"When asked what was the proper time for supper: If you are a rich man, whenever you please; and if you are a poor man, whenever you can."
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"I don't like drum solos, to be honest with you, but if anybody ever told me he didn't like Buddy Rich I'd right away say go and see him, at least the once."
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"Fat paunches have lean pates, and dainty bits Make rich the ribs, but backrout quite the wits."
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"The primary difference between rich people and poor people is how they handle fear"
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"The fastest way to become rich is to socialize with the poor; the fastest way to become poor is to socialize with the rich."
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"Life must be rich and full of loving--it's no good otherwise, no good at all, for anyone."
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"In a system of free trade and free markets poor countries - and poor people - are not poor because others are rich. Indeed, if others became less rich the poor would in all probability become still poorer."
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"The best thing a man can do for his culture when he is rich is to endeavor to carry out those schemes which he entertained when he was poor"
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"He who wishes to be benevolent will not be rich."
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"Luxury... corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by covetousness."
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"Rich people are poor people with money."
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"However rich I may have been, I have always lived like a poor man."
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"If there were an honorable way to get rich, I’d do it, even if it meant being a stooge standing around with a whip. But there isn’t an honorable way, so I just do what I like."
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"Let there be seasons so that our tongues will be rich in asparagus and limes."
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"The teeming Autumn big with rich increase, bearing the wanton burden of the prime like widowed wombs after their lords decease."
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"The truth is that money doesn't make you rich; knowledge does."
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"My Poor Dad Often Said, 'I'd Rather Be Happy Than Rich.' My Rich Dad Said, 'Why Not Be Both?'"
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"Leverage is the reason some people become rich and others do not become rich."
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"Interesting thing about being rich is once you pay your taxes, you're still rich."
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"I don't steal things. I'm rich."
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