“In just 20 years terrorism, communications, the jet plane and the increase of wealth and knowledge have forced, to varying degrees, world leaders into a haunted and secret peerage whose links with the people they guide are meticulously cleansed and staged.” PeopleWorldYearsWealthSecretLeaderCommunicationDegreesIncreaseTerrorismGuidesPlanesLinksJetWorld LeaderJet Planes Author:Hugh Sidey
“The days of looking the other way while despotic regimes trample human rights, rob their nations' wealth, and then excuse their failings by feeding their people a steady diet of anti-Western hatred are over.” PeopleWayHumansNationsWealthRightsFailingHatredWesternHuman RightsExcuseDietsSteadyRegimesFeeding Author:Dick Cheney
“Gates's net wealth is greater than the combined net worth of the poorest 40% of Americans (112,000,000 people).” PeopleWealthGreaterGatesPoorestNet Worth Author:Ralph Nader
“There is nothing wrong with corporations. Corporations are a good thing. But corporations should not be running our government. Corporations are good because they drive our economy, they encourage people to assemble wealth and to risk it and then create jobs.” PeopleShouldGovernmentRunningJobsWealthEconomyRiskGood ThingsCorporationsRisk It Author:Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
“Imagine what would happen if the government were to take the wealth of 200,000 of India's richest people and redistribute it amongst 2 million of India's poorest? We would hear a lot about socialist appropriation and the death of democracy. Why should taking from the rich be called appropriation and taking from the poor be called development?” PeopleIfsShouldGovernmentHappensWealthPoorMillionsDemocracyRichImagineDevelopmentIndiaSocialistPoorestAppropriation Author:Arundhati Roy
“The economic welfare of all our people must ultimately stem not from government programs, but from the wealth created by a vigorous private sector.” PeopleGovernmentWealthEconomicProgramWelfareStemVigorousPrivate SectorGovernment Programs Book:Ronald Reagan Source: Ronald Reagan
“Many people measure their success by wealth, recognition, power and status. There's nothing wrong with those, but if that's all you're focused on, you're missing the boat...if you focus on significance -using your time and talent to serve others -that's when truly meaningful success can come your way.” PeopleIfsWayWealthFocusTalentMissingFocusedMeaningfulBoatRecognitionSignificance Author:Ken Blanchard
“It has always been incomprehensible for me: people are ashamed of the poverty but aren't ashamed of the wealth.” PeopleWealthPovertyAshamed Author:Faina Ranevskaya
“I'm not interested in building wealth, which is kind of naive and probably frowned on, living in America. It's something that people don't necessarily understand, but if I die poor, I die poor.” PeopleIfsKindAmericaDiesWealthPoorBuildingNot InterestedNaiveBuilding Wealth Author:Richard Armitage
“I've often said that I wished people could realize all their dreams of wealth and fame so they could see that it's not where you'll find your sense of completion.” PeopleSaidDreamRealizingWealthFameCompletion Author:Jim Carrey
“In my view, there is no justice when the 15 wealthiest people in this country in the last two years, saw their wealth increase by $170 billion. That is more wealth acquired in a two year period than is owned by the bottom 130 million Americans.” PeopleYearsTwoCountryLastsWealthJusticeViewsMillionsSawsPeriodsIncreaseBottomBillionsTwo Years Author:Bernie Sanders
“We are living at a time where a handful of people have wealth beyond comprehension - huge yachts, jet planes, tens of billions of dollars, more money than they could spend in a thousand lifetimes. But at the same time, millions of people are struggling to feed their families or put a roof over their heads or find the money to go to a doctor.” PeopleWealthMillionsStruggleHugeThousandDoctorsDollarsLifetimeBillionsPlanesMore MoneyRoofHandfulComprehensionJetYachtJet Planes Author:Bernie Sanders
“Just look at that Forbes 400. Takes a billion three to get on the Forbes 400 this year. And the aggregate wealth is just staggering. And those people are paying less percentage of their total income to the federal government than their receptionists are. [...] I'll bet a million dollars against any member of the Forbes 400 who challenges - me that the average for the Forbes 400 will be less than the average of their receptionists.” PeopleYearsLooksGovernmentThreeChallengesWealthMillionsMembersDollarsAverageBillionsIncomeFederal GovernmentPercentagesMillion DollarsStaggeringForbesReceptionists Author:Warren Buffett
“The United States in many ways resembles a Third World country - far more elevated, but it has many of those structural characteristics: the extreme inequality of wealth, the deterioration of infrastructure because it only serves poor people, predatory operations, huge corruption, and so on.” PeopleWorldWayCountryStatesWealthPoorUnitedUnited StatesHugeThirdsCorruptionExtremesInequalityOperationsCharacteristicsPoor PeopleInfrastructureThird WorldDeteriorationPredatoryThird World Countries Author:Noam Chomsky
