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Getting Rich Quotes

I think it's real important to show style now. The majority of style right now is to act like you don't have style at all, so most companies are getting rich off clothes that look torn, clothes that look worn.
- Andre Benjamin

You're only poor if you give up. The most important thing is that you did something. Most people only talk and dream of getting rich. You've done something.
- Robert Kiyosaki

There is a movement in club football, which I don't necessarily consider a prime example of solidarity, because it leads us to conclude the rich are getting richer and they are using everything in the market to create an exodus from Africa.
- Sepp Blatter

I will tell you the secret to getting rich on Wall Street. You try to be greedy when others are fearful. And you try to be fearful when others are greedy.
- Warren Buffett

What answer had your lecturer in Moscow to make to the question why he was forging notes? 'Everybody is getting rich one way or another, so I want to make haste to get rich too.' I don't remember the exact words, but the upshot was that he wants money for nothing, without waiting or working! We've grown used to having everything ready-made, to walking on crutches, to having our food chewed for us. Then the great hour struck, and every man showed himself in his true colours.
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky

For generations, Americans who aren't rich have been generous and admiring of their wealthy compatriots - want a country where people who work hard can succeed, where the same rules apply to everyone. They expect to have their own shot at getting rich. But increasingly, they are seeing that the game is rigged.
- Dee Dee Myers

Numbers of men are getting richer and greater numbers are getting poorer. Alas, both classes have higher expectations these days. In Short, sir, there has been a leap in bribes.
- Barry Unsworth

What's the subject of life - to get rich? All of those fellows out there getting rich could be dancing around the real subject of life.
- Paul A Volcker

There is no point in getting rich if we lose our soul along the way.
- Farahad Zama

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