“The point that the Democrats missed was that the people who weren’t rich wanted to be rich.”

“I always like to say to people who want to be rich and famous, try being rich first. See if that doesn't cover most of it.”

“Most rich people get rich by taking what they want without paying for it. It’s the way of the world.”

“The people only ask for what is necessary, it only wants justice and tranquility, the rich aspire to everything, they want to invade and dominate everything. Abuses are the work and the domain of the rich, they are the scourges of the people: the interest of the people is the general interest, that of the rich is a particular interest...”

“There are people who have money and people who are rich.”

“People who are rich want to be richer, but what's the difference? You can't take it with you. The toys get different, that's all. The rich guys buy a football team, the poor guys buy a football. It's all relative.”

“I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.”

“…richness of heart of the poor people [and to despise] the poverty of heart of the rich.”

“It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.”

“…If you could ever get the poor to vote in this country, you'd have socialism. But people want to think rich. That's the genius of the capitalist system: either you're rich, or you want to be, or you think you ought to be.”