Rich People Quotes
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“The money you make is a symbol of the value you create.”
― Wealth for All: Living a Life of Success at the Edge of Your Ability
― Wealth for All: Living a Life of Success at the Edge of Your Ability
“People who advocate simplicity have money in the bank; the money came first, not the simplicity.”
― The Gum Thief
― The Gum Thief
“There's always something to do if you don't have to work or consider the cost. It's no real fun but the rich don't know that. They never had any. They never want anything very hard except maybe somebody else's wife and that's a pretty pale desire compared with the way a plumber's wife wants new curtains for the living room.”
― The Long Goodbye
― The Long Goodbye
“Everywhere the weak execrate the powerful, before whom they cringe; and the powerful beat them like sheep whose wool and flesh they sell.”
― Candide
― Candide
“After having everything, a rich man seeks applause and reverence, for there is guilt in his mind. The guilt of having everything in this world.”
― The Influencer: Speed Must Have a Limit
― The Influencer: Speed Must Have a Limit
“Remembrance of things past is just for the rich. For the poor it only marks the faint traces on the path to death.”
― The First Man
― The First Man
“[W]hat is always overlooked is that although the poor want to be rich, it does not follow that they either like the rich or that they in any way want to emulate their characters which, in fact, they despise. Both the poor and the rich have always found precisely the same grounds on which to complain about each other. Each feels the other has no manners, is disloyal, corrupt, insensitive - and has never put in an honest day's work in its life.”
― Elvis and Gladys
― Elvis and Gladys
“Rich people don’t have to have a life-and-death relationship with the truth and its questions; they can ignore the truth and still thrive materially. I am not surprised many of them understand literature only as an ornament. Life is an ornament to them, relationships are ornaments, their 'work' is but a flimsy, pretty ornament meant to momentarily thrill and capture attention.”
― Crossing Borders: Personal Essays
― Crossing Borders: Personal Essays
“The Vikings thought they were big shots because they had boats. You know how obnoxious people get when they own a boat. They always want to go on the boat. "We're taking the boat out this weekend. It's supposed to be beautiful. Why don't you come? You never come. You're always working. You know how many people wish they would get invited to come on the boat? And you turn it down.”
― The Coloring Book: A Comedian Solves Race Relations in America
― The Coloring Book: A Comedian Solves Race Relations in America
“Jo, they have a baby grand piano, but no one in the family plays. They have shelves of books they've never read, and the tension between the couples was so thick it nearly choked us."
"Let me tell you something 'bout those rich Uptown folk," said Cokie. "They got everything that money can buy, their bank accounts are fat, but they ain't happy. They ain't ever gone be happy. You know why? They soul broke. And money can't fix that, no sir. My friend Bix was poor. Lord, he had to blow that trumpet ten hours a day just to put a little taste in the pot. Died poor, too. You saw him, Jo, with that plate on his chest. But that man wasn't soul broke.”
― Out of the Easy
"Let me tell you something 'bout those rich Uptown folk," said Cokie. "They got everything that money can buy, their bank accounts are fat, but they ain't happy. They ain't ever gone be happy. You know why? They soul broke. And money can't fix that, no sir. My friend Bix was poor. Lord, he had to blow that trumpet ten hours a day just to put a little taste in the pot. Died poor, too. You saw him, Jo, with that plate on his chest. But that man wasn't soul broke.”
― Out of the Easy
“She had a new bracelet on, stacked with emeralds brighter than her eyes. I hate rich people.”
― The Icarus Girl
― The Icarus Girl
“The rich are obscure to us, finding ways to be unhappy when all the normal causes of unhappiness are removed.”
― Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights
― Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights
“I am a “conspiracy theorist.” I believe men and women of wealth and power conspire.
If you don’t think so, then you are what is called “an idiot.”
If you believe stuff but fear the label, you are what is called “a coward.”
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If you don’t think so, then you are what is called “an idiot.”
If you believe stuff but fear the label, you are what is called “a coward.”
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“Freedom of the press is the freedom of 200 rich people to spread their opinions.
Pressefreiheit ist die Freiheit von zweihundert reichen Leuten, ihre Meinung zu verbreiten.”
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Pressefreiheit ist die Freiheit von zweihundert reichen Leuten, ihre Meinung zu verbreiten.”
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“Many blame philosophers, thinkers and spiritual leaders for never truly setting foot in a factory. These moral critics squander even their tiny salaries on lottery tickets, hoping to get rich and stop working for the rest of their days. However, they consume the accidental win recklessly by saying life is short and meant to be enjoyed.”
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“It was hard not to stare at Jjason's mom, specifically the humongous diamond on her hand. I thought I might go blind.”
― Front Desk
― Front Desk
“It was hard not to stare at Jason's mom, specifically the humongous diamond on her hand. I thought I might go blind.”
― Front Desk
― Front Desk
“It was morbidly fascinating to hear rich people discuss what to do with the rest of us.”
― Delicious Death
― Delicious Death
“The rich don’t have to kill to eat. They “employ” people, as they call it. The rich don’t do evil themselves. They pay. People do all they can to please them, and everybody’s happy. They have beautiful women, the poor have ugly ones. Clothing aside, they’re the product of centuries. Easy to look at, well fed, well washed. After all these years, life can boast no greater accomplishment. It’s no use trying, we slide, we skid, we fall back into the alcohol that preserves the living and the dead, we get nowhere. It’s been proved. After all these centuries of watching our domestic animals coming into the world, laboring and dying before our eyes without anything more unusual ever happening to them either than taking up the same insipid fiasco where so many other animals had left off, we should have caught on. Endless waves of useless beings keep rising from deep down in the ages to die in front of our noses, and yet here we stay, hoping for something …”
― Journey to the End of the Night
― Journey to the End of the Night
“The rich won't win. They are pampered blokes. We have daily struggles. They don't even know what struggle is in life. We face adversities on a daily basis. They lead a life of luxury. We have to make choices for our survival. They don't know that they have to make any kind of choices. We have to take care of our families. They don't know what they want. We have to fight on a daily basis to earn our pennies. They squander their money on stupid luxuries. We fight for survival. They give a damn to us and the world.
~ Call me the Professor or Poet or Avijeet or Musafir”
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~ Call me the Professor or Poet or Avijeet or Musafir”
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“She wore her hustle the same as Marilyn wore her femme drag.
Breathy attention, exclamations of interest—false, false—and still so
captivating. The rich want to believe in the hologram. They always want to
believe”
― Still Alive
Breathy attention, exclamations of interest—false, false—and still so
captivating. The rich want to believe in the hologram. They always want to
believe”
― Still Alive
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