In the last recession, 99 percent of us have lost wealth, but did you know that the top 1 percent increased their wealth five times? It tells you they create recessions so they get wealthier. – Jesse Ventura
Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth. – Jean Rostand
Wealth today has been created by a world view dominated by fast-moving networks, open information, bottom-up entrepreneurialism. – Jacqueline Novogratz
I know people socially who live in countries where the wealth gap is more extreme than it is in America, and they live with full-time security. They live with the threat of getting kidnapped, or they live with the threat of people invading their homes. – Jamie Johnson
The 19th-century pure capitalist model of society was a pyramid, concentrations of enormous wealth in a small group at the top, a not very big middle-class in the middle, and an enormous percentage of the population in the bottom part of the pyramid. – John Ralston Saul
Investing is for wealth preservation, not wealth creation, so first you have to make wealth. – James Altucher
Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive. – John Kenneth Galbraith
My guiding principle is that prosperity can be shared. We can create wealth together. The global economy is not a zero-sum game. – Julia Gillard
People don’t want to have to justify their privileges; they don’t want to have to justify having access to the power and resource that wealth brings. And by not talking about it, they are able to hold onto their power without being questioned, and I think that makes them feel more secure. – Jamie Johnson
To Republicans, I humbly suggest that we make it possible for Democrats to give up their quest for redistribution of income and wealth by our acceptance of an appropriate role for government in financing those public goods and services necessary to secure a social safety net below which no American would be allowed to fall. – Jack Kemp
There’s accountability in the mutual fund industry. And they’ve been tremendous engines of wealth for people and they’re going to continue to be so. – Jim Cramer
In terms of productivity – that is, how much a worker produces in an hour – there’s little difference between the U.S., France, and Germany. But since more people work in America, and since they work so many more hours, Americans create more wealth. – James Surowiecki
Where wealth is concerned, individuals aren’t stuck in little boxes. You don’t start out wealthy, stay wealthy, and end wealthy. – Jean Chatzky
Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honours or of wealth. – Isaac D’Israeli
Building companies involves creating great wealth. If that means I am an oligarch, OK, it’s fine. But if being an oligarch is about buying football clubs, it is not for me. – Alexei Mordashov
Wale means to arrive home. So the crown has arrived home. Akin is warrior or brave man. Nuoye is a brave man of chieftaincy and Agbaje means wealth and prosperity. – Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
Those who have the most wealth and the most property, their children have the first, the best, and the most. – Jesse Jackson
Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain’t lawful tender for a loaf of bread. – Josh Billings
As the earth spins through space, a view from above the North Pole would encompass most of the wealth of the world – most of its food, productive machines, doctors, engineers and teachers. A view from the opposite pole would encompass most of the world’s poor. – Barry Commoner
By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens. – John Maynard Keynes
Follow your passion. Nothing – not wealth, success, accolades or fame – is worth spending a lifetime doing things you don’t enjoy. – Jonathan Sacks
Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame. – Arthur Schopenhauer
People say to me that I can’t be nervous because I’ve had such a wealth of experience, but I tell them that I have never done this particular part before. – Brenda Blethyn
Happy the country that lives on nothing but its wits; cursed be the one that thinks it can get rich by planting or digging or drilling for wealth. – Bono
