Browsing Topic Best Billionaire Quotes

I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.

It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

Message to the billionaire class: You can’t have it all!

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.

Bernie can only rant about billionaires. Amy has to read the Mexican president’s name. Bloomberg is a mumbling disaster. Warren is lecturing on subterfuge and prevarication. Buttigieg looks like his mom forgot to pack his graham crackers. Biden is just sad.

Capitalism is going to deal itself out of existence, but before it does that, you’re gonna pay $50 for a latte, because inflation is going impoverish all of us before people get pissed off enough to realize that all of the last hundred years of economic progress was actually a shell game to create billionaires, while the great masses of people saw their standard of living eroded and destroyed.

Billionaires need the working class. The working class does not need billionaires.

What the Supreme Court did in Citizens United is to say to these same billionaires and the corporations they control: ‘You own and control the economy, you own Wall Street, you own the coal companies, you own the oil companies. Now, for a very small percentage of your wealth, we’re going to give you the opportunity to own the United States Government.’ This is the essence of what Citizens United is all about – and that’s why it must be overturned.

I know a lot of people in the city, at all levels, horizontally and vertically – and that to me is a privilege, to me as a person but also a writer. I’ve dined with billionaires, and I play soccer with busboys.

American families cannot compete with billionaires. Our involvement in government should not be dependent on our bank account balances

Failure is not the outcome – failure is not trying. Don’t be afraid to fail.

The reaction of weak management to weak operations is often weak accounting.

Unless you’re one of the five billionaires out there who don’t have to worry about anything, every aspect of everything is stressful, no matter what your job is.

What naturally stops you making the film is there is no more money in the budget. That’s really what it is. If you had an unlimited budget, if you were a billionaire and you financed your own movies, then you can either date, because you can sit in an editing room for six years, like Howard Hughes, and never finish anything.

I’ve never worked to make money. I understand we’ve got to eat and all that, but I never said I want to be a multimillionaire or a billionaire. To me, that’s of no significance. I work to have the accomplishment.

If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.

The movers and shakers on our planet, aren’t the billionaires and generals, they are the incredible numbers of people around the world filled with love for neighbor and for the earth who are resisting, remaking, restoring, renewing and revitalising.

It is hard to sell Congress and the American people on foreign aid. Is it harder to do that than it is to sell billionaires on the idea that they should give all their money away.

I want to know in this day and age, whether it is possible for any candidate who is not a billionaire or who is not beholden to the billionaire class, to be able to run successful campaigns.

I find the fact that billionaires are quoted as if the fact that they are billionaires gives them some kind of wisdom is outrageous.

The greed of the billionaire class has got to end and we are going to end it for them.

We’re going to stand with working people. We’re going to take on the billionaire class. We’re going the take on the drug companies and the insurance companies. We’re going the take on Wall Street. That’s where I think the future of the Democratic Party lies.

Trickle down economics is a fraud. Giving tax breaks to the rich and large corporations does not create jobs. It simply makes the rich richer, enlarges the deficit and increases income and wealth inequality. We need economic policies which benefit working families, not the billionaire class.

We have to say to the billionaire class, enough is enough. You cannot have it all. You are going to pay more in taxes.

Are we prepared to take on the enormous political power of the billionaire class or do we continue to slide into economic and political oligarchy?

No president, not the smartest, best human being in the world can do it alone. You cannot take on this, the power that is in Washington, to billionaires and lobbyist, the military industrial complex, all of this money and power, you can`t do it. You need a mass movement of American who are looking in congress and we say directly.

If jazz education in our colleges were free to all it would provide thousands of good jobs in the music industry which has been taken over by corrupt millionaires and billionaires.

After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts.

Let’s also say that the Justice Department and the courts are making sure, as I’ve said in a speech before, that when Jamal sends his résumé in, he’s getting treated the same as when Johnny sends his résumé in.Now, are we going to have suddenly the same number of CEOs, billionaires, etc., as the white community? In 10 years? Probably not, maybe not even in 20 years. But I guarantee you that we would be thriving, we would be succeeding. We wouldn’t have huge numbers of young African American men in jail.

What my campaign is about is a political revolution – millions of people standing up and saying, enough is enough. Our government belongs to all of us, and not just the hand full of billionaires.

One day about 10 years ago the door to my office opened and who walked in but Bill Gates…. Seemed like a nice guy and has done more with his money than most billionaires. But that’s as far as I want to go being kind to Bill Gates.

When your party is controlled by a billionaire rootless international financier who expresses ‘no sense of guilt’ for collaborating with the Nazis, you might want to ease up on lecturing the rest of us about the evil rich.

This is what oligarchy looks like: Today, the top one-tenth of 1 percent owns almost as much wealth as the bottom 90 percent. The top one-hundredth of 1 percent makes more than 40 percent of all campaign contributions. The billionaire class owns the political system and reaps the benefits from it.

Democracy is one person, one vote and a full discussion of the issues that affect us. Oligarchy is billionaires buying elections, voter suppression and a concentrated corporate media determining what we see, hear and read.