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Rich Quotes
On wealth, privilege, and richness beyond money.
Not every quote here is about bank accounts - some describe a college's rich history or a rich jewel of knowledge, while others weigh how wealth and protection are distributed. If money is more your focus, see Money.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's more poor people in this country than there are rich, and I stick up for the poor people.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
Rich kids gave us their old clothes. They were the best clothes we ever had. We were these very pure, naive, poor children. The rich kids called us a lot of names but it never bothered us because we didn't know what the words meant.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Rich people are so eccentric, and I don't think people really realize. Especially by the turn of the century, they were living like rappers, and there was no income tax. They are some of the most fascinating people, and I am endlessly fascinated.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being an American is such a rich environment, because there's so many people from other countries and cultures, and through that you're able to see other people's experiences.
- Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do care about not 99 percent or 95 percent. I care about the very rich and the very poor. I care about 100 percent of America.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
History does not repeat itself. Nor does it unfold in cycles. The real future is contingent, rich beyond imagining, a perennial gobsmack, tragic and glorious in equal measure; the pundits' future, spun of 'conventional wisdom,' is only a sucker punch to that common-sense fact.
- Predict
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's not that we can predict bubbles - if we could, we would be rich. But we can certainly have a bubble warning system.
- Poor
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think greed is a critical problem - the gap between the poor and the rich. The gap between the top 10 percent and the bottom 10 percent.
- Environmental
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fact is that the rich are getting richer while the poor are being left behind. Women remain under-represented in boardrooms and under-engaged in the global workforce. Environmental change is leaving the poorest countries vulnerable. Voters are becoming more and more politically polarised and partisan.
- Eat
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- Nov 07, 2020
If all we've got is the dirt poor and the filthy rich, the dirt poor would eat the filthy rich.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
The slogan of the moderate Republican Party is this: we are rich, and we are not going to take it any more.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020