Quotes About Wealth

Those who control the wealth of this society have an influence over political life far in excess of their number.

The real bias of the media is not to the left or to the right, but to the thin strata of economic elites at the top of our society.

Private Property, the Law of Accumulation of Wealth, and the Law of Competition... these are the highest results of human experience, the soil in which society so far has produced the best fruit.

In America, we are living in a society which is moving more and more toward an oligarchic form of society where government is dominated heavily by big-money interests.

A first-generation fortune is the most likely to be given away, but once a fortune is inherited it's less likely that a very high percentage will go back to society.

Exclusiveness is a characteristic of recent riches, high society, and the skunk.

What makes for the good society is a sound economy. Without it, all the rest falls apart.

I think our biggest problem in society is we're headed more and more toward a two-tiered society. That is, creating welfare for the wealthy and destroying opportunities for the disadvantaged.

In a capitalist society, persons who create capital, like Michael Eisner, are given the staggering rewards.

As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

I firmly believe the death tax is good for people from all walks of life all throughout our society.

Ironically, in the full-fledged transfer society, where governments busy themselves redistributing income by means of hundreds of distinct programs, hardly anyone is better off as a result.

In a capitalistic society the losers slaved for the winners and you have to have more losers than winners.

The higher the coefficient of inequality (Gini coefficient) in a society, the worse things tend to be for those at the bottom.

The well-being of individual persons in any society varies inversely with the money at the disposal of the political class.

The rich don't have to kill to eat. They employ people, as they call it. The rich don't do evil themselves. They pay. People do all they can to please them, and everybody's happy.

The proper aim is to try and reconstruct society on such a basis that poverty will be impossible.

As long as men are men, a poor society cannot be too poor to find a right order of life, nor a rich society too rich to have need to seek it.

How long will it be necessary to pay City men so entirely out of proportion to what other servants of society commonly receive for performing social services not less useful or difficult?

Donald Trump says he'll cut taxes and that will make the more productive members of our society more productive still and that he'd create more jobs.

Society is the offspring of leisure; and to acquire this forms the only rational motive for accumulating wealth, notwithstanding the cant that prevails on the subject of labor.

The wealth of society is its stock of productive labor.

I think the free-enterprise system has been great for society. That doesn't mean it's completely perfect. And also, when people say capitalism, I'm not really sure what they mean.

There's not as much big money on the left, but you've got George Soros, who has the Open Society Institute. He's pushing liberal policies.