Tim Allen Quotes

Boarding school didn't feel like my world, I felt like an alien; people there had a lot of money.

... popular art has no chance of a healthy life, or, indeed, of a life at all, till we are on the way to fill up this terrible gulf between riches and poverty.

Eat with the rich, but go to the play with the poor, who are capable of joy.

Abstraction and luxury are the guard dogs of the upper class.

Sadly, because of the enormous gap between rich and poor, some mothers can afford helpers, but many can't. Those who can would be kinder to refrain from criticizing other women.

I'm not a Mike Bloomberg billionaire.

Growing up on, say, the Upper East Side, you're so isolated. If you go to the Hamptons every weekend, you never talk to a construction worker, and the construction worker would never talk to you.

Aspiration, it seems, is in danger of becoming the preserve of the wealthy.

If no man could become rich in Peru, no man could become poor.

I don't think it's good for people to be born into money and not know what it is never to have it.

About the only difference between the poor and the rich, is this, the poor suffer misery, while the rich have to enjoy it.

I think snobbery is one of the oldest customs in the world, and the rich will always find ways to rank each other and make themselves feel more special than others.

I am a capitalist—a rich businessman and most of you are not.

one kind of affluence: the outward sign of wealth for a small number, the mask of poverty for the majority, and a source of corruption for all.

There’s just too much money in the hands of too few.

God help the rich, the poor can look after themselves

This society cannot go forward, the way we have been going forward, where the gap between the rich and the poor keeps growing.

His position makes him one of the richest men in the world coming from one of the poorest countries of the world.

The burning issue of our time is the growing inequality in income and wealth in our country.

I do think that there is both a very powerful sense of entitlement and a kind of bubble of wealth which makes it hard for the people at the very top to understand the travails of the middle class.

Just because footballers earn a lot of money, it doesn't mean we're not human.

You have to be very poor and desperate, or very rich, or lucky, to live in Islington. We don't have the people in the middle, the people who serve the community.

America has become the most unequal society among advanced countries, and rich people are now free to spend as much money on political campaigns as they wish.

One function of the income gap is that the people at the top of the heap have a hard time even seeing those at the bottom. They practically need a telescope. The pharaohs of ancient Egypt probably didn't was a lot of time thinking about the people who build their pyramids, either.