My goal was just to work regularly. I didn't ever expect to be rich or famous. I wanted to be a working character actor.
Harrison Ford

Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.
Walter Bagehot

Live rich, die poor; never make the mistake of doing it the other way round.
Walter Annenberg

I enjoy working with complicated equipment. A lot of my things started just with a rhythm box, but I feed it through so many things that what comes out sounds very complex and rich.
Brian Eno

Music in itself carries a whole set of messages which are very, very rich and complex, and the words either serve to exclude certain ones or point up certain others.
Brian Eno

Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent.
Nicolas de Chamfort

Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich.
Nicolas de Chamfort

The rich, by unfair combinations, contribute frequently to prolong a season of distress among the poor.
Thomas Malthus

Badges mean nothing in themselves, but they mark a certain achievement and they are a link between the rich and the poor. For when one girl sees a badge on a sister Scout's arm, if that girl has won the same badge, it at once awakens an interest and sympathy between them.
Juliette G. Low

If you aren't rich you should always look useful.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine

The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own.
Theodor Adorno

Riches don't make a man rich, they only make him busier.
Christopher Columbus

Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.
Sholom Aleichem

I would like a man now who is rich, and who can give me a boat - a sailboat. I want to own it and let him pay for it. My first love is the sea and water, not music. Music is second.
Nina Simone

I think the rich will eventually have to cave in too, because the economic situation around the world is not gonna tolerate the United States being on top forever.
Nina Simone

I think the rich are too rich and the poor are too poor. I don't think the black people are going to rise at all; I think most of them are going to die.
Nina Simone

I always want to say to people who want to be rich and famous: 'try being rich first'. See if that doesn't cover most of it. There's not much downside to being rich, other than paying taxes and having your relatives ask you for money. But when you become famous, you end up with a 24-hour job.
Bill Murray

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

You can never be too rich or too thin.
Wallis Simpson

The rich swell up with pride, the poor from hunger.
Sholom Aleichem