Politicians Should be Asked 'What About the 90 Percent?'

"Any politician who starts shouting election-year demagoguery about the rich and the poor should be asked, 'What about the other 90 percent of the people?'" -- Thomas Sowell

When People Can Vote Themselves Money, It's All Over

"When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic." -- Benjamin Franklin

Wretchedness of Being Rich is Living With Rich People

"It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people" -- Logan Pearsall Smith

Capitalists Fleece the People: Abraham Lincoln

"These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people." -- Abraham Lincoln

Value Time Highly: Protect it From Waste by Others

"Time is the most valuable coin in your life. You and you alone will determine how that coin will be spent. Be careful that you don't let other people spend it for you." -- John Dryden

Henry James: People Rich When Reality Meets Imaginings

"I call people rich when they're able to meet the requirements of their imagination." Author Henry James in The Portrait of a Lady

Check Forbes 400 For My Name, Then Go to Work

"Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work." -- Robert Orben

Do You Want to Be Rich or Have Money?

"There are people who have money and people who are rich." -- Geoffrey Chaucer