Financial Stratification Quotes

Riches run after the rich, and poverty runs after the poor.

We have this kind of revolving door, we don't have a permanent class of millionaires in America like a lot of other countries.

The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend.

We're seeing a new 'Gilded Age,' where inheritance is a deciding factor in who becomes the wealthiest.

One of the reasons inequality gets so deep in this country is that everyone wants to be rich. That's the American ideal. Poor people don't like talking about poverty because even though they might live in the projects surrounded by other poor people and have, like, ten dollars in the bank, they don't like to think of themselves as poor.

I don't think of anyone as rich or poor.

If all we've got is the dirt poor and the filthy rich, the dirt poor would eat the filthy rich.

We must be careful that the people who make $5,000 a year are not pitted against those that make $25,000 a year by those who make $900,000.