“So when these people sell out, even though they get fabulously rich, they're gypping themselves out of one of the potentially most rewarding experiences of their unfolding lives. Without it, they may never know their values or how to keep their newfound wealth in perspective.” PeopleKnowsMayValuesWealthBusinessRichPerspectiveSellsProsperityUnfoldingSelling OutRewarding ExperiencesLife Unfolding Book:Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs Source: Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs
“I always read the Latin American writers. I love so many of them: Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez, José Donoso, Alejo Carpentier, Jorge Luis Borges, Clarice Lispector. I also love a lot of American experimental writers and surrealist European writers. But perhaps The Persian Book of Kings was the greatest influence - I encourage people to look at it. There is such a wealth of incredible stories.” PeopleLooksBookStoriesWealthInfluenceKingsIncrediblesLatinLatin AmericaPersianGabrielAmerican WriterBorgesLatin AmericanSurrealist Author:Porochista Khakpour
“I try to look at the evolution of these utopian claims. In the late '60s there was an assumption that the wealth generated by industry would be taxed and then put into social programs and it would provide a baseline of stability that would allow people to have the time for self-expression; and that social contract has eroded over the last four decades and now it's every person for themselves.” PeopleTryingLooksPersonsSelfWould BeLastsSocialWealthFourExpressionIndustryEvolutionLateProgramClaimsDecadesAssumptionContractsStabilitySelf ExpressionUtopianSocial ContractSocial Programs Author:Astra Taylor
“Do more and understand that all wealth came from poor people either as the entrepreneurs or the consumers who buy the product that keeps the entrepreneurs in business.” PeopleWealthPoorProductsEntrepreneurConsumersPoor People Author:John Hope Bryant
“I have a profound dislike for showing off one's material wealth. This is insensitive and it is not what human hearts are made for. But what I like about China and sometimes miss in Europe is the entrepreneurial spirit of our young people, their ambition and dynamism.” PeopleHumansHeartMadeSometimesYoungSpiritWealthMissingMaterialsAmbitionEuropeProfoundChinaDislikeHuman HeartEntrepreneurialShowing OffInsensitiveDynamismMaterial WealthEntrepreneurial Spirit Author:Zhang Xin
“Donald Trump got himself very far to the left. When he was considering running for president in 2000, he was for a 13 percent wealth tax on wealthy people to retire the national debt.” PeopleRunningLeftPresidentWealthTrumpTaxesPercentDebtWealthyRetiringConsideringNational Debt Author:Chris Hayes
“There is just something about the common being. My education pretty much came from the streets, just connecting with people, different cultures. I gained the wealth just engaging at that level. I'm still like that. I continue to document everyday people versus the stars.” PeopleStillsDifferentCultureStarsWealthLevelsCommonStreetsEverydayDocumentsEngagingVersusConnectingDifferent Cultures Author:Jamel Shabazz
“We did a campaign here with New York Times. We had a great ad: "Today in America, someone will kill an elephant for a bracelet." We became sensitized in our society. Now there are four or five billion people in Asia who need to get this message. We need to use social media, print magazines, celebrities - anything we can to share this message. It's not cool, it's not okay. You are destroying beautiful animals. You are robbing a continent of its wealth. And you are hurting a lot of innocent people.” PeopleNeedsUseTodayAmericaBeautifulSocialHurtWealthAnimalFiveFourShareMediaNew YorkMessagesOkaySocial MediaBillionsCampaignsInnocentMagazinesOur SocietyPrintDestroyingAdsContinentsElephantsAsiaNew York TimesRobbingBraceletNot Okay Author:Patrick Bergin
“The reality is that we have one of lowest voter turnouts of any major country on earth because so many people have given up on the political process. The reality is that there has been trillions of dollars of wealth going from the middle class in the last 30 years to the top 1/10th of 1 percent.” PeopleYearsHas BeensCountryRealityEarthLastsPoliticalGivenProcessWealthClassMiddleMajorsPercentDollarsMiddle ClassVotersLowestGiven UpVoter Turnout Author:Bernie Sanders
“People understand that the economy is rigged. They're working longer hours for low wages. All new income and wealth, almost all, is going to the people on top.” PeopleHoursWealthEconomyLowsIncomeWagesRigged Author:Bernie Sanders
“I think there is a tendency for people to become more isolated as they move along a spiritual path. With more development, people get more isolated. Also, as they have more wealth, they get more isolated.” PeopleThinkingSpiritualMovingWealthPathDevelopmentTendenciesIsolatedSpiritual Path Author:Sakyong Mipham
“Art always used to involve spirit. Painters painted spirit. They painted by commission things to go into churches, and that was painting spirit. Or they would paint people of wealth, and they would try to show how they had power, and again, this is sort of spirit.” PeopleTryingArtShowsUsedSpiritChurchWealthPaintingPaintPainter Author:Brian Froud
