And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human.
William Gibson

Women desire six things: They want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous, obedient to wife, and lively in bed.
Geoffrey Chaucer

One of the reasons inequality gets so deep in this country is that everyone wants to be rich. That's the American ideal. Poor people don't like talking about poverty because even though they might live in the projects surrounded by other poor people and have, like, ten dollars in the bank, they don't like to think of themselves as poor.
Jay-Z

As kids we didn't complain about being poor; we talked about how rich we were going to be and made moves to get the lifestyle we aspired to by any means we could. And as soon as we had a little money, we were eager to show it.
Jay-Z

The rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized world.
Friedrich Schiller

Traditional investment vehicles such as IRAs, CDs, stocks and bonds do have their place, but for the rich, they are used more as temporary storage facilities rather than life-long homes.
Bo Bennett

There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich.
Marlene Dietrich

Rich is not better.
Nell Carter

Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family called decent.
Thomas Mann

I'm rich, freakin' rich. It's crazy.
Britney Spears

The only thing I like about rich people is their money.
Nancy Astor

As you grow older, your whole life becomes very rich, multifaceted.
Francesca Annis

It is the mind that maketh good of ill, that maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
Edmund Spenser

There is less pressure as a character actor. It generally means that you will be acting for all of your life, which is my intention. It is not my intention to just be a rich and famous person, that would be pretty boring.
Tim Roth

Perhaps they do not recognize themselves, for a rich man is even harder to define than a poor one.
William Graham Sumner

Everybody gets everything handed to them. The rich inherit it. I don't mean just inheritance of money. I mean what people take for granted among the middle and upper classes, which is nepotism, the old-boy network.
Toni Morrison

Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
Oliver Goldsmith

The jests of the rich are ever successful.
Oliver Goldsmith

One thing must be granted to the rich: they are goodnatured.
William Graham Sumner

Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing... you are talking about the Internet, you are talking about cell phones, you are talking about computers. This doesn't affect two-thirds of the people of the world.
Jimmy Carter