Although professionals are able to extract a considerable amount of wealth from amateurs, few stock pickers, if any, have the skill needed to beat the market consistently, year after year. – Daniel Kahneman
The tactics of Saul Alinsky and Barack Obama are geared toward wealth redistribution. – Monica Crowley
For people who are at the bottom economically, the world is becoming a harder and harder place. And yet the incentives to become rich are so great because enormous amounts of wealth are being accumulated. And so those two things, that carrot and stick, are beating people along this trajectory of trying desperately to move up in the world. – Mohsin Hamid
It’s clear to me when you do private equity well, you’re making companies more efficient and helping them grow and become more profitable. That success means our investors – such as public pension funds – benefit, which contributes to the economic wealth of society. – David Rubenstein
Even the most left-wing politicians worship wealth creation – as the political-action-committee collection plate is passed. – P. J. O’Rourke
Government policies and regulations in the postcrisis era have aided the hollowing-out of middle America far more than anything the private sector has done. These changes even expanded the wealth gap by making asset owners richer at the expense of renters. – Michael Burry
We would like to have friendly regimes with enough broad participation of their populations to maintain long-term stability, so that we would have not only access to the region’s wealth, but we would be able to ensure the security of our good friend Israel. – Frank Carlucci
My God, I don’t know anyone who likes to accumulate their wealth more than the Europeans. – Edmund Phelps
There’s a wealth of information on James Dean, and everybody has an opinion on him. James Dean made some kind of impression on everybody. – Dane DeHaan
Authentic power is the real deal. You can’t inherit it, buy it, or win it. You also can’t lose it. You don’t need to build your body, reputation, wealth, or charisma to get it. – Gary Zukav
The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought. – Edward Young
In a world where wealth is growing, you can get away with printing money. Doubling the debt over the next 20 years is not a problem. – Peter Thiel
We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power. – Franklin D. Roosevelt
First, one scrambles for wealth. Then, one luxuriates in mocking the effeteness that comes with it. – Euny Hong
Loyalty and friendship, which is to me the same, created all the wealth that I’ve ever thought I’d have. – Ernie Banks
With less competition to fear, companies are emboldened to raise their mark-ups and profits. That lifts share prices and thus the wealth of already wealthy shareholders. – Edmund Phelps
‘Egalitarians’ who complain about inequality view the wealth of the wealthiest as bad in itself: it disfigures society. They would enact a wealth tax to extirpate the offending wealth. – Edmund Phelps
If you look historically, what creates growth and wealth is innovation and investment, and increase in scale – more customers. – Frederick W. Smith
My wealth came from growing businesses. I had wealth, but not liquidity. Basically I transferred illiquid shares of AIC for liquid shares of Manulife. Now I’m the biggest individual shareholder of Manulife. – Michael Lee-Chin
The modern economy isn’t about the redistribution of wealth, it’s about the redistribution of time. – Douglas Coupland
The theater is the only branch of art much cared for by people of wealth; like canasta, it does away with the brother of talk after dinner. – Mary McCarthy
But wealth is a great means of refinement; and it is a security for gentleness, since it removes disturbing anxieties. – Donald G. Mitchell
Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited, and the wealth and confusion man has created. It is a major force in explaining man to man. – Edward Steichen
There’s a loss of autonomy that comes from not being able to own the wealth you’ve earned. – Monica Johnson
I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty. – George Santayana
You’re never going to read ‘The Wealth of Nations,’ and you shouldn’t, really. It’s 900 pages. – P. J. O’Rourke
Nobody has really grasped yet the great wealth that can be made selling data over the Web. There are 100 million potential customers out there. – Michael J. Saylor
