He does not possess wealth; it possesses him.
The wealth of the country, its capital, its credit, must be saved from the predatory poor as well as the predatory rich, but above all from the predatory politician.
The few men who possess the wealth of the material things of the earth at the present time are not truly happy.
Government can't create wealth, but it can create the conditions for private enterprise to flourish.
My own belief is that the way we grow the economy, create jobs, create wealth is in the private sector. The government doesn't do that.
I have always felt intuitively that somehow such wealth cannot be the privy of any one person or any one family.
I have nothing against wealth; I believe that government has a role to play in creating it by supporting pro-growth policies. However, success comes with responsibility.
The materials of wealth are in the earth, in the seas, and in their natural and unaided productions.
Capitalism has proven to be the only system that works, but the problem with capitalism is that extreme wealth ends up in the hands of a few people.
The Puritans were obsessed with the dangers of wealth.
The 19th-century pure capitalist model of society was a pyramid, concentrations of enormous wealth in a small group at the top, a not very big middle-class in the middle, and an enormous percentage of the population in the bottom part of the pyramid.
I was not raised with wealth or resources or any social standing to speak of.
I don't like Communism because it hands out wealth through rationing books.
In the last recession, 99 percent of us have lost wealth, but did you know that the top 1 percent increased their wealth five times? It tells you they create recessions so they get wealthier.
Aggression and forced redistribution of wealth has nothing to do with the teachings of the world's great religions.
The modern economy isn't about the redistribution of wealth, it's about the redistribution of time.
We can't just be the party of redistribution of wealth; we need to be the party of the creation of wealth in communities all over the country, not to just Silicon Valley, not just Wall Street, but all over.
Redistribution of wealth would require enormous amounts of investment. The only time an elite has accepted this has been during crises, such as in America in the 1930s under Roosevelt.
We citizens of the affluent countries tend to discuss our obligations toward the distant needy mainly in terms of donations and transfers, assistance and redistribution: How much of our wealth, if any, should we give away to the hungry abroad?
The question for Obama is how he can rein in the furies of populism while making us all feel the malefactors of great wealth are being sufficiently punished.
