That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.
Henry David Thoreau

Like almost everyone who uses e-mail, I receive a ton of spam every day. Much of it offers to help me get out of debt or get rich quick. It would be funny if it weren't so exciting.
Bill Gates

In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.
Aristotle

Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
Napoleon Bonaparte

We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

High achievers spot rich opportunities swiftly, make big decisions quickly and move into action immediately. Follow these principles and you can make your dreams come true.
Robert H. Schuller

He who is contented is rich.
Lao Tzu

There are people who have money and people who are rich.
Coco Chanel

When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.
Eleanor Roosevelt

No man is rich enough to buy back his past.
Oscar Wilde

There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.
Oscar Wilde

Nothing is more important than reconnecting with your bliss. Nothing is as rich. Nothing is more real.
Deepak Chopra

You can get rich making fun of me. I know. I've made lots of money making fun of me.
Glenn Beck

He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.
Leonardo da Vinci

Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.
Jonathan Swift

Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited; and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division; and from the antagonism between poor and rich means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts.
Joseph Stalin

The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.
Karl Marx

You've got to be rich to have a swing like that.
Bob Hope

Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be.
Rita Rudner