People getting rich in a free society in general - with some scammy exceptions, which are rare - makes everyone else richer, too.
For lots of people who became rich, they believe they earned their fortune through hard work. They don't think about society and only want to leave their fortune to their children.
I've never felt entirely comfortable in high society. I'm more comfortable talking to the bar staff than the super-rich. I don't really get what makes them tick.
As with the onset of sudden celebrity, for the newly rich, the world often becomes a darker, narrower, less generous place; a paradox that elicits scant sympathy, but is nonetheless true.
Try paying the bills with love. The idea I am trying to espouse is that you can have both love and money, and be rich and generous.
In regard of the rich grace and wisdom of his love toward his people; for who sees not, but that it is a curse to be unready as these foolish virgins, who were therefore shut out.
Rich Mullins was the uneasy conscience of Christian music. He didn't live like a star. He'd taken a vow of poverty so that what he earned could be used to help others.
Music in itself carries a whole set of messages which are very, very rich and complex, and the words either serve to exclude certain ones or point up certain others.
I'm amazed at how adventurous and how dangerous the music was, and still is. I haven't heard anything like it since. I'm quite surprised, because a lot of the music on there we never heard at the time.
Everybody was on the same page. Nobody has really gone out there on a different musical journey. When we got back together again, we all wanted to do the same kind of music.
I could really use a corporate sponsor. People think that because you're in the movies, you're rich. I have allocated all my resources to Shambala so the animals will always be safe.
Stand not too near the rich man lest he destroy thee - and not too far away lest he forget thee.
If Thy dear home be fuller, Lord, For that a little emptier My house on earth, what rich rewards That guerdon were.
The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread.
We are rich in the quantity of songs rather than in the quality. The singer has to go through hundreds of compositions before he finds one that really says something.
There's nothing worse than having everybody thinking alike, talking alike and having the same direction in mind. It gets stale that way.
You don't need to be rich to have high confidence, all you do need is to be proud of yourself and there you'll go with confidence.
Everyone is poor in one way or another, so there is no need to worry of where you belong, we are all rich and poor at the same time.
Writing like this is a little like milking a cow: the milk is so rich and delicious, and the cow is so glad you did it.
I have about concluded that wealth is a state of mind, and that anyone can acquire a wealthy state of mind by thinking rich thoughts.
All the political angst and moral melodrama about getting 'the rich' to pay 'their fair share' is part of a big charade. This is not about economics, it is about politics.
