Wealthiest People Quotes

#1. Maybe we are the wealthiest people around the world; but we haven't found wealth on the road.

M.F. Moonzajer

#2. Inflation makes the wealthiest people richer and the masses poorer.

James Cook

#3. What the Republicans have said is rather than touch one hair on the heads of the wealthiest people in our country, people who make over $1 million a year, they're saying, 'Seniors should pay $6,000 more dollars a year. But please don't let us ask the wealthiest to do their fair share.'

Nancy Pelosi

#4. Anyone wishing to buy the film rights for a rather large sum can contact my publisher and anyone wishing to put me in the top 100 wealthiest people in the UK, please send cheques or Postal Orders to me care of my publisher.

James Berryman

#5. Friends, I'm angry about what's happening in politics today! Why is it wrong to ask the wealthiest people and most profitable corporations to pay their fair share?

Richard Trumka

#6. All the wealthiest people in the U.S. seem compelled to brag about how humble they are.

Craig Brown

#7. I was shocked to see that some of the very wealthiest people in the country have organised their tax affairs, and to be fair it's within the tax laws, so that they were regularly paying virtually no income tax. And I don't think that's right.

George Osborne

#8. The wealthiest people in the world are those who can give the most value to the most number of people.

Jan Mckingley Hilado

#9. 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.

Jim Wallis

#10. In my view, there is no justice when the 15 wealthiest people in this country in the last two years, saw their wealth increase by $170 billion. That is more wealth acquired in a two year period than is owned by the bottom 130 million Americans.

Bernie Sanders

#11. Despite the absence of Queen Elizabeth II's name in annual Forbes Rich Lists, everyone in the room was aware the Queen was one of the wealthiest people in the world, if not the wealthiest. However, hers and the House of Windsor's assets and income were mostly non-declared.

James Morcan

#12. The three wealthiest people in the world own more than the GDP of forty-eight countries!

Alice Walker

#13. Love is worth so much more than money. There are so many people who are filthy rich, but have nobody to genuinely love them. Unconditional love is priceless. If you have someone who really loves you for your heart, without any conditions, then you are truly one of the wealthiest people in the world.

Suzy Kassem

#14. You know how most people dread a birthday ... Well, I feel the exact opposite. I feel that every day is an extraordinary gift. Just to be here, and especially to be here with you.

James Patterson

#15. I am the wealthiest man, not just in Europe, but in the whole world. I collect emotions. I am wealthy in that the people of Russia have twice entrusted me with the leadership of a great nation such as Russia - I believe that is my greatest wealth.

Vladimir Putin

#16. The American people are screaming out saying it's unfair that the wealthiest, the largest corporations who can afford the best attorneys, the best accountants, take advantage of these special tax treatments that the lobbyists have, along with lawmakers, have cooked in the books here.

David Plouffe

#17. I think people are sick and tired of bailouts, domestically and internationally.

Leonard Lance

#18. All the United States, it is a society that is split like to the bottom, that had very poor people in the country that is one of the wealthiest countries.

Desmond Tutu

#19. Chelsea's players, coaches and agents are now football's wealthiest millionaires. Surely the billions taken from the Russian people by an oligarch in questionable privatisations couldn't be better spent?

Simon Kuper

#20. People who work make the world live better and to reward these people well is normal. Yet they are not the people who are the wealthiest.

Arsene Wenger

#21. The realms of light exist everywhere forever. But it is up to an individual to raise their mind to a level of stillness at which they can perceive these most beautiful realms of light.

Frederick Lenz

#22. The truth is never pure and rarely simple.

Oscar Wilde

#23. My New Year's Eve Toast: to all the devils, lusts, passions, greeds, envies, loves, hates, strange desires, enemies ghostly and real, the army of memories, with which I do battle - may they never give me peace.

Patricia Highsmith

#24. Put all these numbers together and what do they add up to? In a sentence: We are the healthiest, wealthiest, and longest-lived people in history. And we are increasingly afraid. This is one of the great paradoxes of our time.

Daniel Gardner

#25. Let us be clear about our choice. When we raise taxes on the wealthiest Americans, no one dies. When we cut Social Security and Medicare, people die.

Annabel Park

#26. We are the most powerful nation in the world, but we're not the only nation in the world. We are not the only people in the world. We are an important people, the wealthiest, the most powerful and, to a great extent, generous. But we are part of the world.

Studs Terkel

#27. It is an embarrassment that the United States, the wealthiest nation, has people that go hungry.

Craig T. Nelson