Financial Divide Quotes

The wealth disparity between the lowest and the highest continues to expand, and that's inappropriate.

Today’s super-rich are increasingly a nation unto themselves

In a city like New York, you're aware of the rich and poor.

That difference between the rich and poor is growing every month.

The richest Indonesians have maybe $5 billion. Bill Gates has $50 billion.

Donald Trump embraces his wealth. Hillary Clinton wants us to forget that she made $21.5 million on 92 speeches.

This is what income inequality means in America, and why the gap between the very rich and everyone else is growing wider. According to a recent study, CEO pay is now 295 times more than the pay of a typical worker. In 1965, the differential was 20 times. We must create an economy that works for all, not just the top 1%.

Mankind has been and is divided into three parts: the Haves, the Have-Nots, and the Have-a-Little, Want Mores.

This is an impressive crowd -- the haves and the have-mores. Some people call you the elite; I call you my base.

That was always my experience-a poor boy in a rich town; a poor boy in a rich boy's school; a poor boy in a rich man's club at Princeton .... However, I have never been able to forgive the rich for being rich, and it has colored my entire life and works.

The gap between the rich and poor is widening fast.

Well, you can do whatever you want, but just don’t call it inequality. Put the word poverty there. Because we have many rich people on our board, and when they see the word poverty that makes them feel good, because [it means] they’re really nice people who care about the poor. When they see the word inequality it makes them upset, because [it means] you want to take money from them.

The rich are different from us.

The rule is not to talk about money with people who have much more or much less than you.

I'm 40 years old. What I have seen my whole life is widening income inequality.

By some estimates, income and wealth inequality are near their highest levels in the past hundred years, much higher than the average during that time span and probably higher than for much of American history before then.

Real income inequality is what we used to call striving and working hard to get ahead. Striving, educating ourselves, getting up and going to work, preparing, using our ambition, and, in that process, some people earned more and earned it sooner than others.

Wealth is a relational barrier. It keeps us from having open relationships.

There was a time in my life when I was going in and out of houses that were extraordinarily different - from a working-class terrace in Northampton to the homes of friends who were really very wealthy. It was quite an odd position to be in, I realise looking back, and quite a nice one.

The mass of the rich and the poor are differentiated by their incomes and nothing else,and the average millionaire is only the average dishwasher dressed in a new suit.

The middle class has just fallen further and further behind the rich.

In short, it's a great economy if you're a high-level corporate executive or someone who owns a lot of stock. For most other Americans, economic growth is a spectator sport.

As a kid, my dad moved us to the upper town, which was in a higher class of people, and we would see the lower town below. Every day, we could see where we came from and where we were now.

Wealth is so concentrated that a large segment of society is virtually unaware of its existence.

As long as there are rich people in the world, they will be desirous of distinguishing themselves from the poor.