Quotes About Wealth

Funny thing is that the poorer people are, the more generous they seem to be.

I don't mind the rich getting richer, but the poor shouldn't be getting poorer, and there should be more people moving into the middle class.

The capitalist system is about taking from the Earth and from the other great commodity, labour. What's happening with this system is that the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer, and the only way out of it is supposed to be growth. But growth is debt. It's going to make the situation worse.

We have to find a way to make the aspects of capitalism that serve wealthier people serve poorer people as well.

I've had two callers ask, 'Did you ever work for someone who is poorer than you are?' Their idea is it takes a rich person to give you a job because jobs are something that are given to you, an inferior, from on high.

No Man is richer for having his Estate all in Money, Plate, etc. lying by him, but on the contrary, he is for that reason the poorer.

If the country's poorer, it's got less money.

The way to turn our economy around is not by making rich people poorer, it's by making poor people richer.

We say we need to clean up the environment; to clean up the environment, we need to be richer. But maybe getting richer is actually making us poorer.

Detroit is really a model for how wealthier and whiter Americans escape the costs of public goods they'd otherwise share with poorer and darker Americans.

Elvis Presley's estate is making 30 million a year, and they say that Marley shouldn't be, but he is from a much poorer part of the world, and a lot more people need the money.

We were much poorer than many families.

I'm the poorest famous person in the country.

Most poor people live in the poorest countries.

I'm called 'the poorest president', but I don't feel poor.

It is interesting to note that the 200 richest people have more assets than the 2 billion poorest.

The poorest people are so incredibly poor, and the rich are so incredibly rich on the other side. That is a kind of fascination.

I was one of the poorest people in America.

Whether we are poor among the poorest, or less poor among the wealthier, let us stand proud and noteworthy, united and strong, comforted by our belonging to the Community of the Free Nations of our Planet.

We have at our fingertips information that 500 years ago would have made the poorest man a prince.

The poorest guy in Miami lives better than much of the power elite in Havana.

Money is a bubble that never pops. It's a consensus hallucination.

The whole of the global economy is based on supplying the cravings of two per cent of the world's population.

The world's richest half billion people - that's about seven per cent of the global population - are responsible for fifty per cent of the world's emissions.