“Until African-Americans and Hispanics can get serious, not just about area studies, which are important, but also about science and technology, they're not going to generate that wealth and that job within those communities. And that has absolutely devastating consequences for the places where people live, for the jobs and for the wealth.” PeopleImportantJobsCommunityWealthTechnologyStudySeriousConsequenceAreasAfrican AmericanScience And Technology Author:Juan Enriquez
“The baby boomers are out there, they've had a lot of good years of earnings, they've inherited wealth. They are buying trophy homes and will be for years. We are one of those places people dream of. They come here to buy a piece of that dream.” PeopleYearsHomeDreamWealthPiecesBabyBuyingEarningTrophiesBoomersBaby BoomerGood YearsInherited Wealth Author:Frank Lloyd Wright
“The decision is I'm going to do everything I can to fight for the working class of this country, the low-income people against income and wealth inequality, do everything we can about climate change.” PeopleI CanCountryFightingWealthDecisionClassLowsClimateClimate ChangeIncomeInequalityWorking ClassLow IncomeWealth Inequality Author:Bernie Sanders
“Many people who live in big countries like ours thought that we had resources that would work for us for many, many years, but that was a mistake. Our natural wealth corrupted us. In this country, you were among the first to raise environmental issues. In Russia, despite all of its problems today, people are concerned about the environment, and it's become a central issue on the agenda.” PeopleYearsFirstsCountryProblemBigsTodayNaturalWealthMistakeIssuesEnvironmentResourcesConcernedRaisesEnvironmentalRussiaDespiteAgendasEnvironmental Issues Author:Mikhail Gorbachev
“There's one other interesting thing about Western democracy. It didn't arrive at the end point that Karl Marx thought it would that wealth would become more and more concentrated in the hands of the few, that eventually the few would be killed by the many who were deprived, and that a different kind of government would then develop. What happened in Western democracy is that we began to understand that a democratic system can't work if half of the people are starving and the other half are dieting.” PeopleIfsKindDifferentEndsHandsGovernmentWould BeWealthInterestingHalfDemocracyHappenedDemocraticWesternDifferent KindsDeprivedStarvingInteresting ThingsOther HalfDieting Author:John Shelby Spong
“When there's deflation, it means that although most markets are shrinking and people have less to spend, the 1% that hold the 99% in debt are getting all the growth in wealth and income. Deflation means that income is being transferred to the 1%, that is, to the creditors and property owners.” PeopleMeanGrowthWealthPropertyDebtIncomeOwnersShrinkingCreditorsDeflation Author:Michael Hudson
“When people are running up more and more debt for housing, they call that "real wealth." It exposes what's wrong in the mainstream economics and why most of the economics that justifies austerity programs and economic shrinkage is in the textbooks is not scientific. Junk economics denies the role of debt and denies the fact that the economic system we have now is dysfunctional.” PeopleRealFactsRunningWealthRolesEconomicProgramEconomicsDenyDebtJustifyMainstreamHousingJunkTextbooksEconomic SystemsAusterityReal WealthShrinkage Author:Michael Hudson
“There's no doubt in my mind, though, that the Iraqi people would be better off with a different leader who did not waste their oil on weapons, as opposed to education, as opposed to healthcare, as opposed to food, as opposed to roads, as opposed to clean water. It is really sinful, a crime, what Saddam Hussein has done with the wealth of the Iraqi people over the last 30 years.” PeopleYearsMindDifferentDoneWould BeLastsWaterWealthLeaderDoubtCrimeWasteWeaponsCleanOilNo DoubtHealthcareSaddamBetter OffHusseinClean Water Author:Colin Powell
“I think the basis - the foundation - has already been laid for a society where people will work together and enjoy the wealth of the whole nation together. I think this will be accomplished because this is the theme of the revolutionary government's program.” PeopleThinkingWholeGovernmentTogetherNationsEnjoyWealthProgramBasesFoundationRevolutionaryThemeAccomplishedWorking Together Author:Huey Newton
“Hip-hop is more about attaining wealth. People respect success. They respect big. They don't even have to like your music. If you're big enough, people are drawn to you.” PeopleIfsEnoughBigsWealthHip HopHipsHops Author:Jay-Z
“...scientific power is like inherited wealth: attained without discipline. You read what others have done, and you take the next step. You can do it very young...there is no mastery, old scientists are ignored. There is no humility before nature...Its a form of inherited wealth. And you know what assholes congenitally rich people are.” PeopleKnowsDoneFormYoungNextCan DoWealthStepsHistoryRichHumilityDisciplineScientistMasteryIgnoredYou Can Do ItRich PeopleNext StepsInherited Wealth Author:Michael Crichton
“Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.” PeopleWantDifficultWealthPovertyRichDinnerRingsInequalityBellsRich PeopleMake OutAnomalies Book:Literary studies Source: Literary studies
“Leaders of nations, and people whose wealth or fame gives them power over the lives of others quite often do more harm than good.” PeopleGivingNationsWealthLeaderFameHarmLives Of Others Author:Allen W. Wood
“Nine million people - nine million people lost their jobs [in 2008]. Five million people lost their homes. And $13 trillion in family wealth was wiped out.Now, we have come back from that abyss. And it has not been easy.” PeopleHomeJobsLostEasyWealthMillionsFiveNineAbyss Author:Hillary Clinton
“To shift America (and the world) to a cleaner energy economy, millions of people will have to go to work in new industries. This necessary shift opens up tremendous new opportunities for work and wealth creation.” PeopleWorldAmericaOpportunityEnergyWealthMillionsEconomyCreationIndustryWealth CreationCleanersNew Opportunity Author:Van Jones
“People in red states and blue states can agree that we are a nation blessed with extraordinary natural wealth and beauty, which we would be foolish to waste; therefore conservation and efficiency are values we all can share.” PeopleStatesWould BeValuesNationsNaturalWealthShareWasteRedAgreeBlueBlessedExtraordinaryFoolishEfficiencyConservation Author:Van Jones
“I think the critical point, really, is that we need to focus black economic empowerment more on the creation of new wealth rather than on these big deals that have been characteristic of this process in the past, of people going to banks, borrowing a lot of money, buying this and when the shares don't perform very well, the shares go back to the banks, because there's other people who own this anyway. I think we need to re-focus it so that it really does impact on growth, new investment, new employment and a general, better spread of wealth in South Africa.” PeopleThinkingNeedsWellsDoeHas BeensBigsPastProcessBlackGrowthWealthDealsFocusShareEconomicCreationEmpowermentImpactInvestmentSouthSpreadCriticalEmploymentCharacteristicsBuyingLots Of MoneySouth AfricaBig DealBorrowingEconomic Empowerment Author:Thabo Mbeki
“People have no human rights, only the rights that they can gain on the labour market. Above all, wealth and power have to be protected.” PeopleHumansWealthRightsGainsHuman RightsLabourProtected Author:Noam Chomsky
“If there are dollars to be made, you destroy the environment. The reason is elementary. The people who are going to be harmed by this are your grandchildren and they don't have any votes in the market. Their interests are worth zero. Anybody that pays attention to their grandchildren's interests is being irrational. Because what you're supposed to do is maximize your own interests, measured by wealth, right now. Nothing else matters. So destroying the environment and militarizing outer space are rational policies, but within a framework of institutional lunacy.” PeopleIfsMadeMatterReasonInterestWealthSpacePayAttentionEnvironmentPolicyRight NowVoteDollarsRationalPay AttentionZeroDestroyingIrrationalGrandchildrenFrameworkOuter SpaceLunacyDestroying The Environment Author:Noam Chomsky
“That would be nice if [people] stuck [treasury bills] all under a mattress, but they got to buy something with them. Sometimes they buy a treasury note, sometimes they set up sovereign wealth funds. They can do all kinds of things. They can buy our companies here. As long as we consume more than we produce, and we trade away little pieces of the country daily, they're going to own something. Now, they can't run from American assets. I mean every day the rest of the world is going to have about two billion more of American assets than we have, as long as they sell us these goods.” PeopleIfsWorldKindMeanLittlesLongTwoCountrySometimesWould BeRunningCan DoWealthCompanyPiecesNiceProduceTradeBillsSellsNotesBillionsStuckAll KindsFundGoodsAssetsBeing NiceSovereignTreasuryMattressesTreasury Bill Author:Warren Buffett
“While the banks got big bailouts, a sizeable chunk of African-American wealth evaporated because so many people lost homes.” PeopleHomeBigsLostWealthAfrican AmericanChunksBailouts Author:Julianne Malveaux
“The wiping out of millions of homes took away Black and Brown wealth. It drove poverty, it drove unemployment, it drove people to food stamps.” PeopleHomeBlackWealthPovertyMillionsBrownUnemploymentStampsFood StampsWiping Out Author:Jesse Jackson
“People work hard and companies make big profits, but employees don't see that they share in the wealth they help to create.” PeopleHardHelpingBigsWealthCompanyShareHard WorkProfitEmployee Author:Mariana Mazzucato
“Books were rare,expensive, time-consuming to create and copy, and difficult to transport. That is why collections ofprint-based books developed around centers of religious belief, learning, and wealth. It was cheaper andeasier for people to come to the collection than for the collection, or parts of the collection, to go to thepeople.” PeopleBookBeliefDifficultReligiousWealthExpensiveCollectionsCopiesConsumingCheaperTransportReligious BeliefTime Consuming Author:Tom Peters