Will Durst Quotes

The fact is that, except for those very few whose wealth is overwhelmingly or entirely inherited, the more affluent have usually worked harder than the less affluent.

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

I never met a poor person who wanted to soak the rich; they want to get rich.

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

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

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

We certainly want those at the top to do well, but if you base your entire presidency and your entire economic platform on helping them do even better, you're missing what makes the economy tick. Because not everyone has been as fortunate as Mitt Romney, you cannot base your whole approach on a life experience as rarified as his.

I don't mind the rich getting richer, but the poor shouldn't be getting poorer, and there should be more people moving into the middle class.

For lots of people who became rich, they believe they earned their fortune through hard work. They don't think about society and only want to leave their fortune to their children.

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

Our rich people are not an ethnic minority. A poor person in Tennessee or Arkansas can say, "I'm not wealthy, but maybe my son or my daughter can grow up to be Bill Gates, or Bill Clinton." That's absolutely not true in countries like Zimbabwe, or Burma, or Indonesia, or Bolivia, where the majority of the people look around and they say, "Everybody who's rich belongs to a different ethnic group.

Like Venice’s oligarchs, America’s super-rich are destroying the social mobility that creates wealth.

I agree that income disparity is the great issue of our time. It is even broader and more difficult than the civil rights issues of the 1960s. The '99 percent' is not just a slogan. The disparity in income has left the middle class with lowered, not rising, income, and the poor unable to reach the middle class.

The beauty of not growing up middle class is that you don't think like the middle class. You don't have anything to protect, you know what I mean?

As a kid, I grew up middle class, but my father was a great innovator with an entrepreneurial spirit, and it wasn't long before my family became part of the infamous 1%.

I think there's a certain sense of grounding that comes from not being a rich kid from a media-elite school.

Choice dependent on wealth; those are the Tory words.

We of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, and probably when we get there it will not be so dreadful as we feared, for, after all, we have nothing to lose.

In all the world, rich people are very unpopular.

I love Romney. It is not his fault that he is the son of a successful governor and makes $20 million a year.

Increasingly, staying in the middle class - let alone aspiring to become middle class - is becoming a game of chance.

No matter how wealthy a few plutocrats get, we can never drive a great national economy. Only a thriving middle class can do that.

Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future.

I would say I came from upper middle class family.

I don't like inherited wealth.