proper study, and the passionate possession of all Texans. ~ John Steinbeck

Talk is cheap. Learn to listen with your eyes. Actions do speak louder than words. Watch what a person does more than what he says. ~ Robert Kiyosaki

The function of law and theology are the same: to keep the poor from taking back by violence what the rich have stolen by cunning. ~ Robert Anton Wilson

Conservatives want to make the poor rich, while liberals want to make the rich poor. ~ Mark W. Smith

Italy is divided between us and them, rich and poor, north and south, young and old, employed and unemployed. ~ Romano Prodi

Anyone who's been poor and gets rich is stalked by guilt and fear. Guilt because you know it isn't fair, that life hasn't changed for everyone ~ Russell Brand

Where we come from does not determine who we can become. What we look like places no limits on what we can achieve. We should all have the right to express ourselves, all have the right to be heard, all have the right to be what we can be: To reach for the sky and touch the stars. No matter who we are, no matter whether we are man or woman, or rich or poor:
My voice, my right. My voice counts. ~ Desmond Tutu

It is a curious phenomena that God has made the hearts of the poor, rich and those of the rich, poor. ~ Vinoba Bhave

Things come to the poor that can't get in at the door of the rich. Their money somehow blocks it up. It is a great privilege to be poor
one that no man covets, and brat a very few have sought to retain, but one that yet many have learned to prize. ~ George MacDonald

The poor are the only consistent altruists; they sell all they have and give it to the rich. ~ Holbrook Jackson

I never met a rich man who was happy, but I have only very occasionally met a poor man who did not want to become a rich man. ~ Malcolm Muggeridge

Khaddar delivers the poor from the bonds of the rich and creates a moral and spiritual bond between the classes and the masses. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

Poor man wanna be rich, rich man wanna be king, and a king ain't satisfied until he rules everything. ~ Bruce Springsteen

When the idle poor become the idle rich, you'll never know just who is who, or which is which. ~ E.Y. Harburg

The rich man who gives to the poor does not bestow alms but pays a debt. ~ Ambrose

He who accepts his poverty unhurt I'd say is rich although he lacked a shirt. But truly poor are they who whine and fret and covet what they cannot hope to get. ~ Geoffrey Chaucer

Poor people know poor people, and rich people know rich people. It is one of the few things La Rochefoucauld did not say, but then La Rochefoucauld never lived in the Bronx. ~ Moss Hart

We don't actually have rich and poor together instead we have a family. What does it mean? If you have resources, you hold them with open hands. The mark of the early church was that they began sharing and it said there were no needy persons among them. They ended poverty as they created this new loving community. ~ Shane Claiborne

It is easier to ask of the poor than of the rich. ~ Anton Chekhov

And for that they were rich,/And robbed the poor; and for that they were strong,/And scourged the weak; and for that they made laws/Which turned the sweat of labor's brow to blood! - /For these their sins the nations cast them out. ~ Henry Taylor

In chess the most unbelievable thing for me is that it's a game for everybody: rich, poor, girl, boy, old, young. It's a fantastic game which can unite people and generations! It's a language which you'll find people "speak" in every country. If you reach a certain level you find a very rich world! Art, sport, logic, psychology, a battlefield, imagination, creativity not only in practical games but don't forget either how amazing a feeling it is to compose a study, for example (unfortunately that's not appreciated these days but it's a fantastic part of chess!). ~ Judit Polgar

There are two forms of disappointment that interest me: religious and political disappointment. Religious disappointment flows from the realization that religious belief is not an option for us. Political disappointment flows from the fact that there is injustice - that we live in a world that is radically unjust and violent, where might seems to equal right, where the poor are exploited by the rich, etc. ~ Simon Critchley

Start small and dream big. ~ Robert Kiyosaki

When asked what was the proper time for supper: If you are a rich man, whenever you please; and if you are a poor man, whenever you can. ~ Diogenes

The rich man, when contributing to a permanent plan for the education of the poor, ought to reflect that he is providing for that of his own descendants; and the poor man who concurs in a provision for those who are not poor that at no distant day it may be enjoyed by descendants from himself. It does not require a long life to witness these vicissitudes of fortune. ~ James Madison

The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture. ~ Plautus

It is more difficult to fight poverty in a rich country than in a poor one. ~ Mother Teresa

When you come to the boundaries of what you know, it is time to make some mistakes. ~ Robert Kiyosaki

Poor and free rather than rich and enslaved. Of course, men want to be both rich and free, and this is what leads them at times to be poor and enslaved. ~ Albert Camus

To this must be added that the hiring of labor and the conduct of trade are concentrated in the hands of comparatively few; so that a small number of very rich men have been able to lay upon the teeming masses of the laboring poor a yoke little better than that of slavery itself. ~ Pope Leo XIII

To the world I may seem very poor, walking penniless and wearing or carrying in my pockets my only material possessions, but I am really very rich in blessings which no amount of money could buy - health and happiness and inner peace. ~ Peace Pilgrim

Pierre Trudeau dreamed of a society that afforded all of its citizens an equal opportunity to succeed in life
whatever their background or beliefs, whether rich or poor, ~ Jean Chretien

The U.S. should stop garrisoning the globe, subsidizing rich friends, and reconstructing poor enemies. Instead, it's about time Washington focused on defending America and its people. ~ Doug Bandow