Michael Bloomberg Quotes

Choice dependent on wealth; those are the Tory words.

The middle class is so funny, it's the class I know best, and it's the class where you find the most pretension, so that's what makes the middle classes so funny.

The poor generally follow behavior patterns established by the rich.

The mass of the rich and the poor are differentiated by their incomes and nothing else,and the average millionaire is only the average dishwasher dressed in a new suit.

Class is a way of looking at society that divides people into different categories based on how much money they're willing to make.

Texas has arguably the most extreme separation between the well off and everyday people in the United States.

Do not mistake a crowd of big wage-earners for the leisure class.

Perhaps they do not recognize themselves, for a rich man is even harder to define than a poor one.

I don't want there to be this separation between the rich and poor. I may be part of the three percent because I've been fortunate and done well for myself, but I will never forget about the 97 percent. That was me growing up. I was so poor I dreamt about being just 'regular poor,' not 'poor, poor.'

The one class you do not belong to and are not proud of at all is the lower-middle class. No one ever describes himself as belonging to the lower-middle class.

If Eleanor Roosevelt has her way, how are we going to tell the rich from the poor?

I agree that income disparity is the great issue of our time. It is even broader and more difficult than the civil rights issues of the 1960s. The '99 percent' is not just a slogan. The disparity in income has left the middle class with lowered, not rising, income, and the poor unable to reach the middle class.

We decided in the mid-1960s that all poor people are the same: they are all poor. We know they're poor because we have defined a poverty line, and they're all underneath it.

I never met a poor person who wanted to soak the rich; they want to get rich.

The middle class creates us rich people, not the other way around.

The rich are different from you and me because they have more credit.

When the idle poor become the idle rich, you'll never know just who is who, or which is which.

Look, there is a sort of old view about class which is a very simplistic view that we have got the working class, the middle class and the upper class, I think it is more complicated than that.

The middle class, in the white population, encompasses a wide swath.

Democrats don't relate to middle-class people.

This erosion of the middle class is happening all over the place. The opening of a wider gap between rich and poor is always accompanied by such a process.

In middle-income countries, inequality becomes a problem because you can see there is a layer of people who are doing well, while the poor are still stuck there.

There are only two families in the whole world, my old grandmother used to say, The Haves and the Have-Nots.

There are but two families in the world … The haves and the have-nots.

As income inequality increases, social mobility falls.