Top 40 Rich Man Quotes

Bill Gates is a very rich man today… and do you want to know why? The answer is one word: versions.

I heard someone say that it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than a rich man to get into heaven. I decided to sculpt camels in a needle.

I would be a rich man if I had a quarter for every time one of my Republican colleagues on the Foreign Relations Committee utters some variation of the sentence, ‘President Obama doesn’t have a strategy to defeat ISIS.’ It’s their calling card on the committee – and on the campaign trail.

It is harder for a poor man to be successful than it is for a rich man.

A rich man can afford to be generous to many.

In Brazil, a poor man goes to jail when he steals. When a rich man steals, he becomes a minister.

I was attracted to opera when I was 15 or 16. A very rich man in England bankrupted himself to put on a lot of opera during the war, but he converted a lot of people, myself included, in the process.

You must be independent and able to do for yourself. Then you do not have to marry a rich man; you can marry a poor one. And if it is wrong, you can go.

I was such a Jewish princess. My whole life was leading up to marrying a rich man and living on 48th Street.

A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can’t think of anything else to do.

Grooming oneself with all the crazed compulsion of an under-exercised lab rat in order to hook a rich man and obtain a lush lifestyle makes a certain (albeit seedy) sense.

I still believe the lessons I learned when I was raised in a Roman Catholic household. Like, it’s harder for a rich man to get into Heaven than for a camel to go through the eye of a needle.

We have ministers who are incapable of doing what has been ordered from above because there is no follow up, because there are no consequences. If you are poor man and you steal, your hand is cut off after three offences. But if you are a rich man, nobody will say anything to you.

The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor.

I really detest movies like ‘Indecent Proposal‘ and ‘Pretty Woman‘ because they send a message to women that sleeping with a rich man is the ultimate goal and really that’s such a small part of it.

A conservative is a fellow who thinks a rich man should have a square deal.

When I found out my mother wanted me to marry a rich man, I instantly didn’t want any rich man.

A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool.

Pride in the case of a rich man is bad, but pride in the case of a poor man is worse.

A rich man told me recently that a liberal is a man who tells other people what to do with their money.

Nobody wants to make me a rich man. In fact, most people want to make me a very poor man. I can guarantee some people fantasize at night about how poor they can make me.

The most expensive hobby a rich man could have is a boat, and the second most expensive hobby he could have is a very old house.

Perhaps they do not recognize themselves, for a rich man is even harder to define than a poor one.

I know that a man who shows me his wealth is like the beggar who shows me his poverty; they are both looking for alms from me, the rich man for the alms of my envy, the poor man for the alms of my guilt.

There is none to tell the rich to go on striving, for a rich man makes the law that hallows and hollows his own life.

Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with consequences and injurious to society and morality.

The rich man who gives, steals twice over. First he steals the money and then the hearts of men.

Stand not too near the rich man lest he destroy thee – and not too far away lest he forget thee.

It’s easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to make a blues record.

If I had been thinking business since I was 21, I’d be a rich man right now.

Anybody who can drive and doesn’t come out of it a rich man is a fool.

I can understand how some women want to marry a rich man. They may be happy for the rest of their lives, but they will never be free.

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

Bioscience and biotech offer many opportunities. The U.S. focuses on the rich man; India has rich man diseases and poor man diseases. So you have a much larger set of opportunities.

In my heart, I’m just a kid from the council houses. I can remember the old cottage and my dad coming round with the tin bath. I’m not a rich man.

I tell you the truth, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.

My mother was against me being an artist. She just wanted me to marry a rich man.

I’m sure I could have been a rich man, but I never was.

I’m a rich man, but I don’t want to be a miser.

I left Columbia in the mid-’60s. I had a guaranteed contract for, like, $100,000 a year. And I just let it go. And I wasn’t a rich man. There were a lot of bad vibes around the whole thing.