Decades Quote by Bill Gates

But the minute we went public on the stock market, which is how our wealth was created, it was no longer how many people…

— Anita Roddick

We campaigned on the fact that we were going to have to take difficult decisions because of the state of the public finances. When…

— Theresa May

In that, we agreed with Andrew Carnegie, who said that huge fortunes that flow in large part from society should in large part be…

— Warren Buffett

All of a sudden your whole life becomes a public issue. Money, wealth, people, prestige - all of that suddenly comes into play.

— Christopher Atkins

It used to be expensive to make things public and cheap to make them private. Now it's expensive to make things private and cheap…

— Clay Shirky

We wanted to draw a line between public life and private life.

— Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo

In the '80s and '90s we started to have economic problems because society became more conservative. So we didn't have the wherewithal for expanding…

— Hugh Hefner

Jay and I used to talk about this: we never had a goal of making a lot of money. We had a goal of…

— Richard M. DeVos

We spent $100 billion on education, saving the education system 300,000 teachers who were laid off because of the recession. We also put tens…

— Joe Biden

Following what everyone else is doing is rarely a way to get rich.

— Jim Rogers

We've increasingly lost that sense of community, of the notion that there is something we contribute to and benefit from that is called the…

— Joan Wallach Scott

The 1970s were the height of social mobility. College was accessible. My grandfather was a poor immigrant who went to a public school in…

— Lauren Greenfield