Warren Buffett Quotes

First of all, this whole idea of this one percent versus the 99 percent, it's a false statistic. There's nobody that is wealthy saying, let's go get the people that aren't. First of all, there's no versus. He's creating a false class warfare in a country where there is no class structure.

This contempt for money is a trick developed by the rich to keep the poor without it.

God help the rich, the poor can look after themselves

The competition of the poor takes away from the reward of the rich.

If the upper classes, through their political representatives, pass legislation that diminishes the income of the middle class and reduces services to the poor and further enrich the affluent, this is not class warfare. But if the middle class and the poor, and their representatives, complain that this is unfair, that is class warfare. So say some of our politicians who oppose class warfare.

Class warfare is being waged in America, and the wrong side is winning.

Everybody wants to talk about black and white, when the situation is really about rich people against poor people.

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.

In 1750, 75 percent of people on the planet worked to support the top 25 percent.

Class structures are a luxury that we cannot afford.

The rich don’t want the poor to get ahead of them.

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

Our nation’s political spectrum is not left to right, but top to bottom. People can locate themselves on this rich-to-poor pole for this is not a theoretical positioning: It’s based on our actual experience with money and power.

Liberty is impossible if 36 thousand families at the top of the economic pyramid get as much income as 12 million families at the bottom.

The interesting thing about class warfare is that it's only class warfare if it's up, not down. If you talk about welfare cheats or something, that's not class warfare because it's down; you have to talk about rich people before it's class warfare.

The chasm between rich and poor is becoming larger, and I think it's interesting terrain to talk about and expose.

The world is richer than ever, and the gaps between rich and poor are wider.

You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.

Colour is not the issue in America; class is.

In real terms, there is a greater disparity of earnings between the very rich and the very poor.

And I am interested in the fact that class is very much a factor in America, even though it's not supposed to be.

If we're not going to tax the rich anymore, we're going to create class warfare.

They cannot divide us by saying that you're middle class or you're lower class.

The difference between rich and poor is becoming more extreme, and as income inequality widens the wealth gap in major nations, education, health and social mobility are all threatened.

We need wealthy dogs off the seats of power. They're taking us back to feudalism and I really don't want that. But I'm very far from being a socialist.