Class Quote by Howard Zinn

The early industrialists were for the most part men who had their origin in the same social strata from which their workers came. They…

— Ludwig von Mises

Poverty, the existence of the poor, was the first cause of riches.

— Peter Kropotkin

I grew up in a middle-class family, my dad was a truck driver with UPS. He made good money, so it wasn't like I…

— Steve Harwell

In the Eisenhower era, when earnings over $400,000 were subject to 91 percent taxes and the world was a smaller place, you could count…

— Michael Shnayerson

The early Rockefellers made their wealth from being in certain businesses and remained personally very wealthy.

— Ratan Tata

“It was in fact during the month of May 1889 that Carnegie was finishing up a magazine article to become known as “The Gospel…

— David McCullough

“Twenty years ago we began studying how people become wealthy. Initially, we did it just as you might imagine, by surveying people in so-called…

— Thomas J. Stanley

Poverty became something one could see and experience firsthand, no matter where one was on the economic ladder; it became something you could viscerally…

— Sasha Abramsky

All riches have their origin in mind. Wealth is in ideas - not money.

— Robert Collier

John D. Rockefeller apparently became more of a tightwad the richer he got. I don't know if it is true, but one story I…

— Robert Kiyosaki

“Poverty, we have said elsewhere, was the primary cause of wealth. It was poverty that created the first capitalist; because, before accumulating "surplus value,"…

— Pyotr Kropotkin

Perhaps you know some well-off families who do not seem to suffer from their riches. They do not overeat themselves; they find occupations to…

— George Bernard Shaw