Rich People Quotes

“The money you make is a symbol of the value you create.”
― Idowu Koyenikan, Wealth for All: Living a Life of Success at the Edge of Your Ability

“There are people who have money and people who are rich.”
― Coco Chanel

“Rich men have dreams. Poor men die to make them come true.”
― Glen Cook, Water Sleeps

“People who advocate simplicity have money in the bank; the money came first, not the simplicity.”
― Douglas Coupland, The Gum Thief

“There's always something to do if you don't have to work or consider the cost. It's no real fun but the rich don't know that. They never had any. They never want anything very hard except maybe somebody else's wife and that's a pretty pale desire compared with the way a plumber's wife wants new curtains for the living room.”
― Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye

“After having everything, a rich man seeks applause and reverence, for there is guilt in his mind. The guilt of having everything in this world.”
― Abhaidev, The Influencer: Speed Must Have a Limit

“The only thing money really buys?...Space. A bigger house, a bigger car, a larger hotel room. First-class plane tickets. But it doesn't even buy comfort. No one complains more than the rich and entitled. Comfort, security, ease. None of them come with money.”
― Louise Penny, A Rule Against Murder

“Everywhere the weak execrate the powerful, before whom they cringe; and the powerful beat them like sheep whose wool and flesh they sell.”
― Voltaire, Candide

“Remembrance of things past is just for the rich. For the poor it only marks the faint traces on the path to death.”
― Albert Camus, The First Man

“[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, Elvis and Gladys

“After having everything, rich people seek applause and reverence, for there is guilt in their minds; the guilt of having everything in this world.”
― Abhaidev, Notes from the Edge of Sanity

“Rich people don’t have to have a life-and-death relationship with the truth and its questions; they can ignore the truth and still thrive materially. I am not surprised many of them understand literature only as an ornament. Life is an ornament to them, relationships are ornaments, their 'work' is but a flimsy, pretty ornament meant to momentarily thrill and capture attention.”
― Sergio Troncoso, Crossing Borders: Personal Essays

“The only thing I like about rich people is their money.”
― Nancy Astor the Viscountess Astor

“The Vikings thought they were big shots because they had boats. You know how obnoxious people get when they own a boat. They always want to go on the boat. "We're taking the boat out this weekend. It's supposed to be beautiful. Why don't you come? You never come. You're always working. You know how many people wish they would get invited to come on the boat? And you turn it down.”
― Colin Quinn, The Coloring Book: A Comedian Solves Race Relations in America

“Jo, they have a baby grand piano, but no one in the family plays. They have shelves of books they've never read, and the tension between the couples was so thick it nearly choked us."
"Let me tell you something 'bout those rich Uptown folk," said Cokie. "They got everything that money can buy, their bank accounts are fat, but they ain't happy. They ain't ever gone be happy. You know why? They soul broke. And money can't fix that, no sir. My friend Bix was poor. Lord, he had to blow that trumpet ten hours a day just to put a little taste in the pot. Died poor, too. You saw him, Jo, with that plate on his chest. But that man wasn't soul broke.”
― Ruta Sepetys, Out of the Easy

“She had a new bracelet on, stacked with emeralds brighter than her eyes. I hate rich people.”
― Helen Oyeyemi, The Icarus Girl

“Behind every great fortune lies a great crime. —HONORÉ DE BALZAC”
― Daniel Silva

“Finding god in the poor is easy. Divinity doesn’t dwell in the rich. It can’t stand them.”
― Myriam Gurba

“If we have not been able to create a prosperous world, the blame for this should not only be placed on the greedy and predatory people who have become extremely rich, but also on the naive poor who allow and help such people to become rich!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“James Madison framed the constitutional order so that power would be in the hands of the Senate, which represents “the wealth of the nation,” the “more capable sett of men,” who have respect for property owners and their rights and understand the need for government “to protect the minority of the opulent against the majority”—though it was not long before he came to deplore “the daring depravity of the times,” as the “stockjobbers will become the pretorian band of the government—at once its tools and its tyrant; bribed by its largesses, and overawing it by clamors and combinations” (1792).”
― Noam Chomsky, Hopes and Prospects

“It occurred to me that rich people are just like regular people, but with more money.”
― Cleo White, Kissed and Missed

“But that's the thing rich people don't understand. When you take everything away from someone, they have nothing to lose.”
― Lindsey Duga, Royal Heirs Academy

“Tens of millions of dollars have been spent to redefine reality and to convince our neighbors that this new age is something that should frighten them. As has so often occurred, the billionaire class has sought to convince those making $30.00 an hour that their enemies are those earning $20.00 an hour. They want the people to fight amongst ourselves so that we remain distracted from the work of remaking a long-broken system. We refuse to let them dictate the rules of the game anymore. They can play by the same rules as the rest of us.”
― Zohran Mamdani

“MAGA dumbfucks are trailer park yokels with 6 teeth who support robber barons with 6 yachts.”
― Oliver Markus Malloy, American Fascism: A German Writer's Urgent Warning To America

“What kind of billionaire ever did anything for the public good?”
― Emma Sloley, The Island of Last Things

“You can't tell whether a person is good or bad by his vicissitudes in life. Good and bad fortune are matters of fate. Good and bad actions are man's way.”
― Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai

“Cuquis can read. She pores over a Bible the missionaries have given her.

"Listen to this," she says. "'Let the rich man glory in his humiliation, because like flowering grass he will pass away. For the sun rises with a scorching wind and withers the grass. And its flower falls off. And the beauty of its appearance is destroyed. So too the rich man in his pursuits will fade away.'"

Several of the women mutter, "Amen."

"Good old Jesus Christ," Cuca says. "He'll kick the shit out of those rich bastards.”
― Luis Alberto Urrea, Six Kinds of Sky: A Collection of Short Fiction

“It's just that some of the people I've met through her, the athletes, the influencers and writers? They all have this same self-righteousness, like this assumption that what they're doing is more valuable than anyone else's work, but they don't do anything if they're not the marquee name, if it doesn't further their brand in some way. They're fucking hollow inside. I don't know, it makes my skin crawl. And it doesn't help that they all happen to be rich.”
― Angela Flournoy, The Wilderness

“The world would be a better place without billionaires.”
― Oliver Markus Malloy, Inside The Mind of an Introvert

“The real flex isn’t getting rich.
It’s staying kind, humble, and grounded after you do.”
― Rahul Gemawath