A ball player has to be kept hungry to become a big leaguer. That’s why no boy from a rich family has ever made the big leagues. – Joe DiMaggio
I don’t have any expectations as an actor, and being rich and famous is not my driving force. – James D’arcy
About the only difference between the poor and the rich, is this, the poor suffer misery, while the rich have to enjoy it. – Josh Billings
Germany is in terrible condition this year. This is particularly true of the working masses, who are so undernourished that tuberculosis is having a rich harvest, particularly of adolescent children. – Agnes Smedley
I never had ambitions to see how rich I could get. I got a lot of contemporaries that that’s their ambition, and I don’t know very many of them that are happy. – Carroll Shelby
The rich are not born sceptical or cynical. They are made that way by events, circumstances. – J. Paul Getty
Rich countries have been sending aid to poor countries for the last 60 years. And, by and large, this has failed. – Iqbal Quadir
The unlimited power that many modern gurus offer is false hope. Their programs calling us to unlimited power have made them rich, not us. They touch our false selves and tap our toxic shame. – John Bradshaw
Happy the country that lives on nothing but its wits; cursed be the one that thinks it can get rich by planting or digging or drilling for wealth. – Bono
You can almost judge how screwed up somebody is by the kind of toilet paper they use. Go in any rich house and it’s some weird coloured embossed stuff. – Captain Beefheart
Make the people sovereign and the poor will use the machinery of government to dispossess the rich. – C. Northcote Parkinson
High school wasn’t so bad though because, by then, I had worked out that there were far more nerdy kids and poor kids than there were rich, popular kids, so, at the very least, we had them outnumbered. – Beth Ditto
A wealthy landowner cannot cultivate and improve his farm without spreading comfort and well-being around him. Rich and abundant crops, a numerous population and a prosperous countryside are the rewards for his efforts. – Antoine Lavoisier