“The more divided a society becomes in terms of wealth, the more reluctant the wealthy are to spend money on common needs.”

The facts shouldn’t get in the way of a pleasant fantasy.

Anybody who knows about capitalism knows that bankruptcy is an essential part of capitalism.

Loose money and light regulation were a toxic mixture. It exploded.

It is trust, more than money, that makes the world go round.

International lending banks need to focus on areas where private investment doesn’t go, such as infrastructure projects, education and poverty relief.

What you measure affects what you do. If you don’t measure the right thing, you don’t do the right thing.

Poverty is what we call the extremes at the bottom.

When you don’t have equality of opportunity because you don’t have equal access to education, it just seems so outrageous. It weakens our economy and leads to more inequality.

Economists often like startling theorems, results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom.

American inequality didn’t just happen. It was created.

GDP tells you nothing about sustainability.

When I said “the pocket of the banks,” it is not necessarily a mercenary relationship. It is a mindset.

Amherst is a liberal arts college, committed to providing students with a broad education.

Anybody who knows about capitalism knows that bankruptcy is an essential part of capitalism.

Climate change is a reality.

We won’t have an economic recovery until Covid-19 is under control.

When a man has accumulated a sum of money, accumulated it within the law, the Government has no right to share in its earnings.

A man’s wealth must be determined by the relation of his desires and expenditures to his income. If he feels rich on ten dollars, and has everything else he desires, he really is rich.

We cannot afford to spend millions and millions over nuclear arms when there is poverty and unemployment all around us.

The three saddest things are the ill wanting to be well, the poor wanting to be rich, and the constant traveler saying ‘anywhere but here’.

The revolution cannot be funded. It’s not the imagination of trusts and foundations that’s going to bring real change.

Money can’t buy you loyalty.

I never fight for the money, but every person is different.

I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build.