Billions Quote by David Harvey

“As of early 2016, the sixty-two richest people in the world were worth as much as the poorest 3.6 billion people! Since the world’s…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Today, the richest 8% earn half of all the world’s income,24 and the richest 1% own more than half of all wealth.25 The poorest…

— Rutger Bregman

In 1985, the top five percent of the households - the wealthiest five percent - had net worth of $8 trillion - which is…

— David Stockman

“Take a population of 10 people, 9 having a net worth of $ 30,000 and 1 having a net worth of $ 1,000. The…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“In 2011, the total world wealth1 was calculated to be $231 trillion, up from $195 trillion in 2010.2 Since we are almost 7 billion,…

— Luciano Floridi

Gates's net wealth is greater than the combined net worth of the poorest 40% of Americans (112,000,000 people).

— Ralph Nader

Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.

— Benjamin Franklin

At the turn of the twenty-first century, the richest 5 percent of people receive one-third of total global income, as much as the poorest 80 percent.

— Zygmunt Bauman

“The wealth of the three richest men is equal to the combined wealth of the 48 poorest countries.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

Between 2013 and 2015, the wealthiest 14 people saw their wealth increase by $157 billion. This is their wealth increase, got it? Not what…

— Bernie Sanders

“The wealthiest people in the world are those who can give the most value to the most number of people.”

— Jan Mckingley Hilado

A person's worth in this world is estimated according to the value he puts on himself.

— Jean de la Bruyere