Quotes About Wealth

A lot of my book, 'The Price of Inequality,' is about why there has been an increase in rent-seeking.

Success breeds inequality, and you don't want to choke off success.

'Munmun' happened because the human world's dizzying inequality - of wealth and of power - had begun to send me over the edge, and I had to write something to try to help myself understand it a little better.

Rising inequality is not a law of nature - it's not even a law of economics. It is a consequence of political and economic arrangements, and those arrangements can be changed.

If you don't have money or you come from a background that doesn't have money, it's harder to achieve your ambition in life. It's not that you can't, but it becomes harder. Inequality is one of the worst things that can exist in our society, so I am interested in those kind of things.

We live in a country of grotesque inequalities.

Income inequity has to be addressed.

If I'm greedy and keep chasing the money, it's inevitable I will be beaten one day.

Inflation is the crabgrass in your savings.

People concerned about inflation today tend to buy big houses and nice cars.

After adjusting for inflation, the average income of the top 5% of households grew by 38% from 1989 to 2013. By comparison, the average real income of the other 95% of households grew less than 10%.

Affluence means influence.

And very often the influence exerted on a person's character by the amount of his income is hardly less, if it is less, than that exerted by the way in which it is earned.

If you only use rich and luxurious ingredients, you end up with excess.

There's nothing inherently or patently wrong with anybody who does well, works hard, earns a living, betters themselves. I'm not against any of these things. It's about how you make that money, and then what you do with it.

I did not inherit a single dime from my father.

We're seeing a new 'Gilded Age,' where inheritance is a deciding factor in who becomes the wealthiest.

Some people in my family achieved a lot, some people inherited a lot. But I turned my back on the whole thing.

I can't stand people who have all the money but do not even bother to help innocent children in any small way they possibly can.

Any time that when you're rich and guilty, you're treated better than if you're poor and innocent, something has to change.

I've had no money, I've had a lot of money, I've lost a lot of money. I've been back and forth with everything. That's why other people's input doesn't really matter to me, because nobody's put me where I'm at.

It's insane to really think about, someone is going to pay me $100 million to do what I would do anyway on a regular day; it's insane.

I think when you start talking about selling a company or a company wants to buy you, then you start thinking about how much money you're going to have. That's insidious because it saps your will to continue.

People look at Instagram and say they want money, they want this, they want that.