wealth Quotes

If you're a person struggling to eat and stay healthy, you might have heard about Michael Jordan or Muhammad Ali, but you'll never have heard of Bill Gates.

Capitalism has worked very well. Anyone who wants to move to North Korea is welcome.

If I hadn't given my money away, I'd have had more than anyone else on the planet.

We have to find a way to make the aspects of capitalism that serve wealthier people serve poorer people as well.

If you go back to 1800, everybody was poor. I mean everybody. The Industrial Revolution kicked in, and a lot of countries benefited, but by no means everyone.

Some people, through luck and skill, end up with a lot of assets. If you're good at kicking a ball, writing software, investing in stocks, it pays extremely well.

There certainly is a case to be made that taxes should be more progressive.

Living on $6 a day means you have a refrigerator, a TV, a cell phone, your children can go to school. That's not possible on $1 a day.

I remember thinking quite logically that I didn't want to spoil my children with wealth and so that I would create a foundation, but not knowing exactly what it would focus on.

Some very poor countries run great vaccination systems, and some richer ones run terrible programs.