Nouveau Riche

Seek wealth, it's good. - Ivan Boesky

There is no gambling like politics. - Benjamin Disraeli

A rich man's joke is always funny. - Thomas Edward Brown

Behind every great fortune there is a crime. - Honore de Balzac

A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money. - WC Fields

When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die. - Jean-Paul Sartre

He that waits upon fortune is never sure of a dinner. - Benjamin Franklin

If you take the risk, you are deserving of the reward. - Joe Segal

If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score? - Vince Lombardi

An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth. - Bonnie Friedman

Riches don't make a man rich, they only make him busier. - Christopher Columbus

Idealism loses to pragmatism when it comes to winning elections. - Danny Strong

I don't trust a bank that would lend money to such a poor risk. - Robert Benchley

Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance. - Ruth E. Renkel

How come you never see a headline like 'Psychic Wins Lottery'? - Jay Leno

Every success is usually an admission ticket to a new set of decisions. - Henry Kissinger

Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose. - F.M. Knowles

Risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing. - Leo Buscaglia

I rented a lottery ticket. I won a million dollars. But I had to give it back. - Steven Wright

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. - T S Eliot

The problem with beauty is that it's like being born rich and getting poorer. - Joan Collins

Common sense is just as good a critic of the lottery as any statistical breakdown. - Hunter Baker

I think we risk becoming the best-informed society that has ever died of ignorance. - Ruben Blades

No matter how much fame and fortune you achieve, don't get wrapped up in yourself. - Dal Richards

A rich person should leave his kids enough to do something, but not enough to do nothing. - Warren Buffet

So often in life, things that you regard as an impediment turn out to be great good fortune. - Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Obamacare is, number one and maybe least importantly, it's costing the country a fortune. - Donald Trump

It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich. - Alan Alda

People hate me because I am a multifaceted, talented, wealthy, internationally famous genius. - Jerry Lewis

Yes, risk taking is inherently failure-prone. Otherwise, it would be called sure-thing-taking. - Tim McMahon

Freedom, privileges, options, must constantly be exercised, even at the risk of inconvenience. - Jack Vance

The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges. - Anatole France

A man is not wealthy simply by the contents of his pockets alone, but instead by the richness of his heart. - Robert M. Hensel

Inherited wealth is a big handicap to happiness. It is as certain death to ambition as cocaine is to morality. - William K Vanderbilt

Things that aren't important, that have nothing to do with winning and losing, don't have to be a rule. - Peter Richmond

No one has yet had the courage to memorialize his wealth on his tombstone. A dollar mark would not look well there. - Corra May Harris

Poverty is an anomaly to rich people. It is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell. - Walter Bagehot

Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible. - Francis Bacon

People shop and learn in a whole new way compared to just a few years ago, so marketers need to adapt or risk extinction. - Brian Halligan

In ordinary life we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer