Concentrating Quote by Will Durant

In progressive societies the concentration[of wealth] may reach a point where the strength of number in the many poor rivals the strength of ability…

— Will Durant

“The second conclusion, which is the heart of the book, is that the dynamics of wealth distribution reveal powerful mechanisms pushing alternately toward convergence…

— Thomas Piketty

The concentration of wealth is a natural result of this concentration of ability, and regularly recurs in history. The rate of concentration varies (other…

— Will Durant

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

“Wealth is not distributed by society: it is produced and traded by the people who create it. To distribute it, society would first have…

— Don Watkins

“With the recent demise of totalitarian communisms, and new rise of capital’sglobal reach and power, it has become fashionable to explain away today’s gross…

— Kent Welton

Concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the cycle.

— Noam Chomsky

Inequalities of wealth lead to a dispersion in wealth for all.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The modern economy isn't about the redistribution of wealth, it's about the redistribution of time.

— Douglas Coupland

I actually believe in redistribution (of wealth)

— Barack Obama

There must be something rotten in the very core of a social system which increases its wealth without diminishing its misery

— Karl Marx

It is true that so far as wealth gives time for ideal ends and exercise to ideal energies, wealth is better than poverty and…

— William James