Deng Xiaoping Quotes

I'm not going to do class warfare; I want to be wealthy.

The middle class creates us rich people, not the other way around.

We're running out of rich people in this country.

Our family's fortune is growing faster than ever. We're a part of a small number of American families that own most of the country's wealth. But having so much in the hands of so few can't be good for America.

In every country, and under every government, particular men may be too rich.

American economic greatness has never trickled down from the top.

No harm is done by the possession of Luxury by some people if only at the same time EVERYBODY HAS ENOUGH. The wrong incurred by the rich toward the poor lies solely in the fact that while they revel, the poor starve

I don't think that the rich should be attacked. There's nothing wrong in being rich.

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

In all the world, rich people are very unpopular.

There's a wealth gap that is happening, and that is all over the world, you know? The rich are getting richer and holding a higher percentage of money or wealth that's out there.

Cory Booker became a millionaire because this is how the economy works for people of his class: Rich people give other rich people money to do nothing, simply because they 'deserve' it.

What the 'supposed 99 percent' don't realize is that they are better off if there are more fat cats, not less.

The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.

If we look at the past two centuries of economic history in Europe and the United States, we see an astounding pattern. Capital will accumulate in a tiny portion of the population, no matter what we do.

The messenger matters. When people of modest means complain about inequality, it usually gets written off as class warfare, but when billionaires complain, the problem is redefined.

Social inequality … divides society into two classes -- the wage-slaves and the grabbers of capital

The central issue of our time remains the fact that the rich are getting richer and the poor, poorer.

Oligarchy is to the advantage of the rich. Democracy to the advantage of the poor.

The rich are few everywhere, the poor many.

It is the unvarying law that the wealth of the community will be in the hands of the few ...

For the good of Spain, I should like there to be rather fewer rich people and rather fewer poor.

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

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

There’s just too much money in the hands of too few.