George Gilder Quotes About Wealth

Quotes about: Wealth

• Hatred of producers of wealth still flourishes and has become, in fact, the racism of the intelligentsia.

  George Gilder

  Racism, Hatred, Facts

  George Gilder (2012). “Wealth and Poverty: A New Edition for the Twenty-First Century”, p.141, Regnery Publishing

• When capitalists are thwarted, deflected, or dispossessed, the generals and politicians,... and socialist intellectuals, are always amazed at how quickly the great physical means of production - the contested tokens of wealth and resources of nature - dissolve into so much scrap, ruined concrete, snarled wire, and wilderness.

  George Gilder

  Mean, Wire, Wealth

  George Gilder (1985). “The Spirit of Enterprise”, Simon & Schuster

• The belief that all wealth comes from stealing is popular in prisons and at Harvard.

  George Gilder

  Belief, Prison, Wealth

• Capitalists are motivated not chiefly by the desire to consume wealth or indulge their appetites, but by the freedom and power to consummate their entrepreneurial ideas.

  George Gilder

  Inspirational, Ideas, Desire

  George Gilder (2012). “Wealth and Poverty: A New Edition for the Twenty-First Century”, p.35, Regnery Publishing

• Entrepreneurial knowledge has little to do with certified expertise, advanced degrees, or the learning of establishment schools. The fashionably educated and cultivated spurn the kind of fanatically focused learning commanded by the innovators. Wealth all too often comes from doing what other people consider insufferably boring or unendurably hard.

  George Gilder

  School, People, Degrees

• [The] zero-sum caricature [applies] much more accurately to socialism, which stifles the creation of new wealth and thus fosters a dog-eat-dog struggle over existing material resources.

  George Gilder

  Dog, Zero, Struggle

• But if the 1 percent and the 0.1 percent are respected and allowed to risk their wealth - and new rebels are allowed to rise up and challenge them - America will continue to be the land where the last regularly become the first by serving others.

  George Gilder

  Land, America, Political

  George Gilder (2013). “Knowledge and Power: The Information Theory of Capitalism and How it is Revolutionizing our World”, p.172, Regnery Publishing

• Most of America's leading entrepreneurs are bound to the masts of their fortunes. They are allowed to keep their wealth only as long as they invest it in others. In a real sense, they can keep only what they give away. It has been given to others in the form of investments. It is embodied in a vast web of enterprises that retains its worth only through constant work and sacrifice. Capitalism is a system that begins not with taking but with giving to others.

  George Gilder

  Real, Sacrifice, America

• Creativity is the foundation of wealth. All progress comes from the creative minority. Under capitalism, wealth is less a stock of goods than a flow of ideas, the defining characteristic of which is surprise. If it were not surprising, we could plan it, and socialism would work.

  George Gilder

  Creativity, Ideas, Creative

• Wealth usually comes from doing what other people find insufferably boring.

  George Gilder

  People, Wealth, Boring

• Most people consider themselves above the gritty and relentless details of life that allow the creation of great wealth. They leave it to the experts. But in general you join the one percent of the one percent not by leaving it to the experts but by creating new expertise, not by knowing what the experts know but by learning what they think is beneath them.

  George Gilder

  Thinking, Details Of Life, Creating

  George Gilder (2012). “Wealth and Poverty: A New Edition for the Twenty-First Century”, p.31, Regnery Publishing

• On every continent and in every epoch the peoples who have excelled in creating wealth have been the victims of some of society's greatest brutalities.

  George Gilder

  Creating, Brutality, Wealth

  George Gilder (2012). “Wealth and Poverty: A New Edition for the Twenty-First Century”, p.139, Regnery Publishing

• The rates of taxation climb and the levels of capital decline, until the only remaining wealth beyond the reach of the regime is the very protein of human flesh, and that too is finally taxed, bound, and gagged, and brought to the colossal temple of the state - a final sacrifice of carnal revenue to feed the declining elite.

  George Gilder

  Sacrifice, Taxation, Levels

  George Gilder (2012). “Wealth and Poverty: A New Edition for the Twenty-First Century”, p.349, Regnery Publishing

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