Albanian Proverb Quotes

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.'

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

The wall between rich and poor is a wall of glass which all can see.

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

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

In America, we have freedom of choice. But some are free to choose between Lamborghini and Rolls Royce while others are free to choose which dumpster they're going to have their meal out of next. Some are free to choose which, you know, homes and farms to foreclosed on, while others choose which bridge they're going to sleep under tonight.

I've been very, very fortunate. I never had to work for a living.

About the only difference between the poor and the rich, is this, the poor suffer misery, while the rich have to enjoy it.

I was very lucky - it wasn't a question of being wealthy; my father was just extremely lucky with the couple of jobs he got. So we got a chance to travel when nobody else could travel.

We are in the entertainment business and we all know if you are top of the tree you get the big money. Those of us who have been in it are the fortunate ones but we understand that we probably don't deserve it as much as the nurses or teachers.

The issue of wealth inequality is ... the great moral issue of our time.

Malefactors of great wealth

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

If class warfare is being waged in America, my class is clearly winning.

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 ...

There are a lot of Americans who do not realize that their financial comfort is a consequence of conditions and programs in this country that made it possible for them to be wealthy.

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

... the wrong and evils of the money-piling tendency of our country ... giving all power to the rich and bringing in pauperism.

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

To make a fortune some assistance from fate is essential. Ability alone is insufficient.

The dirty truth is that the rich are the great cause of poverty.

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

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

The burning issue of our time is the growing inequality in income and wealth in our country.