Having more does not keep you from wanting more. And if you always want more - to be richer, more beautiful, more well known - you are missing the bigger picture, and I can tell you from experience, happiness will never come
- Mitch Albom
It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.
- Alan Alda
You don't write a novel out of sheer pity any more than you blow a safe out of a vague longing to be rich. A certain ruthlessness and a sense of alienation from society is as essential to creative writing as it is to armed robbery.
- Nelson Algren
Il bel far niente means 'the beauty of doing nothing'... [it] has always been a cherished Italian ideal. The beauty of doing nothing is the goal of all your work, the final accomplishment for which you are most highly congratulated. The more exquisitely and delightfully you can do nothing, the higher your life's achievement. You don't necessarily need to be rich in order to experience this, either.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
It's awful to be rich and mind-boggingly handsome and have women fawn over you. My heart bleeds for you. Poor dear, how do you manage?
- Ilona Andrews
You don't have to be rich and famous. You just have to be an ordinary person, doing extraordinary things. I'd like more people to know that it's there. Women's achievements still aren't recognised enough in many areas.
- Joan Armatrading
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
I'd like to be rich. I'd like a lot of money to put into my physicals and to buy food for all my friends.
- Syd Barrett
After all, it was nice to be loved than to be rich and admired and famous.
- L M Montgomery
Be very clear as to what your dream is. Nowadays it is fairly certain that 90 percent of all actors really just want to be rich and famous as the solution to all that ails.
- Dirk Benedict
As a young kid, I really wanted to be rich.
- Robert Kiyosaki
Today I bought two lottery tickets, because I had a feeling that it would be now or never - they were both blanks. So I am not going to be rich after all. Nothing at all to be done about it.
- Eva Braun
I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute.
- Warren Buffett
Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
He was finding it ruinously expensive to be rich.
- Robert A Heinlein
To support his austerely upholstered nest and its rabble staff he put forth minimum effort for maximum return simply because it was easier to be rich than to be poor - Harshaw merely wished to live exactly as he liked, doing whatever he thought was best for him.
- Robert A Heinlein
To be poor without murmuring is difficult. To be rich without being proud is easy.
- Confucius
So then you have to say to yourself: Do I want to be rich, or do I want to do good work?
- Jackie Cooper
I will stand up for what I believe and for what I have always believed: Every person has a right to be rich in this country and I want to help them get there.
- Jim Cramer
It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.
- Edgar Allan Poe
I am certain that most composers today would consider today's music to be rich, not to say confusing, in its enormous diversity of styles, technical procedures, and systems of esthetics.
- George Crumb
The three saddest things are the ill wanting to be well, the poor wanting to be rich, and the constant traveler saying 'anywhere but here'.
- E E Cummings
My goal was just to work regularly. I didn't ever expect to be rich or famous. I wanted to be a working character actor.
- Harrison Ford
[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.
- Elaine Dundy
But the fact is, most people are not going to be rich someday.
- Roger Ebert
It is a good thing to be rich and strong, but it is a better thing to be loved.
- Euripides
Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.
- Euripides
Money makes life easier but I don't want to be rich, not at all.
- Cathy Freeman
I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love any longer. They don't teach you how to know what's going on in someone else's mind. They don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying. They don't teach you anything worth knowing.
- Neil Gaiman
ONE AFTERNOON DURING THAT FINAL SPRING, AFTER SHE HAD TURNED THIRTY AURA TURNED TO ME FROM HER DESK WHILE I LAY ON THE BED READING, AND SHE SAID, 'WE HAVE EVERYTHING WE NEED TO BE HAPPY. WE DONT HAVE TO BE RICH. WE CAN GET JOBS IN THE UNIVERSITIES IF WE NEED THEM. WE HAVE OUR BOOKS, OUR READING, OUR WRITING, AND WE HAVE EACH OTHER, FRANK. WE DONT NEED MORE TO BE HAPPY, WE ARE SO LUCKY. DO YOU KNOW HOW LUCKY WE ARE?
- Francisco Goldman
Being rich is an obstacle to loving. When you are rich, you want to continue to be rich, and so you end up devoting all your time, all your energy, in your daily life to stay rich.
- Nhat Hanh
I just want to be rich and famous.
- Ian Hart
You've got to be rich to have a swing like that.
- Bob Hope
One of the reasons inequality gets so deep in this country is that everyone wants to be rich. That's the American ideal. Poor people don't like talking about poverty because even though they might live in the projects surrounded by other poor people and have, like, ten dollars in the bank, they don't like to think of themselves as poor.
- Jayz
As far as how my mom might view me, I can imagine her saying something like this to me: "You may be ugly, son, but that doesn't mean you can't be rich. In fact, it kind of means you have to be rich. At least if you don't want to be asexual and alone your whole life."
- Jarod Kintz
It's better to have a rich soul than to be rich.
- Olga Korbut
The poor wish to be rich, the rich wish to be happy, the single wish to be married, and the married wish to be dead.
