“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.”

Bill Murray (1950) American actor and comedian

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

John Brunner book The Tides of Time

“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...”

Maximilien Robespierre (1758–1794) French revolutionary lawyer and politician

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

Coco Chanel (1883–1971) French fashion designer

“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.”

Martina Navrátilová (1956) American-Czech tennis player

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

Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) American art collector and experimental writer of novels, poetry and plays

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

Baba Amte (1914–2008) Indian freedom fighter, social worker

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

Logan Pearsall Smith (1865–1946) British American-born writer

“…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.”

John Updike book Rabbit at Rest