Fred Wilson Quotes

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.

Choice dependent on wealth; those are the Tory words.

I'm every bourgeois nightmare - a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.

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

The poor generally follow behavior patterns established by the rich.

There are but two families in the world … The haves and the have-nots.

Most Americans seem to be stuck in the economic strata to which they were born.

What is called sound economics is very often what mirrors the needs of the respectably affluent.

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

Economic chasm between people is something that is of interest to me. And something that I used to write about even as a child. It's something I've revisited a few times in my writings.

The rich are different from you and me because they have more credit.

We've never been people that go around and confront people that have been financially successful and say, 'We hate you. We envy you because of how well you're doing.'

When the idle poor become the idle rich, you'll never know just who is who, or which is which.

I'm not normally a jewelry person. I'm supposed to be a working class champion and all, and I don't like to rub my success in people's faces.

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

Poverty is not socialism. To be rich is glorious.

Do not mistake a crowd of big wage-earners for the leisure class.

You have to be very rich or very poor to live without a trade.

I think America has dealt with - I mean, this is simplistic, and of course I don't live in America - but the impression I get is that there is not a kind of obligation to dislike those who are better off or be frightened of those who are worse off.

The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.

Of all classes the rich are the most noticed and the least studied.

What's more condescending and corny than someone telling you how much more money they have than you and telling you basically, 'I don't care about poor people,' which is a large part of what you hear of corporate hip-hop on the radio.

I'm interested in illuminating the enormous disparity between vast poverty and the tiny upper class... This vast inequity is unfair by definition, and I am interested in illuminating that and, where possible, changing that.

In bad times, the rich usually get richer.

An imbalance between the rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.