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The greatest crime of welfare isn't that it's a waste of money, but that it's a waste of people.
Sep 10, 2025
The very rich and the very social are, often, the very stuffy.
Think what stupid things the people must have done with their money who say they're 'happier without'.
Once a person stops searching for information and self-knowledge, ignorance sets in.
Work to learn. Don't work for money.
I have found that the more I teach those who want to learn, the more I learn.
The power of capitalism to mediate the gap between rich and poor is pretty incredible. Indeed, I think, year by year, the gap gets less.
The gap between the rich and poor is widening fast.
It's more important to grow your income than cut your expenses. It's more important to grow your spirit that cut your dreams.
When fewer workers have unions, the standard of living falls for everyone and the gap between the rich and poor grows.
The unequal distribution of food is one of the world's most tragic facts. Millions of people die because they have too little to eat, and many die because they have too much.
Yes, over the centuries economic progress has reduced some gross disparities - modern Americans are relatively unlikely to simply starve to death (though it can happen), so in that sense the gap between rich and poor has narrowed. But the question isn't whether society is, in some sense, more equal than it was in 1900. It's whether it is radically more unequal than it was in 1970. And of course it is.
It's not my fault that there is this gap between rich and poor, it is the fault of governments. I want a different world. One where I don't wake up thinking I'm so lucky to be able to feed my daughter.
Diamonds are the tears of the poor.
That divide between the rich and poor is so crazy, because even white kids are suffering now.
Complaining about your current position in life is worthless. Have a spine and do something about it instead.
Sometimes you hear in the United States that in Columbia there is a war between rich and poor, between people that are defending the poor and the rich.
The result of neo-colonialism is that foreign capital is used for the exploitation rather than for the development of the less developed parts of the world. Investment under neo-colonialism increases rather than decreases the gap between the rich and poor countries of the world.
During the Cold War, the West was extremely careful not to allow the gap between the rich and poor to widen too far, first and foremost to counter communist depictions of the squalid masses in the West. But the same remains true today: If the West does nothing about the growing social inequities, it endangers its internal legitimacy.
Both rich and poor nations have a common stake in policies that put the globe on a sustainable development path. The conflict is less between poor and rich countries than between the broad interests of people and the narrow interests of extractive industries. We need to find our way towards some kind of global regime that reduces emissions of the greenhouse gases, but well-off nations need to transfer the technology to make this possible, rather than viewing this shift as one more opportunity for private industry to profit.
The way corporate media likes to portray America is as a homogenous whole that high-five's each other at the Super Bowl. But what we have is a grotesque disparity between the rich and poor that is only getting wider.
Boredom is the keynote of poverty — of all its indignities, it is perhaps the hardest of all to live with — for where there is no money there is no change of any kind, not of scene or of routine. To be able to break out of its dark brown sameness.
Your future is created by what you do today, not tomorrow.
Too many people are too lazy to think. Instead of learning something new, they think the same thought day in day out.
If you want to be rich, simply serve more people.
A mistake is a signal that it is time to learn something new, something you didn't know before.
Sometimes, what is right for you at the beginning of your life is not the right thing for you at the end of your life.
To be a successful business owner and investor, you have to be emotionally neutral to winning and losing. Winning and losing are just part of the game.
It is easy to stay the same but it is not easy to change. Most people choose to stay the same all their lives.
The only difference between a RICH person and a POOR person is how they use their time.
The ability to sell is the number one skill in business. If you cannot sell, don't bother thinking about becoming a business owner.
There are no mistakes in life, just learning opportunities.
When you are forced to think, you expand your mental capacity. When you expand your mental capacity, your wealth increases.
Inside each of us is a David and a Goliath.
People without financial knowledge, who take advice from financial experts are like lemmings simply following their leader. They race for the cliff and leap into the ocean of financial uncertainty, hoping to swim to the other side.
When you come to the boundaries of what you know, it is time to make some mistakes.
The richest people in the world build networks; everyone else is trained to look for work.
One of the most stupid things to do is to pretend you are smart. When you pretend to be smart, you are at the height of stupidity.
Sight is what you see with your eyes, vision is what you see with your mind.
The philosophy of the rich and the poor is this: the rich invest their money and spend what is left. The poor spend their money and invest what is left.
The most life destroying word of all is the word tomorrow.
Success is a poor teacher. We learn the most about ourselves when we fail, so don't be afraid of failing. Failing is part of the process of success. You cannot have success without failure.
In today's rapidly changing world, the people who are not taking risk are the risk takers.
Victims of the violence are black and white, rich and poor, young and old, famous and unknown. They are most important of all, human beings whom other human beings loved and needed.
When I started my last business, I didn't receive a paycheck for 13 months. The average person can't handle that pressure.
And were in the middle of a perfect storm. These days, government social services are being bad-mouthed and defunded. The non-profit world is looking more and more like the for-profit world. The growing gap between rich and poor makes most of us very anxious about where we stand.
...there are two (inter alia) two ways of ruining a society - namely, letting the market "be the sole director of the fate of human beings," and allowing technology to permeate every aspect of our lives. In the United States, both of these developments have converged, creating a huge chasm between rich and poor and pushing us over the edge into a kind of antisociety... While these developments have been widely hailed as the dawn of a golden age, the likelihood is that they actually amount to a death knell, the beginning of the end of the American empire.
An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.
The global HIV/AIDS epidemic is an unprecedented crisis that requires an unprecedented response. In particular it requires solidarity - between the healthy and the sick, between rich and poor, and above all, between richer and poorer nations. We have 30 million orphans already. How many more do we have to get, to wake up?
In an era of global abundance, our world has the resources to reduce dramatically the massive divides that persist between rich and poor, if only those resources can be unleashed in the service of all peoples.