Robert Shaw Quotes

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

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.

Wealth is the ultimate panacea to poverty.

Coming from where I came from, it was unimaginable to ever be wealthy. That was just too far out of my reach.

Think about it: Every educated person is not rich, but almost every education person has a job and a way out of poverty. So education is a fundamental solution to poverty.

If you're planning only to make money and nothing else, you'll be broke.

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

Very few people can afford to be poor.

I am who I am. I can't pretend to be somebody who makes $25,000 a year.

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.

The goatherds were the poorest people of Spain. Probably, they were the richest.

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

I do care about not 99 percent or 95 percent. I care about the very rich and the very poor. I care about 100 percent of America.

Economic growth is necessary to keep the promise - enormously important to individual Americans - that each generation will have the opportunity to become more prosperous than the preceding one, the popular term for which is 'the American dream.'

We are one of the richest countries in the world, and there is absolutely no reason why anyone should have to live in poverty.

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.

I came from a dirt farm, now I'm filthy rich.

Though I knew that poverty certainly didn't buy happiness, I wasn't convinced that money did, either.

It's the middle class that feels the luxury of being able to have causes.

In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land.

I often think what it was like not to have much money. I don't think it's good for people to be born into money and not know what it is never to have it.

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

Those of us who have been economically successful cannot forget those who have not.

Prosperity is just around the corner.