Confucius Quotes

Since 2009, 95 percent of all gains in the economy went to the top 1 percent. That didn’t leave very much for the rest of us.

Today, half of the national income goes to the richest 10 percent. In 2007, the top 1 percent controlled 34.6 percent of the wealth—significantly more than the bottom 90 percent who control just 26.9 percent.

The combined Gross Domestic Product of forty-eight countries is less than the wealth of the three richest people in the world. Fifteen billionaires have assets greater than the total national income of Africa, south of the Sahara. Thirty-two people own more than the annual income of everyone who lives in South Asia.

No one should have more than five times the wealth of the poorest person.

It is the unvarying law that the wealth of the community will be in the hands of the few ...

The prince should try to prevent too great an inequality of wealth .... prevent the wealth of the multitude from being hoarded by a few.

There’s just too much money in the hands of too few.

Our revenue laws have operated in many ways to the unfair advantage of the few, and they have done little to prevent an unjust concentration of wealth and economic power.

This country is very good at creating wealth, but not very good at distributing it.

There's a wealth gap that is happening, and that is all over the world, you know? The rich are getting richer and holding a higher percentage of money or wealth that's out there.

If no man could become rich in Peru, no man could become poor.

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

We live in a world in which we're seeing an increasing gap between the haves and the have-nots.

The central issue of our time remains the fact that the rich are getting richer and the poor, poorer.

Until economic freedom is attained for everybody, there can be no real freedom for anybody.

You must keep the wealth of the country scattered, and you must limit the amount that any one man can own.

Actually, the problem in the world is that there is much too many rich people

The distribution of wealth is just as important as its creation.

If exclusive privileges were not granted, and if the financial system would not tend to concentrate wealth, there would be few great fortunes and no quick wealth. When the means of growing rich is divided between a greater number of citizens, wealth will also be more evenly distributed; extreme poverty and extreme wealth would be also rare.

When wealth concentrates at the very top, it can inflate unstable bubbles that threaten the economy.

The burning issue of our time is the growing inequality in income and wealth in our country.

There's not a lot of wealth throughout all the country shared equally.

By 2015, the top 1 percent of families took home more than 20 percent of income. Wealth distribution was 10 times worse than that: the families in the top 1 percent owned as much as the families in the bottom 90 percent.

Half the U.S. population owns barely 2 percent of its wealth, putting the United States near Rwanda and Uganda and below such nations as pre-Arab Spring Tunisia and Egypt when measured by degrees of income inequality.

I think greed is a critical problem - the gap between the poor and the rich. The gap between the top 10 percent and the bottom 10 percent.