It's always the rich and there's plenty to waste, yet still China has a lot of people living in very spare, poor conditions.

But avarice and ambition in the rich, in the poor the hatred of labour and the love of present ease and enjoyment, are the passions which prompt to invade property, passions much more steady in their operation, and much more universal in their influence. Wherever there is great property there is great inequality. For one very rich man there must be at least five hundred poor, and the affluence of the few supposes the indigence of the many.

The richer people, when they get another $100,000, or another million, or 10 million, don't tend to spend it as much as the poorer people would if they got another $100 or $1,000 or $5,000. All the empirical evidence suggests that the rich tend to consume a lower proportion of income than middle and lower-income people.

China has a rich history that has spanned millennia. It consists of the histories of many nations and regions.

The rich rob the poor and the poor rob one another.

There are too few rich and too few profits.

Doom very evenly! Do not doom one doom to the rich; another to the poor! Nor doom one doom to your friend; another to your foe!

The compassionate are not rich; therefore, the rich are not compassionate.

It's horrible how money and fame can make you acceptable while, if you're not famous or rich, you're not acceptable.

A woman can't be too rich or too thin.