Billie Holiday Quotes

Choice dependent on wealth; those are the Tory words.

The poor generally follow behavior patterns established by the rich.

The competition of the poor takes away from the reward of the rich.

I led a comfortable life, went to good schools and was privileged in many ways, but my father worked hard. We never considered ourselves rich.

When the idle poor become the idle rich, you'll never know just who is who, or which is which.

You have to be very rich or very poor to live without a trade.

Contrary to what those in power would like you to believe so that you'll give up your pension, cut your wages, and settle for the life your great-grandparents had, America is not broke. Not by a long shot. The country is awash in wealth and cash.

I had hoped that foreboding economic circumstances would have caused the ultra-rich to think not just of themselves and increasing their own personal affluence. Unfortunately, however, too many of them lack concern, and without this concern, the divisive imbalance will only worsen with recession.

The fact is that, except for those very few whose wealth is overwhelmingly or entirely inherited, the more affluent have usually worked harder than the less affluent.

I don't like inherited wealth.

The rich get richer. Not only because they have surpluses with which to invest, but because of the overriding emotional release they experience from having wealth.

There are but two families in the world … The haves and the have-nots.

What is called sound economics is very often what mirrors the needs of the respectably affluent.

The notion of self-care for people who have hundreds of millions of dollars, it doesn't seem like a radical thing.

I am not biased against the rich because they are rich, but the most lively people are those without money who would like to have some

The rich are different than you and me: they have more money and they have more power.

There are only two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the artist and the monk who renounces possessions.

One thing's sure and nothing surer. The rich get richer and the poor get- children

To trust people is a luxury in which only the wealthy can indulge; the poor cannot afford it.

The rich are different from us.

Suppose a nation, rich and poor, high and low, ten millions in number, all assembled together; not more than one or two millions will have lands, houses, or any personal property; if we take into the account the women and children, or even if we leave them out of the question, a great majority of every nation is wholly destitute of property, except a small quantity of clothes, and a few trifles of other movables.

It's quite confusing being one of the less wealthy people at a posh place.

The laws are stacked for the wealthy.

In all the world, rich people are very unpopular.

I love Romney. It is not his fault that he is the son of a successful governor and makes $20 million a year.