Ironically, for the mega-rich, recession brings with it the ability to live well at a lower cost and with less of a hassle.
Everybody's going through a lot of stress these days, no matter how well off you are and how many advantages you have, it's a stressful time in everybody's lives.
Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can - there will always come a time when you will be grateful you did.
The genre has moved into this commercial aspect of itself, and ignored this extraordinarily rich literature that's filed everywhere else except under travel.
We must trust our own thinking. Trust where we're going. And get the job done.
Jake Gittes: He's rich! Do you understand? He thinks he can get away with anything.
You know, you cut taxes for the rich sometimes and it sits in a bank account. You cut taxes for the middle class, they will spend the money.
A lot of people around me were really staggeringly rich, which I never have been. I walked in between the raindrops of real money, but I've stayed happy.
Portland is quickly becoming one of those lovely, lush Third World countries where kinda-rich people retire with their money.
As someone from a developing country, I have a problem with rich countries thinking they can tell us anything, simply because they are giving money.
I know why most people never get rich. They put the money ahead of the job. If you just think of the job, the money will automatically follow. This never fails.
We have a new generation of very rich people who want to do more with their money than buy a lot of expensive toys. They want to live meaningful lives.
As capitalism falters, the rich move their money out of the country, violence increases, and politicians promising prosperity are elected.
Conservatives believe the economy functions better if the rich have more money and everyone else has less. But they're wrong. It's just the opposite.
The desire for money may be an indication of greed, but I want to argue that greed is a much more subtle vice than simply the desire to be rich.
We can't afford big symphonies but we commission works that sound rich and symphonic because of the nature of the instrumentation and the people we work with.
Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent.
I don't feel that the conductor has real power. The orchestra has the power, and every member of it knows instantaneously if you're just beating time.
For me it's been very exciting to contribute to the public's understanding of how rich and wondrous science is.
If you look in 'The Science of Getting Rich,' you see no reference whatsoever to the 'law of attraction.'
Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.
