Mike Gallagher 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.'

You [a country] cannot be rich, successful and powerful and still be loved, particularly be those who have little success, wealth or power.

Traditionally the great men of our country have sprung from poor environments; that being so, it would appear we have long suffered from a severe lack of poverty.

With the attention I got on my wealth, I thought I would have become a source of resentment, but it is just the other way around - it just generates that much more ambition in many people.

Money can't buy poverty.

I used to be so angry about the kids that had stuff. Like the kids that had cars, the kids that had money to go get lunch every day off campus. I used to feel so slighted.

I know why they don't like me because they want the money I have.

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

We have about 50% of the world's wealth but only 6.3% of its population…. we cannot fail to be the object of envy and resentment …

People without money are slaves.

Money does not choose people.

Those of us who have been economically successful cannot forget those who have not.

No matter how we name and dissect inequality, we must keep explaining the larger downside of such concentrated extreme wealth.

You can't stand to see your neighbor getting rich. You know you're smarter than he is and he's doing these things and he's getting rich.

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

Greater inequality in Europe has made people less happy.

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.

Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Poverty is not socialism. To be rich is glorious.

One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need the money the most, are the ones that never have it.

Potter is jealous of potter, and craftsman of craftsman; and the poor have a grudge against the poor, and the poet against the poet.

I often say that poverty needs no passport to travel.

Richness in the world is a result of other people's poverty. We should begin to shorten the abyss between haves and have-nots.

Only the elites despise earning money.

This is why I have always said that it would be better if Muslims were poor.