George Bernard Shaw Quotes

People naturally long for a bit of the wealth that is whorling all around them, and if the work and education available to them won't get them closer to the comforts that they see others enjoying, the temptation to take shortcuts can be fierce.

Poor people who had escaped from poverty as I had, feared it, hated it and fled from it all their lives. Those born rich could afford to be touched by it.

Choice dependent on wealth; those are the Tory words.

No person can maximize the American Dream on the minimum wage.

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

You have to let the market reward effort and skill. But a system in which inequality of incomes constantly increases over time is worrisome.

France has the least social mobility of any developed country. The social elevator no longer works. It's broken.

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

It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have.

Rich folks always talk hard times.

This erosion of the middle class is happening all over the place. The opening of a wider gap between rich and poor is always accompanied by such a process.

We know that in our free market economy some will prosper more than others. What we don't accept is the idea that some folks won't even get a chance.

In middle-income countries, inequality becomes a problem because you can see there is a layer of people who are doing well, while the poor are still stuck there.

I do care about not 99 percent or 95 percent. I care about the very rich and the very poor. I care about 100 percent of America.

Coming from where I came from, it was unimaginable to ever be wealthy. That was just too far out of my reach.

I don't mind the rich getting richer, but the poor shouldn't be getting poorer, and there should be more people moving into the middle class.

The gap between the rich and poor is widening fast.

The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.

THE rich possess ample means to realize any theory they may chuse to adopt in the education of their children, regardless of the cost; but it is not so with him whose Subsistence is derived from industry.

There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.

If you are poor today, you will always be poor. Only the rich now acquire riches.

When I was a young fellow I was very much disturbed by there being some people with lots of money and lots of people with no money.

The poor should not have to learn how to be frugal and the rich should not have to learn to be extravagant.

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

Surely we can afford to make a distinction between the people whose only capital is their mettle and physical energy and the people whose income is derived from investments. Such a distinction would mean much to millions of American workers and would be an added inspiration to the man who must provide a competence during his few productive years to care for himself and his family when his earnings capacity is at an end.