George Bernard Shaw: The Rich Are Useless

"What is the matter with the poor is poverty; what is the matter with the rich is uselessness." -- George Bernard Shaw

Ability to Forget Poverty Based on Wealth or Income

"The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it." -- Gilbert Keith Chesterton

William Shakespeare on Riches & Contentment

"Poor and content is rich, and rich enough." -- William Shakespeare

Control Wealth Rather Than Being Controlled by Wealth

"If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed." -- Edmund Burke

Better to Enrich Childrens Minds Than Bankbooks

“Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.” -- Epictetus

Rich Avoiding Taxes: George W. Bush Tax Quote

"The rich hire lawyers and accountants for a reason - to pass the tax bill on to you." -- George W. Bush

Rich People Can't Share Equally, Even With Each Other

"If all the rich people in the world divided up their money among themselves, there wouldn't be enough to go around."
-- Christina Stead

Hard Work Not Revered by Rich or They'd Hoard It Too

"If hard work were such a wonderful thing, surely the rich would have kept it all to themselves." -- Lane Kirkland

Rita Rudner: Money & Disrespect for Humanity

"Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be." -- Rita Rudner

Better To Be Rich Than Poor Money Quote

"I've been rich and I've been poor: Rich is better." -- Sophie Tucker

Alan Alda: Riches Bring Happiness, Fame Just Icing

"It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy, it's only necessary to be rich." -- Alan Alda

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

Abraham Lincoln on Balancing Money & Spirituality

"This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor." -- Abraham Lincoln

What is a Rich Man if You Take Away His Money?

"A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money." -- W.C. Fields

What You Are Says You Are Rich, Not What You Have

"He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has." -- Henry Ward Beecher

Rich Man Can Afford to Leave Things Alone

"A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone." -- Henry David Thoreau

Never Have So Many Rich People Felt Themselves So Poor

"Never in the history of the world have so many people been so rich; never in the history of the world have so many of those same people felt themselves so poor." -- Lewis H. Lapham

Better to Live Richly than to Die Rich

"Think it more satisfactory to live richly than die rich." -- Sir Thomas Browne

Do You Want to Be Rich or Have Money?

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

Rich Enough to Buy Back Past?

"No man is rich enough to buy back his past." -– Oscar Wilde

For Poor Men To Know How Rich Men Work

"There are two things needed in these days: first, for rich men to find out how poor men live; and second, for poor men to know how rich men work." -- E. Atkinson

Possible to Be Rich without Behaving Badly?

"To suppose as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave as the rich behave, is like supposing that we could drink all day and stay sober." -- Logan Pearsall Smith