- Ann Landers
..in the last few years American poetry has come out of a poetry of complaint, not praising, and it was initially maybe rich. And it can continue to be rich if we remember that we shouldn't write out of complaint. We should write out of grief, but not grievance. Grief is rich, ecstatic. But grievance is not -- it's a complaint, it's whining.
- Li Young Lee
No, my son, do not aspire for wealth and labor not only to be rich. Strive instead for happiness, to be loved and to love, and most important to acquire peace of mind and serenity.
- Og Mandino
I never set out to be rich and famous. I wanted to follow my own path.
- Matthew Modine
Tis a sort of duty to be rich, that it may be in one's power to do good, riches being another word for power.
- Mary Wortley Montagu
Listen friends, you have to face the truth: You are never going to be rich... The system is rigged in favor of the few, and your name is not among them, not now and not ever.
- Michael Moore
A servant of God has but one Master. It ill becomes the servant to seek to be rich, and great, and honored in that world where his Lord was poor, and mean, and despised.
- George Muller
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.
- Bill Murray
I don't think it's a good attitude in your life to feel that you have to be rich to have self-esteem.
- Tom Petty
I have always found that it is far more convenient to be rich rather than to be poor.
- Amanda Quick
I had a couple of million dollars' worth of... stock once. And now it's not worth much more than wallpaper. I guess I just wasn't born to be rich.
- Norman Rockwell
Take someone who doesn't keep score,
who's not looking to be richer, or afraid of losing,
who has not the slightest interest even
in his own personality: he's free.
- Rumi
In always wanting to be comfortable, you become lazy.
In always wanting perfection, you become angry.
In always wanting to be rich, you become greedy.
- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
I've been rich and I've been poor. It's better to be rich.
- Gertrude Stein
My author role model is Kurata Misako. I want to be rich enough to drive from room to room in my home but also down to earth enough to let squirrels live in my hair.
- Christy Leigh Stewart
Stealing to eat ain't criminalstealing to be rich is.
- Andrew Vachss
To be rich nowadays merely means to possess a large number of poor objects.
- Raoul Vaneigem
He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.
- Leonardo Da Vinci
Some men want to win a gold medal, some want a family, some want to be rich, some want to be free, some want to kill other men, and some men want to do the right thing. Me, I only want you.
- Aleksandr Voinov
There's only one good reason to be a writer-we can't help it! We'd all like to be rich, famous and successful, but if those are our goals, we're off on a wrong foot...I just wanted to earn enough money so I could work at home on my writing.
- Phyllis A Whitney
Poverty is not socialism. To be rich is glorious.
- Deng Xiaoping
- Mitch Albom
It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.
- Alan Alda
You don't write a novel out of sheer pity any more than you blow a safe out of a vague longing to be rich. A certain ruthlessness and a sense of alienation from society is as essential to creative writing as it is to armed robbery.
- Nelson Algren
Il bel far niente means 'the beauty of doing nothing'... [it] has always been a cherished Italian ideal. The beauty of doing nothing is the goal of all your work, the final accomplishment for which you are most highly congratulated. The more exquisitely and delightfully you can do nothing, the higher your life's achievement. You don't necessarily need to be rich in order to experience this, either.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
It's awful to be rich and mind-boggingly handsome and have women fawn over you. My heart bleeds for you. Poor dear, how do you manage?
- Ilona Andrews
You don't have to be rich and famous. You just have to be an ordinary person, doing extraordinary things. I'd like more people to know that it's there. Women's achievements still aren't recognised enough in many areas.
- Joan Armatrading
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
I'd like to be rich. I'd like a lot of money to put into my physicals and to buy food for all my friends.
- Syd Barrett
After all, it was nice to be loved than to be rich and admired and famous.
- L M Montgomery
Be very clear as to what your dream is. Nowadays it is fairly certain that 90 percent of all actors really just want to be rich and famous as the solution to all that ails.
- Dirk Benedict
As a young kid, I really wanted to be rich.
- Robert Kiyosaki
Today I bought two lottery tickets, because I had a feeling that it would be now or never - they were both blanks. So I am not going to be rich after all. Nothing at all to be done about it.
- Eva Braun
I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute.
- Warren Buffett
Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
He was finding it ruinously expensive to be rich.
- Robert A Heinlein
To support his austerely upholstered nest and its rabble staff he put forth minimum effort for maximum return simply because it was easier to be rich than to be poor - Harshaw merely wished to live exactly as he liked, doing whatever he thought was best for him.
- Robert A Heinlein
To be poor without murmuring is difficult. To be rich without being proud is easy.
- Confucius
So then you have to say to yourself: Do I want to be rich, or do I want to do good work?
- Jackie Cooper
I will stand up for what I believe and for what I have always believed: Every person has a right to be rich in this country and I want to help them get there.
- Jim Cramer
It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.
- Edgar Allan Poe
I am certain that most composers today would consider today's music to be rich, not to say confusing, in its enormous diversity of styles, technical procedures, and systems of esthetics.
