Nouveau Riche

The ungovernable passion for wealth. - Ovid

The rich man has more relations than he knows. - French Proverb

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

If you don't risk anything, you risk even more. - Erica Jong

A rich child often sits in a poor mother's lap. - Danish Proverb

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

To live without risk for me would be tantamount to death. - Jacqueline Cochran

When the rich think about the poor, they have poor ideas. - Evita Peron

The wretchedness of being rich is that you live with rich people. - Logan Pearsall Smith

Being rich is better than being poor, if only for financial reasons. - Woody Allen

A man is never so on trial as in the moment of excessive good fortune. - Lew Wallace

Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky. - Michel de Montaigne

We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse. - Anne-Sophie Swetchine

No one ever says, "It's only a game" when their team is winning. - George Carlin

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone. - Henry David Thoreau

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay. - Simone de Beauvoir

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune. - Jim Rohn

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

Wealthy people miss one of life's greatest thrills: making the last car payment. - Unknown

I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous. - Ani DiFranco

The rich take life one financial year at a time. The poor take life one meal at a time. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation, which give happiness. - Thomas Jefferson

There is scarcely an instance of a man who has made a fortune by speculation and kept it. - Andrew Carnegie

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

The gambling known as business looks with severe disfavor upon the business known as gambling. - Ambrose Bierce

We all get the same amount of ice. The rich get it in the summer. The poor get it in the winter. - Bat Masterson

There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor. - Thomas W. Higginson

It's going to be fun to watch and see how long the meek can keep the earth after they inherit it. - Kin Hubbard

A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them a fortune. - Richard Whately

Whether you're having setbacks or not, the role of a leader is to always display a winning attitude. - Colin Powell

It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it. - Maurice Switzer

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

Winning doesn't always mean being first. Winning means you're doing better than you've done before. - Bonnie Blair

Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer of money from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries. - Douglas Casey

Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing. - Denis Waitley

They say it is better to be poor and happy than rich and miserable, but how about a compromise like moderately rich and just moody? - Princess Diana

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him. - Samuel Johnson

Risk and failure is a part of our equation, and if you are seeing too little failure, you are actually probably not taking enough risks. - Peter Barris

Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other. - Oscar Ameringer

The Law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich, as well as the poor, to sleep under the bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread. - Anatole France