Accumulating wealth Quote by Steven Rattner

My experience indicates that most people who've accumulated a great deal of wealth haven't had that as their goal at all. Wealth is only…

— Michael Milken

I once was poor myself. I worked to get where I am today and I've worked hard to spend $100,000 a year on my…

— Liberace

For too long, tricks and traps in mortgages, credit cards, and other financial transactions have stripped wealth from working families.

— Jeff Merkley

I'm a capitalist, and I believe that universal basic income is necessary for capitalism to continue.

— Andrew Yang

I found the road to wealth when I decided that a part of all I earned was mine to keep.

— George S. Clason

We have an idea that if something we're doing isn't actually earning money, or spending it, then it's completely worthless. But if you start…

— Tom Hodgkinson

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

“We have created a society in which all the nation’s economic gains flow to the top and the vast majority sees income stagnation or…

— David Cay Johnston

Status based on wealth is an old-fashioned idea; I find it repugnant, actually.

— Ian Schrager

There is no escaping the fact that when the taxation of large incomes is excessive, they tend to disappear.

— Calvin Coolidge

No, I have no desire for riches. Honest poverty and a conscience, torpid through virtuous inaction, are more to me than corner lots and…

— Mark Twain

“Many ordinary Americans believe that “large differences in income are necessary for America’s prosperity,” as one standard survey question puts it.18 However, economists who…

— Larry M. Bartels