- George Crumb
The three saddest things are the ill wanting to be well, the poor wanting to be rich, and the constant traveler saying 'anywhere but here'.
- E E Cummings
My goal was just to work regularly. I didn't ever expect to be rich or famous. I wanted to be a working character actor.
- Harrison Ford
[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.
- Elaine Dundy
But the fact is, most people are not going to be rich someday.
- Roger Ebert
It is a good thing to be rich and strong, but it is a better thing to be loved.
- Euripides
Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.
- Euripides
Money makes life easier but I don't want to be rich, not at all.
- Cathy Freeman
I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love any longer. They don't teach you how to know what's going on in someone else's mind. They don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying. They don't teach you anything worth knowing.
- Neil Gaiman
ONE AFTERNOON DURING THAT FINAL SPRING, AFTER SHE HAD TURNED THIRTY AURA TURNED TO ME FROM HER DESK WHILE I LAY ON THE BED READING, AND SHE SAID, 'WE HAVE EVERYTHING WE NEED TO BE HAPPY. WE DONT HAVE TO BE RICH. WE CAN GET JOBS IN THE UNIVERSITIES IF WE NEED THEM. WE HAVE OUR BOOKS, OUR READING, OUR WRITING, AND WE HAVE EACH OTHER, FRANK. WE DONT NEED MORE TO BE HAPPY, WE ARE SO LUCKY. DO YOU KNOW HOW LUCKY WE ARE?
- Francisco Goldman
Being rich is an obstacle to loving. When you are rich, you want to continue to be rich, and so you end up devoting all your time, all your energy, in your daily life to stay rich.
- Nhat Hanh
I just want to be rich and famous.
- Ian Hart
You've got to be rich to have a swing like that.
- Bob Hope
One of the reasons inequality gets so deep in this country is that everyone wants to be rich. That's the American ideal. Poor people don't like talking about poverty because even though they might live in the projects surrounded by other poor people and have, like, ten dollars in the bank, they don't like to think of themselves as poor.
- Jayz
As far as how my mom might view me, I can imagine her saying something like this to me: "You may be ugly, son, but that doesn't mean you can't be rich. In fact, it kind of means you have to be rich. At least if you don't want to be asexual and alone your whole life."
- Jarod Kintz
It's better to have a rich soul than to be rich.
- Olga Korbut
The poor wish to be rich, the rich wish to be happy, the single wish to be married, and the married wish to be dead.
- Ann Landers
..in the last few years American poetry has come out of a poetry of complaint, not praising, and it was initially maybe rich. And it can continue to be rich if we remember that we shouldn't write out of complaint. We should write out of grief, but not grievance. Grief is rich, ecstatic. But grievance is not -- it's a complaint, it's whining.
- Li Young Lee
No, my son, do not aspire for wealth and labor not only to be rich. Strive instead for happiness, to be loved and to love, and most important to acquire peace of mind and serenity.
- Og Mandino
I never set out to be rich and famous. I wanted to follow my own path.
- Matthew Modine
Tis a sort of duty to be rich, that it may be in one's power to do good, riches being another word for power.
- Mary Wortley Montagu
Listen friends, you have to face the truth: You are never going to be rich... The system is rigged in favor of the few, and your name is not among them, not now and not ever.
- Michael Moore
A servant of God has but one Master. It ill becomes the servant to seek to be rich, and great, and honored in that world where his Lord was poor, and mean, and despised.
- George Muller
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.
- Bill Murray
I don't think it's a good attitude in your life to feel that you have to be rich to have self-esteem.
- Tom Petty
I have always found that it is far more convenient to be rich rather than to be poor.
- Amanda Quick
I had a couple of million dollars' worth of... stock once. And now it's not worth much more than wallpaper. I guess I just wasn't born to be rich.
- Norman Rockwell
Take someone who doesn't keep score,
who's not looking to be richer, or afraid of losing,
who has not the slightest interest even
in his own personality: he's free.
- Rumi
In always wanting to be comfortable, you become lazy.
In always wanting perfection, you become angry.
In always wanting to be rich, you become greedy.
- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
I've been rich and I've been poor. It's better to be rich.
- Gertrude Stein
My author role model is Kurata Misako. I want to be rich enough to drive from room to room in my home but also down to earth enough to let squirrels live in my hair.
- Christy Leigh Stewart
Stealing to eat ain't criminalstealing to be rich is.
- Andrew Vachss
To be rich nowadays merely means to possess a large number of poor objects.
- Raoul Vaneigem
He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.
- Leonardo Da Vinci
Some men want to win a gold medal, some want a family, some want to be rich, some want to be free, some want to kill other men, and some men want to do the right thing. Me, I only want you.
- Aleksandr Voinov
There's only one good reason to be a writer-we can't help it! We'd all like to be rich, famous and successful, but if those are our goals, we're off on a wrong foot...I just wanted to earn enough money so I could work at home on my writing.
- Phyllis A Whitney
Poverty is not socialism. To be rich is glorious.
- Deng Xiaoping