Wealthy – Page 2

Early to bed and

Early to bed and early to rise makes a person dull, boring, and despised. Ernie J Zelinski

Contrary to popular belief, prosperity is an emotional state that has little to do with your wealth or the state of the economy. You can feel more prosperous in a one-room cottage than most wealthy people feel in a twenty-room mansion. Misers will hoard a lot of money and spendthrifts will spend whatever they have … Read more

What rights have women?

What rights have women? … [they are] punished for breaking laws which they have no voice in making. All avenues to enterprise and honors are closed against them. If poor, they must drudge for a mere pittance if of the wealthy classes, they must be dressed dolls of fashion parlor puppets. Ernestine Rose

I stumbled into soul

I stumbled into soul music at a very young age. It had something that really spoke to me. Nowadays it’s not only American gospel or soul music, it’s whenever somebody decides to do music in a way that’s honest and passionate. I got into the Motown songs. It had to do with where I come … Read more

So the greatest source

So the greatest source of happiness is other people- and what does money do? It isolates us from other people. It enables us to build walls, literal and figurative, around ourselves. We move from a teeming college dorm to an apartment to a house, and if we’re really wealthy, to an estate. We think we’re … Read more

I think I’m wealthy.

I think I’m wealthy. I make a good living for what I do. Well, it depends. If I’m doing an independent film I’m making no money – probably losing money. But if I’m doing a studio film, I’ll make a decent wage. I can live for a year without working. Eric Stoltz

The biggest start-up successes

The biggest start-up successes – from Henry Ford to Bill Gates to Mark Zuckerberg – were pioneered by people from solidly middle-class backgrounds. These founders were not wealthy when they began. They were hungry for success, but knew they had a solid support system to fall back on if they failed. Eric Ries

Instead of building housing

Instead of building housing in a wealthy neighborhood and saying, here you go, here’s some under the market which will, by the way, drop the market for everyone’s housing. Go into the lower income neighborhoods and say, here’s a business incentives, so that people can get jobs. Eric Bolling

My predecessor taxed wealthy,

My predecessor taxed wealthy, successful people at a higher rate than ever before. And what happened? They left. And what came of it? Did unemployment drop? No. Emmanuel Macron

I have had lots

I have had lots of friends who’ve been affected by Aids and a very good friend of mine, Oscar Moore, died of Aids and I was with him in his last year quite a bit. And of course he was a man living in a very rich culture with a wealthy family who was able … Read more