Jean-Baptiste Say Quotes

I never met a poor person who wanted to soak the rich; they want to get rich.

Choice dependent on wealth; those are the Tory words.

The rich are different from you and me because they have more credit.

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.

In all the world, rich people are very unpopular.

Those who have some means think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know that it is money.

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

Am I allowed to call myself working-class now? Because obviously I'm now very rich.

It doesn't matter whether you are rich or poor - as long as you've got money.

Everyone is encouraged to see their lives, the world through the eyes of the rich.

I don't like inherited wealth.

I'm working class. Not because my family have always been skint or because I'm from the grim north, but because I am from a class of people who believe in work. In paying their way.

The Republicans are, 'the party of the rich,' my mom said, 'We're poor, so we're Democrats.' That convinced me. I had no wish to remain poor, so I became a Republican at the age of 12.

The affluent society makes no meaningful distinction between luxury and necessity.

The poor generally follow behavior patterns established by the rich.

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

I am a capitalist—a rich businessman and most of you are not.

…nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches, as to conceive how others can be in want.

I'm 21 years old, and it's kind of uncomfortable for me to talk about, but I'm in the 1 percent as far as my income and tax bracket. But now that I'm here, there's no amount of money you can wave in front of my face that will make me understand depriving people of human rights.

That's a huge fear for middle-class women. It's not so much a fear for poor women, because poor women have always assumed that they are going to have to support themselves. It's middle-class women who have this fantasy that somebody else is going to support them.

Because, to despise money, one must have plenty of it.

Them that's got shall get, Them that's not shall lose. So the Bible says, And it still is news. Mama may have, Papa may have, But God bless the child that's got his own.

One of the dangers of having a lot of money is that you may be quite satisfied with the kinds of happiness money can give and so fail to realize your need for God. If everything seems to come simply by signing checks, you may forget that you are at every moment totally dependent on God.

If I don't need the money, I don't work.