Wealthy Quotes

The laws are stacked for the wealthy.
Jesse Jackson

Money is not a motivating factor. Money doesn't thrill me or make me play better because there are benefits to being wealthy. I'm just happy with a ball at my feet. My motivation comes from playing the game I love. If I wasn't paid to be a professional footballer I would willingly play for nothing.
Lionel Messi

Love, Money, Happy

People hate me because I am a multifaceted, talented, wealthy, internationally famous genius.
Jerry Lewis

Famous, Hate, Genius

The inequalities are greater now than in '92. Some states have equalized per-pupil spending but they set the 'equal level' very low, so that wealthy districts simply raise extra money privately.
Jonathan Kozol

Money, Simply, Level

I'm going to fight until the end. My husband is worth it. He wanted me to have it. He was worth a lot. He was a very, very wealthy man.
Anna Nicole Smith

Husband, End, Fight

The wealthy have never liked to pay for the labor that enriches them. Ever since slavery was eliminated, they have been trying to keep it as close to slavery as they can without violating the slave laws.
Michael Moore

Trying, Keep, Since

Aspiration, it seems, is in danger of becoming the preserve of the wealthy.
Iain Duncan Smith

Seems, Danger, Becoming

Nearly every glamorous, wealthy, successful career woman you might envy now started out as some kind of schlep.
Helen Gurley Brown

Successful, Woman, Envy

I'm a very wealthy man.
Elton John

You aren't wealthy until you have something money can't buy.
Garth Brooks

Money, Until, Buy

I made a small fortune. I made a lot of money and I made a lot of other people wealthy.
Jim Cramer

Money, Made, Small

There are many Saudi women doctors, and there are many wealthy and powerful and well-educated Saudi women who circumvent the restrictions put upon them, quietly or otherwise.
Dave Eggers

Women, Powerful, Put

I think wealthy conservatives are busy investing in profit and job creation and enterprise, and wealthy liberals, many of them either from the media industry themselves or from - they recognize the value of communications and are more ready to put money into a less profitable enterprise, namely the media.
Karl Rove

Money, Job, Busy

I don't hate redheads! The millionaire men - wealthy men - never pick them. Every time I offer them they say no. I could say the most gorgeous redhead in the world and they'll say no, they don't want it. Now if you ask an Irish guy in Ireland, he says 'yes,' because that's indigenous to that country.
Patti Stanger

Time, Men, Hate

Successful men don't date up. They are intimidated by wealthy women unless they are blue bloods. Successful men want to always take care of their women, and that means financially.
Patti Stanger

Women, Men, Successful

We can be poor in spirit, and I don't even consider myself wealthy, which is an interesting thing, it can be here today and gone tomorrow.
Ann Romney

Today, Tomorrow, Poor

While I recognize the great value and importance of prescription drugs and strongly support a continued U.S. focus on pharmaceutical research and development, our nation's seniors cannot be asked to subsidize the drug costs of other wealthy industrialized nations any longer.
Michael K. Simpson

Great, Focus, Cannot

Congress had the opportunity to extend tax relief to working families without increasing the deficit. Instead, we were handed a bill that favors the wealthy and eliminates deductions that benefit the middle class.
Rick Larsen

Working, Congress, Tax

All my life I've been prejudiced against wealthy people.
Ethel Waters

Life, Against, Prejudiced

And before our current legislature adjourns, we intend to become the first state of full and true choice by saying to every low and middle-income Hoosier family, if you think a non-government school is the right one for your child, you're as entitled to that option as any wealthy family; here's a voucher, go sign up.
Mitch Daniels

Family, School, True

Amateurism is the strongest form of discrimination in sports. Because it discriminates against the underprivileged, it discriminates against the poor. If we want sports to go back to the wealthy, let's make it amateur again.
Carl Lewis

Sports, Poor, Again

I always wanted to be wealthy. I did.
Carl Lewis

Sometimes people who get wealthy when they are very, very young, it's a curse to them. They don't realize it.
Kato Kaelin

Young, Sometimes, Realize

I don't get it. If you're saying, Tommy Lee, you don't fit the image of the East Coast, social elitist wealthy people who comprise Harvard, the only thing I can say is you have no idea what comprises Harvard.
Tommy Lee Jones

Saying, Idea, Social

There is a danger for Britain as we perceive ourselves, or as we are - less wealthy, facing economic austerity - that we essentially draw back. I think there is a recoil in parts of the country, and in parts of the government actually, from the multilateral system, and I think that's dangerous and wrong.
David Miliband

Government, Country, Wrong

If you go back to the time of J.P. Morgan, the world of high finance was completely wholesale. The prestigious investment banks on Wall Street appealed exclusively to large corporations, governments, and to extremely wealthy individuals.
Ron Chernow

Time, Finance, High

I've gone from being quite wealthy, when I was defending women, to being quite poor defending men.
Warren Farrell

Women, Men, Poor

We weren't wealthy but we definitely weren't poor. We were incredibly rich because there was a wonderful community in Shepherd's Bush, where I grew up. All my friends were into villainy and crime.
Roger Daltrey

Friends, Rich, Poor

Power is not of a man. Wealth does not center in the person of the wealthy. Celebrity is not inherent in any personality. To be celebrated, to be wealthy, to have power requires access to major institutions.
C. Wright Mills

Power, Person, Wealth

The life of the wealthy is one long Sunday.
Georg Buchner

Life, Sunday, Long

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