Being Rich Quotes

Interesting thing about being rich is once you pay your taxes, you're still rich.

I don't mean I'd mind being rich and famous. That's very much on my schedule, and someday I'll try to get around to it; but if it happens, I'd like to have my ego tagging along. I want to still be me when I wake up one fine morning and have breakfast at Tiffany's.

I always want to say to people who want to be rich and famous: 'try being rich first'. See if that doesn't cover most of it. There's not much downside to being rich, other than paying taxes and having your relatives ask you for money. But when you become famous, you end up with a 24-hour job.

Celebrity doesn't have anything to do with art or craft. It's about being rich and thinking that you're better than everybody else.

I suppose that the main benefit of being rich (over just being independent) is to be able to despise rich people (a good concentration of whom you find in glitzy ski resorts) without any sour grapes. It is even sweeter when these farts don't know that you are richer than they are.

The rich invest their money and spend what is left; the poor spend their money and invest what is left.

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

A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.

The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.

Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.

Your future is created by what you do today, not tomorrow.

Too many people are too lazy to think. Instead of learning something new, they think the same thought day in day out.

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.

Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs.

If you want to be rich, simply serve more people.

A mistake is a signal that it is time to learn something new, something you didn't know before.

Sometimes, what is right for you at the beginning of your life is not the right thing for you at the end of your life.

To be a successful business owner and investor, you have to be emotionally neutral to winning and losing. Winning and losing are just part of the game.

It is easy to stay the same but it is not easy to change. Most people choose to stay the same all their lives.

The only difference between a RICH person and a POOR person is how they use their time.

The ability to sell is the number one skill in business. If you cannot sell, don't bother thinking about becoming a business owner.

There are no mistakes in life, just learning opportunities.

When you are forced to think, you expand your mental capacity. When you expand your mental capacity, your wealth increases.

Inside each of us is a David and a Goliath.

People without financial knowledge, who take advice from financial experts are like lemmings simply following their leader. They race for the cliff and leap into the ocean of financial uncertainty, hoping to swim to the other side.

When you come to the boundaries of what you know, it is time to make some mistakes.

The richest people in the world build networks; everyone else is trained to look for work.

One of the most stupid things to do is to pretend you are smart. When you pretend to be smart, you are at the height of stupidity.

Sight is what you see with your eyes, vision is what you see with your mind.

The philosophy of the rich and the poor is this: the rich invest their money and spend what is left. The poor spend their money and invest what is left.

The most life destroying word of all is the word tomorrow.

Success is a poor teacher. We learn the most about ourselves when we fail, so don't be afraid of failing. Failing is part of the process of success. You cannot have success without failure.

In today's rapidly changing world, the people who are not taking risk are the risk takers.

To get rich, you have to be making money while you're asleep.

No man is rich enough to buy back his past.

Don't you know that a man being rich is like a girl being pretty? You wouldn't marry a girl just because she's pretty, but my goodness, doesn't it help?

People think that being famous is just about having your picture taken all the time and being rich rich rich, and you know what?... They're absolutely right.

We reward people a lot for being rich, for being famous, for being cute, for being thin... one of the values I think we need to instill in our country, in our children, is a sense of 'usefulness', in other words, are we useful, are we making other peoples' lives a little bit better?

There's always an element of self delusion among people who believe they ought to be President. There's an underestimation of your opponent and an overestimation of your own abilities. This is compatible with being rich and powerful, the idea that we were blessed by God because we deserve to be blessed.

Well, whiles I am a beggar, I will rail, And say there is no sin but to be rich; And being rich, my virtue then shall be To say there is no vice but beggary

Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.

You know, Saudi Arabia has a lot of poverty also. Regardless about what you hear about the viceroy and people being rich, et cetera.

Americans have so far put up with inequality because they felt they could change their status. They didn't mind others being rich, as long as they had a path to move up as well. The American Dream is all about social mobility in a sense - the idea that anyone can make it.

My thoughts were to become a dentist when I first went to Albany State. I didn't know where I would end up, but I knew I'd be happy, and I knew I would have a nice life. That was always my goal, to have a nice, happy life. That's, to me, being rich.

Starting a business is like jumping out of an airplane without a parachute. In mid air, the entrepreneur begins building a parachute and hopes it opens before hitting the ground.

Being rich isn't about money. Being rich is a state of mind. Some of us, no matter how much money we have, will never be free enough to take time to stop and eat the heart of the watermelon. And some of us will be rich without ever being more than a paycheck ahead of the game.

I don't have any expectations as an actor and being rich and famous is not my driving force.

The third level of wanting is "I commit to being rich." The definition of the word commit is to "devote oneself unreservedly." This means holding absolutely nothing back; giving 100 percent of everything you've got to achieving wealth. It means being willing to do whatever it takes for as long as it takes. This is the warrior's way. No excuses, no ifs, no butts, no maybes-and failure isn't an option. The warrior's way is simple: "I will be rich or I will die trying."

To you, being rich might mean owning a goat farm in South Carolina. For your best friend, it might mean being able to start her own business selling wine over the Internet. Whatever the case, youre probably not motivated by the money itself, but by what the money could let you be and do.

Being rich and famous has never been my goal at all. I love to act and I want to be able to do really great parts.