My uncle, Mr. Stephen Maple, had been at the same time the most successful and the least respectable of our family, so… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Japan has only 100m people. Asia has 4bn. At least one-third, maybe nearly half, will become middle class, and this is a… — Tadashi Yanai Copy Share Image
In China, you've got six people buying for one child. But the thing is, you've got the largest rising upper-middle class in… — Angela Ahrendts Copy Share Image
My father was in real estate, banking, and land management. As family life, it was very conventional, happy, and comfortable. We weren't… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
Sometime in the eighties, Americans had a new set of 'traditional values' installed. ... the poor and the middle class were shaken… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
I'm a very conservative businessman. I don't work on credit. My father was the guy who taught me how to think straight,… — Stephen J. Cannell Copy Share Image
The beauty of not growing up middle class is that you don't think like the middle class. You don't have anything to… — Carlos Mencia Copy Share Image
My dad was a mechanical engineer and a drummer. We had no money, but I never felt we had no money, and… — Donna Air Copy Share Image
When I'm talking about the white working class, here's what I'm defining: high school degree, no more, and working in a blue-collar… — Charles Murray Copy Share Image
The values that I have are the values I was raised with, from where I'm from, which is a middle-class place. So… — Matt Damon Copy Share Image
I was raised in a solidly upper-middle class family who had really strong values and excess was not one of the things… — Anne Hathaway Copy Share Image
“i was really into communal living and we were all / such free spirits, crossing the country we were / nomads and… — Michelle Tea Copy Share Image
Even when I was living below the poverty line as a novelist, I was still living better than 99.5% of the human… — Jonathan Ames Copy Share Image
Barack Obama knows that to create an economy built to last, we need to focus on middle-class families. Families who stay up… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Americanism in all its forms seemed to be trashy and wasteful and crude, even brutal. There was a metaphor ready to hand… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
In every conversation I've had - with housewives in Mumbai, with middle-class people, upper-class, in the slums - everyone says there is… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
The myth that men are the economic providers and women, mainly, are mothers and care givers in the family has now been… — Gro Harlem Brundtland Copy Share Image
Being a Midwesterner, I know that many of the middle-class manufacturing jobs that had been at the heart of our economy are… — Eli Broad Copy Share Image
I just wanted to be an ordinary, middle-class person. When I was at Cambridge, I made great efforts to lose the last… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
I want to buy them, because historically these have been great engines of enrichment for the middle class, 'historically' meaning now for… — Jim Cramer Copy Share Image
From New Hampshire forward, for reasons that absolutely mystified me, the press thought the most important issue in the race was the… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
When I ascended from the depths of the working class to the middle class, the higher I got, the more dishonesty I… — Steven Berkoff Copy Share Image
As a kid, I grew up middle class, but my father was a great innovator with an entrepreneurial spirit, and it wasn't… — Betsy DeVos Copy Share Image
The very act of becoming an entrepreneur is contrarian to middle class values, study hard, get a good job, be happy with… — Rashmi Bansal Copy Share Image
Solidity, caution, integrity, efficiency. Lack of imagination, hypocrisy. These qualities characterize the middle classes in everycountry, but in England they are national… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Anyone who conceives of writing as an agreeable stroll towards a middle-class life-style will never write anything but crap. — Derek Raymond Copy Share Image
We should not chip away at the protections that have built the largest economy and the largest middle class in the world. — Bill Foster Copy Share Image
If we want to jack up the tax rates on the really rich, the amounts of money that would bring in are… — Charles Murray Copy Share Image
If you go and stop people at a supermarket and ask them for their receipt and say, 'Hey how much did you… — Sendhil Mullainathan Copy Share Image
You know the funny thing, I don't get along with rich people. I get along with the middle class and the poor… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
There are the saints of every day, the 'hidden' saints, a sort of 'middle class of holiness'... to which we can all… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
To advocate both for more immigration and for faster wage growth for the working and middle class is to work at cross-purposes. — Edward Conard Copy Share Image
I can definitely tell when mum has got money because then she likes to go shopping to spend it, whereas dad is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The job creators are members of America's vast middle class and the poor, whose purchases cause businesses to expand and invest. — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
Globalization is stirring widespread economic anxiety, and middle class incomes have stagnated while a class of super-rich has emerged. — Nina Easton Copy Share Image
Government can't deliver a free lunch to the country as a whole. It can, however, determine who pays for lunch. And last… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
When runaway inflation and bank failures struck in Germany in the 1920s, the middle class was destroyed, which led directly to the… — Nick Clooney Copy Share Image
Remember, America's greatness is based on creating wealth like the rest of the world has never known, and then, making sure it's… — Darrell Issa Copy Share Image
You can't make a direct comparison between middle-class African Americans and middle-class white Americans, affluent African Americans and affluent white Americans. The… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
The people who are filing for bankruptcy in increasing numbers every year, it's not the poorest. It's not the people at the… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
