Stewart Butterfield Quotes

At least in the United States, most economic resentment is not directed toward billionaires or high-roller financiers - not even corrupt ones. It's directed at the guy down the hall who got a bigger raise. It's directed at the husband of your wife's sister, because he earns 20 percent more than you do.

I was poor. When you're poor you work, and when you're rich you expect somebody to hand it to you. So I think being reasonably poor is very good for people.

It isn't the rich people's fault that poor people are poor. Poor people who get an education and work hard in this country will stop being poor. That should be the goal for all poor people everywhere.

I think the sense of fairness in humans is very strongly developed, and that's why we react so strongly to all the bonuses received by Wall Street executives. We want to know why they deserve these benefits.

I was able to lean on people for favors and things to help out because their budget was so low. It was half of what John Travolta's perk package is on a film. Our whole budget was half of what his staff makes on a film.

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

Lawyers are making more money than the cleanup folks are.

The one think I hate about rich people, is that they really think that they work harder than poor people.

I could never understand why our lives felt like a struggle while those living off government largesse enjoyed trinkets that I only dreamed about.

I think theater is the strongest place to find what's missing in entertainment. Unfortunately, it pays the least.

When people listen to Jay-Z, they're working all day or trying to work and pay their bills, and what they hear is someone who's free. Who doesn't have to worry about the electricity. But all we're taught is that those who are rich deserve to be rich because they worked harder than the rest of us, or they're smarter.

California Democrats are out to kill the American dream by ridiculing the commitment to hard work.

I grew up really poor and have always been the type of person who will work earlier or work harder or more than the other person to even the playing field.

I don't see that anybody needs to earn $12 million for three months' work, quite honestly.

I'm constantly embarrassed at the level of attention actors get and the level of money that we get. It's completely disproportionate.

The law of work seems unfair, but nothing can change it; the more enjoyment you get out of your work, the more money you will make.

The workman still is greater than his work.

In all conditions of life a poor man is a near neighbor to an honest one, and a rich man is as little removed from a knave.

It is only those who do not know how to work that do not love it. To those who do, it is better than play.

Today, there are three kinds of people: the haves, the have-nots, and the have-not-paid-for-what-they-haves.

I think self-esteem comes from work.

My father once told me that anyone who worked for three dollars an hour owed it to himself to put in four dollars' worth of work.

In 1985, the top five percent of the households - the wealthiest five percent - had net worth of $8 trillion - which is a lot. Today, after serial bubble after serial bubble, the top five per cent have net worth of $40 trillion. The top five percent have gained more wealth than the whole human race had created prior to 1980.

I believe that dignified work is a value in itself.

Excessive wealth is a great problem masquerading as a great good.