Global Wealth Quotes

What I argue for is a progressive tax, a global tax, based on the taxation of private property.

Fortunately there is more wealth in the world than there was at the time of the global economic crisis of 1929 - Chinese, Indian, Arab and Russian.

We have about 50% of the world's wealth but only 6.3% of its population…. we cannot fail to be the object of envy and resentment …

Although women do two-thirds of the world's labor, they own less than one percent of the world's assets.

The terrible, cold, cruel part is Wall Street. Rivers of gold flow there from all over the earth, and death comes with it. There, as nowhere else, you feel a total absence of the spirit: herds of men who cannot count past three, herds more who cannot get past six, scorn for pure science and demoniacal respect for the present. And the terrible thing is that the crowd that fills the street believes that the world will always be the same and that it is their duty to keep that huge machine running, day and night, forever.

The world is rich enought today that the idea of millions of children dying of disease is unacceptable. We have the resouurces and know how to prevent this.

The basic confrontation which seemed to be colonialism versus anti-colonialism, indeed capitalism versus socialism, is already losing its importance. What matters today, the issue which blocks the horizon, is the need for a redistribution of wealth. Humanity will have to address this question, no matter how devastating the consequences may be.

I think if you do have democracy it would transform the world because if the millions of people who die live on a dollar a day, had the vote, they would redistribute the wealth of the world, and the people at the top are not prepared to see that happen.

It is past time to acknowledge that economic growth … is good, and that what the world needs is more of it.

The richest Indonesians have maybe $5 billion. Bill Gates has $50 billion.

China is now expected to surpass Japan as the 2nd richest country in the world. They could become the richest, but that's only if we pay them the money we owe them, and that's not going to happen.

Trade is now clearly designed to favor the wealthiest and most powerful corporations at the expense of the rest of us. The three wealthiest people on earth now control more assets than the combined incomes of 600 million people in the world's 48 poorest countries.

We have about 50% of the world’s wealth, but only 6.3% of its population. Our real task in the coming period is to devise a pattern of relationships which will permit us to maintain this position of disparity.

The superrich have grown worldwide. But America is at the head of the pack.

We know too little about global wealth dynamics, so we need international transmission of bank information.

In my life, I've had estates in Russia, houses in Spain, in Norway, in the deep south of America.

Global new money has houses everywhere, and serious helicopters, it doesn't aspire to the Miss Marple life of St. Mary Mead.

I recognize that globalization has helped many people rise out of poverty, but it has also damned many others to starve to death. It is true that global wealth is growing in absolute terms, but inequalities have also grown and new poverty arisen.

His position makes him one of the richest men in the world coming from one of the poorest countries of the world.

If you wanna maintain 20 percent of the world's income with 4 percent of the world's people, you gotta first of all have more shared prosperity and shared growth.

The differences in income between the poor world and the rich world are so great that people have to be interested.

If I could have just 1 per cent of the money spent on global armaments, no one in this world would go to bed hungry.

More and more, the superrich don't live in one place but many, flitting between multiple homes on different continents, flying to them on private jets, perhaps, concealing many of their real estate purchases through webs of shell companies and trusts.

If you review the commercial history, you will discover anyone who controls oriental trade will get hold of global wealth.

Share and enjoy the fruits of this planet.