Michael Bloomberg Quotes

So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings, goes but to build up great fortunes, to increase luxury, and make sharper the contest between the House of Have and the House of Want, progress is not real and cannot be permanent.

American economic greatness has never trickled down from the top.

Redistribution of wealth has rarely been from the rich to the poor. Usually it is from the poor and middle class to the rich.

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

God help the rich, the poor can look after themselves

The world has grown rich and refined, but chiefly by the efforts of those who themselves continue poor and ignorant.

Inequality is bad for everyone, not just the middle class and the poor.

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

At the end of the day, we have an economy that works for the rich by cheating the poor, and unequal schools are the result of that, not the cause.

It's not my fault that there is this gap between rich and poor, it is the fault of governments. I want a different world. One where I don't wake up thinking I'm so lucky to be able to feed my daughter.

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.

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

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

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.

The needs of the poor take priority over the desires of the rich

The association of poverty with progress is the enigma of our times.

Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term ...to the general prey of the rich on the poor.

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

One must denounce the economic, financial, and social mechanisms and structures that are manipulated by the rich and powerful for their own benefit at the expense of the poor

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

The rich have all the speech they want; the poor have lockjaw.

All the measures of government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.

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

Inequality is an inevitable product of capitalist activity, and expanding equality of opportunity only increases it—because some individuals and communities are simply better able than others to exploit the opportunities for development and advancement that capitalism affords.

The greatest issue before the people—the question of special privilege and unequal distribution of wealth.