Rich Quotes

The man who dies rich dies disgraced.

Being the richest man in the cemetery

doesn't matter to me.

Going to bed at night saying

we've done something wonderful,

that's what matters to me.

The most luxurious possession,

the richest treasure anybody has,

is his personal dignity.

We are rich only through what we give,

and poor only through what we refuse.

Riches can all be lost,

but that happiness in your own heart can only be veiled,

and it will bring you happiness again,

as long as you live.

No legacy is so rich as honesty.

The things that will destroy America are

prosperity at any price, peace at any price,

safety first instead of duty first,

the love of soft living, and the get rich quick theory of life.

The rich invest in time,

the poor invest in money.

If past history was all there was to the game,

the richest people would be librarians.

I had no idea that being your authentic,

self could make me as rich as I've become.If I had,

I'd have done it a lot earlier.

Every man is a consumer,

and ought to be a producer.

He is by constitution expensive,

and needs to be rich.

I have always found that mercy bears

richer fruits than strict justice.

Riches don’t make a man rich,

they only make him busier.

Character is always known.

Thefts never enrich;

alms never impoverish;

murder will speak out of stone walls.

Don’t become a philosopher before you become rich.

The general idea of the rich helping

the poor is important.

There is nothing deep down inside us

except what we have put there ourselves

Richard Rorty

It put our energies to sleep and made visionaries of us

dreamers and indolent...

It is good to begin life poor;

it is good to begin life rich

these are wholesome;

but to begin it prospectively rich!

The man who has not experienced it cannot imagine the curse of it.