Top 30 Wealthy Americans Quotes
#1. Like many wealthy Americans, he was imbued with a sense of civic responsibility
Anthony Horowitz
#2. Many Osage, unlike other wealthy Americans, could not spend their money as they pleased because of the federally imposed system of financial guardians.
David Grann
#3. Wealthy Americans who benefit hugely from a system rigged in their favor react with hysteria to anyone who points out just how rigged the system is.
Paul Krugman
#4. At the same time, Republicans are pushing a $70 billion tax package that will overwhelmingly benefit the most wealthy Americans and actually increases the deficit by $16 billion.
Marty Meehan
#5. We will lower the tax burden on middle class Americans by asking the very wealthy to pay their fair share. Middle class taxpayers will have a choice between a children's tax credit or a significant reduction in their income tax rate.
William J. Clinton
#6. I don't begrudge rich people running for office. God knows that FDR and JFK both came from very wealthy families but I think did more to help impoverished Americans than anybody else.
Julie Roginsky
#7. At one time he [Cornelius Vanderbilt] personally controlled some 10 percent of all the money in circulation in the United States.
Bill Bryson
#8. The only thing I can promise is my best and when I bring my best, you're going to have to bring six people to beat me.
Henry Cejudo
#9. I know what I'm gonna do tomorrow, and the next day and the next year, and the year after that.
George Bailey
#10. As morally troubling and politically charged as the issue of inequality has become, it's not likely to cause a populist revolt. Most Americans still have a generally positive view of the wealthy and, rightly or wrongly, believe they too can make it to Richistan someday.
Robert Frank
#11. Americans are optimists. They hope they'll be wealthy someday - and they're positive they can get one more brushful of paint out of an empty can.
Bernard Williams
#12. The Republicans are wrong in thinking that the rich create jobs. In reality, many of the richest Americans have been investing in efficiency innovations rather than to create jobs. And the Democrats are wrong, because growth won't happen if they distribute the wealth of the wealthy to everyone else.
Clayton Christensen
#13. This has been one of the more comedic aspects of this 72 hours - watching a cavalcade of extremely wealthy pundits, editorialists and political operatives from New York and Washington tell me how rural Americans won't stand for this.
Josh Marshall
#14. Four hundred obscenely wealthy individuals, 400 little Mubaraks - most of whom benefited in some way from the multi-trillion-dollar taxpayer bailout of 2008 - now have more cash, stock and property than the assets of 155 million Americans combined.
Michael Moore
#16. For decades, museums in America, Europe, and elsewhere had been buying recently looted objects from a criminal underworld of smugglers and fences, in violation of U.S. and foreign law.
Jason Felch
#18. Feckless as it was for Bush to ask Americans to go shopping after 9/11, we all too enthusiastically followed his lead, whether we were wealthy, working-class or in between. We spent a decade feasting on easy money, don't-pay-as-you-go consumerism and a metastasizing celebrity culture.
Frank Rich
#19. Do you want to be mesmermized by the physical phenomenon?
Scott Steiner
#21. The Goliath Corporation was to altruism what Genghis Khan was to soft furnishings.
Jasper Fforde
#23. People don't really understand who I am. They always think that I'm very dark or depressed, but it couldn't be further from the truth!
Zola Jesus
#24. If you've been served by God, you've arrived.
Louie Giglio
#25. It would be very interesting to make a survey around the world, from wealthy countries to the most advanced countries to see what influence Americans have had. I
Emilio Pucci
#26. You can never really go wrong if you take nature as an example.
Christian Dior
#27. Great managers know they don't have 10 salespeople working for them. They know they have 10 individuals working for them . A great manager is brilliant at spotting the unique differences that separate each person and then capitalizing on them.
Marcus Buckingham
#28. The federal government has never created one job that is sustainable long term. It creates government project work but not creating real work where people are.
Michael Steele
#29. My newfound motivation had me feeling confident in my ability and I headed to Mackay with a plan.
S.A. Tawks
#30. My deal is have a flat, simple tax. And - Americans want - Americans I hope - aspire to be - be wealthy. I hope they aspire to have a better quality of life. And we have this class warfare that's going on now. And I don't agree with that. I'm interested in people getting to work.
Rick Perry
