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Likely misattributed. The phrase was popularized by the writer Orville Schell in "To Get Rich Is Glorious: China in the '80s" (1984) but Schell never actually attributed the words to Deng, telling the L.A. Times's Evelyn Iritani in 2004 that it merely "grew out of the zeitgeist" of China's economic reforms.


Although there are rich people who are fools, having inherited their wealth or were lucky, but rarely does anyone refer to a rich person in those kinds of derogatory terms. They may be called unprincipled, nasty, greedy, but generally not stupid.