James Haven Quotes

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

I have a feeling that life as a billionaire in Silicon Valley is very different than the life that you or I would lead. Unless you're a billionaire; I don't know your financial situation.

There's no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.

It's not in our nature. Americans have never been a people that drive through a nice neighborhood and say, 'Oh, I hate the people who live in these nice houses.'

Poverty was a relationship, I thought, involving poor and rich people alike.

Choice dependent on wealth; those are the Tory words.

It's quite confusing being one of the less wealthy people at a posh place.

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

Growing richer every day, for as rich and poor are relative terms, when the rich are growing poor, it is pretty much the same as if the poor were growing rich. Nobody is poor when the distinction between rich and poor is destroyed.

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.

The poverty one still sees in America today is more shocking to me than anything I have seen in Ethiopia or Calcutta or Manila, and has made me, as someone living in a society of great wealth and someone who's never had to worry about the next meal, think seriously about what universal responsibility really means.

If everybody lives in the same way, there's something almost narcotizing about it, but the true misery of economic class difference is knowing that you can't have what somebody else does.

Bums are the well-to-do of this day. They didn't have as far to fall.

All of the religions are looking after the poor. At least leave me alone to look after the rich. I am the rich man's guru.

The gap between the rich and poor is widening fast.

The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.

The biggest single challenge to America and our future is income inequality. We've got to fix it.

It seems to me that most people are interested in reading about characters who are richer than they are.

No one should have more than five times the wealth of the poorest person.

Those of us who have been economically successful cannot forget those who have not.

I'm tired of people on trust funds telling people on food stamps how to live.

The wall between rich and poor is a wall of glass which all can see.

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.

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.