Warren Buffett Quotes

The obligation of a society as prosperous as ours is to figure out how nobody gets left too far behind.

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

Men pray to the Almighty to relieve poverty. But poverty comes not from God's laws-it is blasphemy of the worst kind to say that. Poverty comes from man's injustice to his fellow man.

Economic growth without social progress lets the great majority of the people remain in poverty, while a privileged few reap the benefits of rising abundance.

The measure of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much, but whether, as Franklin Roosevelt said, we provide enough for those who have too little.

There should exist among the citizens neither extreme poverty nor again excessive wealth, for both are productive of great evil.

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.

The only way to have a better world and end poverty is by closing the gap between the top and the bottom.

We cannot afford to leave the poor behind.

Haiti's economy cannot be built by and benefit just a privileged few. It must be built by and benefit all Haitians.

Economic growth doesn't mean anything if it leaves people out.

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

The best social programs we've had in this country are those that have united the middle class and the poor.

In a morally adjusted economy ... the rich should not get richer if the poor get poorer.

It is unjust to let any starve, when we think it just to limit the wages of the poor, so as they can lay up nothing against the time of their impotency and want of work.

The distribution of wealth is just as important as its creation.

Unless you’re at the very top, you need a more equitable economy.

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

To be concerned about inequality is not engaging in class warfare.

In a good society, those in the middle and at the bottom ought to benefit significantly from economic growth. When the country prospers, everybody should prosper.

In the United States today we have the most unequal wealth and income distribution of any major country on earth - worse than at any time since the 1920s. This is an economy that must be changed in fundamental ways.

Imagine what would happen if the government were to take the wealth of 200,000 of India's richest people and redistribute it amongst 2 million of India's poorest? We would hear a lot about socialist appropriation and the death of democracy. Why should taking from the rich be called appropriation and taking from the poor be called development?

I see no present solution of a great and intricate problem but that the rich should realize their duty to the poor.

God does not create poverty; we do, because we do not share.

In a system of capitalism, as people's wealth rises, the financial incentive to serve them rises. As their wealth falls, the financial incentive to serve them falls, until it becomes zero. We have to find a way to make the aspects of capitalism that serve wealthier people serve poorer people as well.