Quotes About Wealth

One of society's absurd delusions is that the spending of money can cure something.

Do I consider myself a part of the casino capitalist process? No I don't. I believe in a society where all people do well.

To be wealthy and honored in an unjust society is a disgrace.

A 'social justice' society is a conflict which locks beneficiaries and victims alike in a struggle without end. It becomes a society torn apart by resentment over the wealth of capitalists.

Capitalism is like math. It is amoral. It is good at producing wealth; it's bad at distributing wealth. Unless it operates within a moral framework it will produce an unjust society.

Aiming at giving our kids a competitive edge in a consumer society - that, in principle, is a goal that is limitless.

The police become necessary in human society Only at that junction in human society Where it is split between those who have and those who ain't got

Money is the barometer of a society's virtue.

In hindsight it may even seem inevitable that a socialist society will starve when it runs out of capitalists.

On balance, the financial system subracts value from society

Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.

A Society in which the people's wants do not exceed their possessions is not a Socialist society.

There is an excellent correlation between giving society what it wants and making money, and almost no correlation between the desire to make money and how much money one makes.

I realized about 10 years ago that my wealth has to go back to society. A fortune, the size of which is hard to imagine, is best not passed on to one's children. It's not constructive for them.

When I had made more money than I needed for myself and my family, I set up a foundation to promote the values and principles of a free and open society.

The businessman is only tolerable so long as his gains can be held to bear some relation to what, roughly and in some sense, his activities have contributed to society.

Class is a way of looking at society that divides people into different categories based on how much money they're willing to make.

There are only two classes in society: those who get more than they earn, and those who earn more than they get.

I have been very fortunate to be successful in business, and I believe that it is right that people who have this type of wealth should give something back into society.

It is untrue that some are poor because others are rich. If an order of society in which incomes were equal replaced the capitalist order, everyone would become poorer.

The continued existence of society depends upon private property.

Economics is not politics. One is a science, concerned with the immutable and constant laws of nature that determine the production and distribution of wealth; the other is the art of ruling.

Capitalists have done more good for society through their charitable giving, philanthropy and generosity than all their critics combined.

Civilization, or that which is so called, has operated two ways to make one part of society more affluent and the other part more wretched than would have been the lot of either in a natural state.