Quotes About Wealth

Trump wants to take us back to a time when people like him could abuse others with little to no consequence, when people like him could exploit the labor of others to build vast amounts of wealth, when people like him could create public policy that specifically benefited them while suppressing the rights and social mobility of others.

Anger at the wealth gap is no longer about dukes in horse-drawn carriages; it's about vast, tax-dodging corporations. This will not be assuaged by seeing the royal family claiming to live like we do. If anything, that will make us angrier.

The vast sums of money that are coming in at the top end of the game are stretching the rest of the sides to try to get as much benefit out of what finance they've got and get the best players they can find for that finance.

The market fundamentalist ideology that dominates much of the west has attempted to indoctrinate us with a simple myth: that we all rise or fall according to our individual efforts alone; that billionaires amass vast amounts of wealth because they are entrepreneurial, plucky, go-getting geniuses.

The vast majority of Pittsburghers don't come from any kind of serious dough.

There are a lot of books about the passing of the English aristocracy, but the vast majority of Long Islanders don't understand their own backyard. It's a private preserve.

The rumors of Radziwill fortune have been vastly overstated.

Let's restore sanity and fairness to the tax cut conversation. We simply cannot afford to hand over the bank vault to our nation's millionaires and billionaires while the middle class picks up spare change.

It is not easy to get rich in Las Vegas, at Churchill Downs, or at the local Merrill Lynch office.

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

Kate Middleton has no blue blood coursing through her veins. Her father, Michael, is self-made, and he and his wife have been very successful with their party business, but they are and always will be strictly middle class.

Plush velvet conjures up kings and opulence.

Batman. I like the idea that if I had enough money, time, and vengeance, I could become him.

The irony of the political rise of the plutocrats is that, like Venice's oligarchs, they threaten the system that created them.

Many entrepreneurs, and the venture investors who back them, seek to build billion-dollar companies.

Very, very few entrepreneurs who accept a 51 percent partner in a new venture will get rich if they are also expected to run it. Control is mandatory.

I was thinking what happens if I break my leg today? What can I do to prevent me going back to the place of being poor? It led me to the world of venture capitalism. How are they making money? I decided I'm going to learn as much as I can.

As I became a venture capitalist, it's almost like I went to the dark side for a while.

I remember looking up to most any venture capitalist as someone who could make my little company happen with a single million-dollar check.

Venture capital is about capturing the value between the startup phase and the public company phase.

Historically venture capital funds have only allowed elite investors in.

I've been fortunate enough to experience financial success on a large scale through both my music career and my many business ventures. With this type of financial success comes financial responsibility.

The honest man might observe... that no one gets something for nothing; that politicians go in poor and go out rich; that the Government screws up everything it touches; and that the Will to Believe is best confined to the Religious Venue, as to practice it elsewhere is just too damned expensive.

I think everybody thinks they can have the next $100 million venue. I think there is a bit of arrogance in that.