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“During my 30 years on Wall Street, taxes on “unearned income” have bounced up and down with regularity, and I’ve never detected any change in the appetite for hard work and accumulating wealth on the part of myself or any of my fellow capitalists.”

Years Hard Wealth Streets Hard Work Wall Taxes Fellows Income Appetite Capitalist Up And Down Regularity Accumulating Wealth

Author:Steven Rattner

“A gold standard is the ideal monetary system for those who create wealth through ingenuity, entrepreneurship, and hard work. Gold standards are disfavored by those who do not create wealth but instead seek to extract wealth from others through inflation, inside information, and market manipulation.”

Hard Wealth Information Hard Work Standards Ideals Gold Entrepreneurship Manipulation Inflation Ingenuity Monetary Monetary System Gold Standard

Book:The Death of Money: The Coming Collapse of the International Monetary System

Source: The Death of Money: The Coming Collapse of the International Monetary System

“It seems hard for the American people to believe that anything could be more exciting than the times themselves. What we read daily and view on the TV has thrust imagined forms into the shadow. We are staggeringly rich in facts, in things, and perhaps, like the nouveau riche of other ages, we want our wealth faithfully reproduced by the artist.”

People Want Believe Hard Facts Seems Age Form Artist Wealth Views Rich Tvs Shadow Exciting Thrust Nouveau Riche

Book:It All Adds Up: From the Dim Past to the Uncertain Future

Source: It All Adds Up: From the Dim Past to the Uncertain Future

“Those who dismiss rappers as vulgar outsiders miss the way that Jay-Z and Kanye embody the American dream: starting from humble beginnings, both rose by dint of hard work and talent to wealth and success. Jay embraces this role, styling himself as much a CEO as an artist, and he and Beyoncé have become, in a significant way, more fully America's first couple than their friends the Obamas.”

“Let’s begin with capitalism, a word that has gone largely out of fashion. The approved reference now is to the market system. This shift minimizes - indeed, deletes - the role of wealth in the economic and social system. And it sheds the adverse connotation going back to Marx. Instead of the owners of capital or their attendants in control, we have the admirably impersonal role of market forces. It would be hard to think of a change in terminology more in the interest of those to whom money accords power. They have now a functional anonymity.”

Thinking Hard Would Be Force Social Interest Wealth Roles Gone Economic Fashion Capitalism Owners Shed Accord Approved Anonymity Adverse Social Systems Connotation Terminology

Author:John Kenneth Galbraith