Quotes About Wealth

If we hold the poverty thought, the penury thought, the thought of lack, we cannot demonstrate abundance. We must hold the plenty thought if we would reach plenty.

Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education... no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.

Class structures are a luxury that we cannot afford.

Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.

The American people know that we cannot spend our way to prosperity.

We cannot run a democracy without a strong middle class.

The responsibility of philanthropy rests with us. The wealthier we are, the more powerful we get. We cannot put the entire onus on the government.

We cannot eliminate poverty without enabling developing countries to engage more people in economic activity that use natural resources, and we cannot resolve runaway climate change without creating wealth in a more equitable and less carbon intensive way.

There's no excuse in 2019, with the wealth we have as a nation, with the technology we have as a country, that we cannot clean this water, ensure that all communities have clean drinking water.

Until we fix the deep-rooted problems of economic inequality, we cannot expect young people to experience the best childhood and adolescence.

People at the top spend less money than those at the bottom, so when you have redistribution toward the top, aggregate demand goes down. Unless you intervene, you're going to have a weak economy unless something else happens.

It's perceived that money can take care of anything but in my experience it makes everything 15 times harder because you can't act 'normal' and you're not allowed to be vulnerable or weak but we all are.

I don't think there could've been a pitch as crass as Trump's 'I can fix America because I'm rich' without that groundwork laid by Davos and the Clinton Global Initiative.

Money can't buy you happiness, but it helps you look for it in a lot more places.

Here's all I know about Dubai: It's one of those somewhere-over-there places where they make sand.

I am happy everywhere except in places where I see glitz and rich farts. I am happiest in Brooklyn, where the concentration of rich farts is minimal.

If you make money your god, it will plague you like the devil.

I will jump on anybody's private plane at the drop of a hat. I'm an old-fashioned lower-middle-class boy.

I don't want to buy a jet plane. I don't want to live with an entourage.

I don't get paid a salary, but I do like to go by private plane because it saves a lot of time and is very efficient.

I've been offered private planes, and I'm like, 'No!'

If I hadn't given my money away, I'd have had more than anyone else on the planet.

We got rich lawyers... The best lawyers on the planet.

The secreting of wealth in tax havens is often justified as 'legitimate tax planning.'