Chinese Proverb Quotes

There's no future in being poor.

There's only one thing money won't buy, and that is poverty.

Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships; the poor man everywhere lies low.

I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.

How the sting of poverty, or small means, is gone when one keeps house for one's own comfort and not for the comfort of one's neighbors.

The ability to take advantage of freedom and democracy is proportional to the size of your bank account.

Government posts are for sale, preventing some poor people with abilities from serving in those positions.

I want to have a catalogue or a share in a company. I'm trying to take my family's name from lower-middle class to aristocracy. I have my sights set high.

Wealth is the ultimate panacea to poverty.

Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent.

False shame accompanies a man that is poor, shame that either harms a man greatly or profits him; shame is with poverty, but confidence with wealth.

Real freedom is having nothing. I was freer when I didn't have a cent.

I think you're only free if you're working on very low or huge money.

Money makes people bold and cosmopolitan; if you are poor, you are naturally conservative. It's not easy to be a bohemian when you have to worry about what is going to happen with you and with your next paycheck.

Money is only a vehicle that provides you with options, and I say there's only one thing that money can't buy - poverty.

Planning ahead is a measure of class. The rich and even the middle class plan for future generations, but the poor can plan ahead only a few weeks or days.

In fact, I'd just like to own something. Everyone thinks I'm glamorous, rich and famous but all I've got is some recording equipment and a battered old BMW.

This only grant me, that my means may lie too low for envy, for contempt too high.

You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich.

Without money honor is merely a disease.

The biggest thing the money Infosys brought me is the freedom to do what I want. And what I want is to give millions more the opportunities I had.

There's a lot of freedom in having nothing. You don't have responsibility. You have nobody to answer to. But I'd rather deal without the poverty.

Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

It would astonish if not amuse the older citizens to learn that I (a strange, friendless, uneducated, penniless boy, working at ten dollars per month) have been put down as the candidate of pride, wealth, and aristocratic family distinction.

To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility.