Billionaire Quotes - Page 7

• Getting the job done has been the basis for the success my company has achieved.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Jobs, Inspiration, Done

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• What's happening is there's transfer of wealth from the poor and the middle class to the wealthy. This comes about because of the monetary system that we have. When you inflate a currency or destroy a currency, the middle class gets wiped out, so the people who get to use the money first, which is created by the Federal Reserve System, benefit, so the money gravitates to the banks and to Wall Street. That's why you have more billionaires than ever before.

  Ron Paul

  Money, Wall, Class

  Republican Presidential debate in Dearborn, Mich., www.nytimes.com. October 9, 2007.

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• 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.

  Terence McKenna

  Years, Games, People

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• In the next 15 or 20 years, I hope I'll be the richest man in the world. That's one of my goals. I want to be a billionaire. I want to get to a position where generation on generation don't have to worry about nothing. I don't want family members from my kids to my son's kids to never have to worry. And I can't do that now just playing basketball.

  LeBron James

  Basketball, Inspiration, Kids

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• What does a political revolution look like? It means that 80 percent of the people vote in national elections, not 40 percent. It means that billionaires can't make unlimited campaign contributions and buy and sell politicians. It means that the U.S. government represents the needs of all the people, not just the 1 percent and their lobbyists.

  Bernie Sanders

  Mean, Government, Political Revolution

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

  Bernie Sanders

  Class, Messages

  Bernie Sanders (2016). “Our Revolution: A Future to Believe in”, p.221, Profile Books

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• The economy that leads the world will be the one with the most millionaires and billionaires.

  James Cook

  World, Economy, Millionaire

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• 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.

  Bernie Sanders

  Class, Political, Campaigns

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• If success or failure of this planet and of human beings depended on how I am and what I do... How would I be? What would I do? We may now care for each Earthian individual at a sustainable billionaire's level of affluence while living exclusively on less than 1 percent of our planet's daily energy income from our cosmically designed nuclear reactor, the Sun, optimally located 92 million safe miles away from us.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Care, May, Safe

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• Income and wealth inequality have reached obscene levels, the threat of climate change is more frightening than ever, and the billionaire class is now allowed to spend unlimited amounts of money to buy the candidate they want. And it is up to us to stand up and fight back. If we stand together, there is no limit to what we can accomplish.

  Bernie Sanders

  Fighting, Class, Together

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• I think what the American people are saying is enough is enough. This country, this great country, belongs to all of us. It cannot continue to be controlled by a handful of billionaires who apparently want it all.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, Thinking, People

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• We need a growing middle class, not one that has been disappearing for 40 years. We need a vibrant one person-one vote democracy, not one which is dominated by billionaire campaign contributors. It's time for a political revolution. It's time to make our government work for all of us, and not just the 1%.

  Bernie Sanders

  Political Revolution, Years, Class

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• The 'Billionaire' song is what my kids tease me with. They sing it to me. It's funny.

  Bill Gates

  Song, Kids, Tease

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• Winners never quit and quitters never win.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Positive, Moving On

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• I believe that the role of limited government should be looking after the needs of veterans, the elderly, children and those institutions that improve the quality of life for struggling families - I don't believe that government should bend to serve the needs of subsidized multi-national corporations and entitled billionaires.

  Moby

  Veterans Day, Children, Believe

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• I think that's the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.

  Elon Musk

  Success, Inspiration, Thinking

  "Elon Musk: Secrets of a Highly Effective Entrepreneur" by Interview with Lance Ulanoff, mashable.com. April 13, 2012.

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• Congress is the great enabler, constitutionally, for progressive society, and it's the great graveyard, the way it's been behaving, against a prosperous society, or another billionaire or two.

  Ralph Nader

  Two, Progressive Society, Way

  Source: www.democracynow.org

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• We have undocumented immigrants in America who are paying more federal income tax than a billionaire. I find that just astonishing.

  Hillary Clinton

  America, Income, Undocumented Immigrants

  The third presidential debate between Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Donald J. Trump, www.nytimes.com. October 20, 2016.

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• The billionaires and their super PACs increasingly control the American political process. This is not democracy. This is not what brave Americans fought and died to defend. This is oligarchy. This is government of the few, by the few and for the few. We must overturn Citizen United and move to public funding of elections.

  Bernie Sanders

  Moving, Government, Brave

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• 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.

  Bernie Sanders

  Media, Issues, Democracy

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• It wasn't an excuse. It was a fact. He'd had to make his way alone, and no one - not rock stars, not professional athletes, not software billionaires, and not even geniuses - ever makes it alone.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Stars, Athlete, Rocks

  "Outliers: The Story of Success". Book by Malcolm Gladwell, November 18, 2008.

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• I got in before SoHo was SoHo. It was just Little Italy when I was in there. It's still off the touristy track. It's just away from the Saturday action, the crowds and everything. It's too expensive. It's insane. You've got to be a billionaire to live on Manhattan now.

  Joni Mitchell

  Track, Insane, Manhattan

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• 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.

  Ann Coulter

  Party, Evil, Guilt

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• What kind of nation are we when we give tax breaks to billionaires, but we can't take care of the elderly and the children.

  Bernie Sanders

  Children, Elderly, Giving

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• Tiger Woods is a billionaire. Do you know how much ass you can get with a billion dollars? I know guys with $20 and a pack of Newports who'd try to screw your whole neighborhood.

  Donnell Rawlings

  Guy, Trying, Woods

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