Quotes About Wealth

Give tax breaks to large corporations, so that money can trickle down to the general public, in the form of extra jobs.

Successful businesses create jobs; that is true. But the notion that if we cut taxes enough for the very rich and for already hugely profitable businesses, then all that money will trickle down to everyone else in the form of job creation is simply false.

I came from a family of extremely old money, and so by the time I was born, there was really just a trickle of money left.

It is this obsession with GDP and FDI growth and a facile belief that this growth in the GDP would trickle down to the poor as well, that has led to the neglect of the genuine concerns of the poor in the country.

Wealth is used to entrench inequality, not to trickle down and solve it.

One of the tricks of life is to have sense and money in roughly equal proportions.

I tried all my life to make housing affordable. The more affordable the house, the more money I make.

I have two trifling ambitions in the theater: to make a lot of people laugh and to make a lot of money.

From the peak in 2007 to the trough in 2009, Americans lost $11 trillion of net worth for households and businesses.

A trillion here, a trillion there and pretty soon you're talking about real money.

What's interesting is there are $12 billion of breaks in the energy bill that passed, yet we see that the sixth major oil companies in America last year made $1.1 trillion.

I don't care whether something makes one dollar or a trillion because guess what? I don't know many happy rich people. And I know a lot of rich people.

Our incomes should be like our shoes; if too small, they will gall and pinch us; but if too large, they will cause us to stumble and to trip.

The Kardashians are buying my kids Prada every other day. They're going on lavish trips. They're doing all these things, which is fine. I think it's nice that they're being kind to my kids. I want that for my children.

In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land.

The triumph of economic liberalization has coincided with a sharp increase in income inequality.

Capitalism might everywhere be spreading havoc, but it is also triumphant everywhere.

Money talks. It starts rumors about careers and complicity and speaks of the tragedies and triumphs of our social lives.

If we want to jack up the tax rates on the really rich, the amounts of money that would bring in are trivial compared to jacking up rates on the middle class.

Some players are more concentrated on what they will do after their football career and want to make sure their lives are financially settled. I prefer to play in big teams earn a little less money and win trophies.

At a club like Chelsea, they have the money to buy world class strikers like Diego Costa, and there's also that pressure to win trophies. I just have to stick with it, be patient, and hopefully my rewards will come.

Everest is not real climbing. It's rich people climbing. It's a trophy on the wall, and they're done... When I say I wish I'd never gone, I really mean that.

I would say 90 percent of the scripts that show up on my door are women who have had lots of plastic surgery that are married to rich men - sort of a trophy wife.

Asia is rich in people, rich in culture and rich in resources. It is also rich in trouble.