Fortune Quote by Jorge Luis Borges

Poverty, therefore, was comparative. One measured it by a sliding scale. One was always poor, in terms of those who were richer.

— Margaret Drabble

The opposite of Prosperity is not poverty. It is anxiety.

— Julia Cameron

The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but…

— John Berger

Poverty is when large efforts produce small results. Wealth is when small efforts produce large results.

— David George

The world at large is less inequitable today than at any time in history. Number of people in abject poverty, as a percentage, is…

— Bill Gates

“Poverty is two-faced—a matter of income and expenses, input and output—and in a world of exploitation, it will not be effectively ameliorated if we…

— Matthew Desmond

“Employers were quick to perceive the relationship between poverty and the chance to earn handsome profits.”

— Michael Perelman

Even today we don't pay serious attention to the issue of poverty, because the powerful remain relatively untouched by it. Most people distance themselves…

— Muhammad Yunus

Poverty is a great cutter-off and riches a great shutter-off.

— Lawrence Durrell

Poverty doesn't come because of the decrease of wealth but because of the increase of desires.

— Plato

The greatest poverty in America today is time poverty. People have money, but they don't have time.

— Brian Tracy

Poverty is an expensive luxury. We cannot afford it.

— Eleanor Roosevelt