Charlie Munger Quotes

But the fact is, most people are not going to be rich someday.

This country is very good at creating wealth, but not very good at distributing it.

Too much of the GDP over the last generation has gone to too few of the people.

Half the U.S. population owns barely 2 percent of its wealth, putting the United States near Rwanda and Uganda and below such nations as pre-Arab Spring Tunisia and Egypt when measured by degrees of income inequality.

The world is richer than ever, and the gaps between rich and poor are wider.

You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.

Most of the time in America, we're surrounded by oppressive inequality such that the wealthiest 1 percent collectively own substantially more than the bottom 90 percent. One escape from that is America's wild places.

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

In a world of global dependencies with no corresponding global polity and few tools of global justice, the rich of the world are free to pursue their own interests while paying no attention to the rest.

Let some people get rich first.

I'm not revealing any deep, hidden secret that there are wealthy people in Asia.

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

The rich are richer, and the poor are poorer, in the city than elsewhere; and, as a rule, the greater are the riches of the rich and the poverty of the poor.

We have concentrated wealth and capital to such a degree that the vast majority of us don't have the discretionary dollars to make our economy go and grow.

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.

There are rich people everywhere, and yet they don't contribute to the growth of their countries.

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

Globalization has benefited middle-income less than either richer or poorer countries.

Republicans look after the rich, and Democrats focus on the needs of the middle class. Neither of them looks after the poor.

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

Hunger, the inseparable companion of the poor, is the offspring of the unequal distribution of the wealth and the injustices in this world. The rich do not know hunger.

In the United States you have socialism for the rich and free markets for the poor.

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

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

The biggest drag on global growth in the coming decade will be income polarization.