Quotes About Wealth

Football generates a lot of money, but there has to be a social responsibility that goes with that. It can positively affect people's lives.

I'm hoping to earn enough to buy a few properties, that way I can make money that way and I want to do social work.

Poverty is not socialism. To be rich is glorious.

Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower classes.

To me, democratic socialism means democracy. It means creating a government that represents all of us, not just the wealthiest people in the country.

Traditional Marxism attempted to argue against free enterprise by saying that capitalism causes poverty and that, therefore, socialism is necessary. That didn't work, because it was false.

Socialism never arises in the earlier phases of capitalism, as, for instance, among the pioneers of civilisation in a country where there is plenty of land available for private appropriation by the last comer.

There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.

Is socialism still for me if I'm a millennial millionaire?

I am a 'champagne socialist,' and I'm proud of it.

I am Left-wing. I am a socialist. I believe in sharing wealth. There's no two ways about it.

Socialists tend to want to pay people more money to do less work, and capitalists tend to want to provide better products at better prices.

All artists are socialists until they see another artist with a bigger house than theirs.

And I don't want my assets to be stuck inside a banana republic in the midst of a huge socialist experiment.

I grew up with no money. My kids will grow up with a lot of money and so it's really important to me, and it will always be a part of my parenting, to keep them conscientious and connected socially to other people.

Having money didn't make me less of a socially incapable loser; it just made me a socially incapable loser who wasn't in debt.

Capitalism is a wonderful economic engine, but it assigns little value to long-term projects or societal problems.

The Princeton economist Alan Krueger has demonstrated that societies with higher levels of income inequality are societies with lower levels of social mobility.

Societies that depend on natural resources tend to have certain inherent problems. The limited concentration of wealth - whether from oil, coal, diamonds, or bauxite - often leads to corruption and authoritarianism.

We're a phenomenally snobby society, and it's such a rich seam. The middle class is so funny: it's the class I know best, and it's the class where you find the most pretension, so that's what makes the middle classes so funny.

Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with consequences and injurious to society and morality.

On the soft bed of luxury many kingdoms have expired.

That's mind-blowing to me that people would say that because you have nice things, you're soft. No, you're soft because your culture is soft.

When people think of the oil industry, they think of Rockefeller, much like when people think of the software industry, they think of Bill Gates.