Lead Quote by Nassim Nicholas Taleb Download Open image “Inequalities of wealth lead to a dispersion in wealth for all.” — Nassim Nicholas Taleb ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Lead Money Wealth
In financial terms, my sense is that the distribution of wealth, unequal as it is, is self-perpetuating, and, especially in a linked and accelerating… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Wealth is used to entrench inequality, not to trickle down and solve it. — Winnie Byanyima Copy Share Image
Inequality of wealth and incomes is an essential feature of the market economy. It is the implement that makes the consumers supreme in giving them the power to force all those engaged in production to comply with their orders. It forces all those engaged in production to the utmost exertion in the service of the consumers. It makes competition work.… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share
For my own part, I believe that there is social and psychological justification for significant inequalities of incomes and wealth. — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Inequalities of wealth, unjustly established, have assuredly injured the nation in which they exist during their establishment; and, unjustly directed, they injure it yet… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
If exclusive privileges were not granted, and if the financial system would not tend to concentrate wealth, there would be few great fortunes and… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
Wherever there is great property there is great inequality. For one very rich man there must be at least five hundred poor, and the… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
If our economic system is to survive, there has to be a better distribution of wealth ... we can't have a system where some… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“In a capitalist society there are always inequalities of class and wealth. People who inherit money and property will always see themselves as being… — Sally Wentworth Copy Share Image
Wittgenstein's ruler: Unless you have confidence in the ruler's reliability, if you use a ruler to measure a table you may also be using… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
In politics we face the choice between warmongering, nation-state loving, big-business agents on one hand; and risk-blind, top-down, epistemic arrogant big servants of large… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
My nightmare scenario is that the government saves Citibank once again, as well as the other banks, and business resumes as usual. Then, the… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Using, as an excuse, others' failure of common sense is in itself a failure of common sense. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
You know, children philosophize more than adults - and they are critical of adults. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“Suckers think that you cure greed with money, addiction with substances, expert problems with experts, banking with bankers, economics with economists, and debt crises… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“One needs to go out and buy a lottery ticket in order to win. Does it mean that the work involved in the trip… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Individuals should think about the worst-case scenarios and plan for them. The world will be crazier than you think it will be. Put money… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“If you are looking for your misplaced wallet in your living room, in a trial and error mode, you exercise rationality by not looking… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“Most humans manage to squander their free time, as free time makes them dysfunctional, lazy, and unmotivated—the busier they get, the more active they… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
We learn the most from fools ... yet we pay them back with the worst ingratitude. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
I wish that I had known back then that a mastery of process would lead to a product. Then I probably wouldn't have found… — Elizabeth George Copy Share Image
When you have an opportunity to take the lead and you don't, most of the time something bad happens. — Dusty Baker Copy Share Image
I love making movies, and being in any that I can be in. I'd like to be in those giant movies, as the fifth… — Bill Burr Copy Share Image
I have a soul of lead So stakes me to the ground I cannot move. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Excluding certain problems from the political debate by making it a crime to discuss them won't lead to the disappearance of these concerns, let… — Geert Wilders Copy Share Image
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Trans actors, just like cisgender actors, need to build experience before getting lead roles. — Rebecca Root Copy Share Image
One of the great things about unions is they're member driven and give us the great ability to both lead and follow at the… — Alan Rosenberg Copy Share Image
After years of research, I discovered 25 differences in the work-life choices of men and women. All 25 lead to men earning more money,… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
