As income from work has become more concentrated in America, the super rich have invested in businesses, real estate, art, and other assets. The income from these assets is now concentrating even faster than income from work.
People begin to resent the rich only when they conclude that the system is rigged.
I have about concluded that wealth is a state of mind, and that anyone can acquire a wealthy state of mind by thinking rich thoughts.
No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or 'get rich' in business by being a conformist.
Wealth is just consistency... I don't want to be rich. I want to be wealthy.
Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.
Voting is a Constitutional right. Absent any evidence of fraud, all Americans have a protected right to vote, be they rich or poor, black, Hispanic or white, people who live in a big city or in remote rural areas.
My target is to make the players as rich as possible within the financial constraints of the club. My target is not to give them less money. I'm happy to make them rich.
Out of one pocket we pay billions of our tax dollars to support the production of expensive, disease-causing foods. Out of the other pocket, we pay medical bills that are too high because our overweight population consumes too much of these rich, disease-causing foods.
Dublin university contains the cream of Ireland: Rich and thick.
I never had ambitions to see how rich I could get. I got a lot of contemporaries that that's their ambition, and I don't know very many of them that are happy.
Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.
Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.
He who is contented is rich.
China is a place where you can experience two very contrasting things coexisting. First, the rich, cultural history of the country - and, second, rapid urbanization.
There are rich people everywhere, and yet they don't contribute to the growth of their countries.
Before I took the veil, I was ornamented for the ceremony, and was clothed in a rich dress belonging to the Convent, which was used on such occasions; and placed not far from the altar in the chapel, in the view of a number of spectators who had assembled, perhaps about forty.
Globalisation began what should be called the Great Convergence, creating a globalising labour market in which wages in emerging market economies slowly converge with wages in rich economies, generating a steady drop in real wages across Europe.
You don't come into cooking to get rich.
I'm Richie Rich. I land in New York, secretly thinking I'm like the coolest guy in the world.
