The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or "get rich" in business by being a conformist.
J. Paul Getty

If you can actually count your money, then you're not a rich man.
J. Paul Getty

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

I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.
Gertrude Stein

I've been rich and I've been poor. It's better to be rich.
Gertrude Stein

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
Edmund Burke

Let architects sing of aesthetics that bring Rich clients in hordes to their knees; Just give me a home, in a great circle dome Where stresses and strains are at ease.
R. Buckminster Fuller

But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.
Alexander Pope

Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor.
Alexander Pope

The poor wish to be rich, the rich wish to be happy, the single wish to be married, and the married wish to be dead.
Ann Landers

Back in the thirties we were told we must collectivize the nation because the people were so poor. Now we are told we must collectivize the nation because the people are so rich.
William F. Buckley, Jr.

I had a couple of million dollars' worth of... stock once. And now it's not worth much more than wallpaper. I guess I just wasn't born to be rich.
Norman Rockwell

About the only difference between the poor and the rich, is this, the poor suffer misery, while the rich have to enjoy it.
Josh Billings

I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.
Woodrow Wilson

If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals.
Susan B. Anthony

Planning ahead is a measure of class. The rich and even the middle class plan for future generations, but the poor can plan ahead only a few weeks or days.
Gloria Steinem

Asia is rich in people, rich in culture and rich in resources. It is also rich in trouble.
Hubert H. Humphrey

The American people are sheep. They're comfortable, rich, working. It's like the Romans, they're happy with bread and their spectator sports. The Super Bowl means more to them than any right.
Jack Kevorkian

By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.
Democritus