Felix Rohatyn Quotes
Fairness does not require the redistribution of wealth; it requires the creation of wealth, geared to an economy that can provide employment for everyone able and willing to work.
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I don't think the folks in the low-tax states really want to go into a fairness discussion. Residents of Connecticut and New York would love to remind them how much they pay in federal taxes to support programs for Mississippi and South Dakota.
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My God, I don't know anyone who likes to accumulate their wealth more than the Europeans.
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Wealth won't give you satisfaction; creating a good product that's well received by users is what matters most.
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I take pride in the creation of my wealth, in its existence and in the uses to which it has been and is being put.
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I believe wealth should be in the hands of those who know how to create more wealth.
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Sudden success in golf is like the sudden acquisition of wealth. It is apt to unsettle and deteriorate the character.
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I don't spend any time at all thinking about my personal wealth. I suppose if I had nothing, I might think, 'I have nothing.'
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My alignment is with what I perceive as just and fair. If it's with the Muslims, then I'm with the Muslims, if it's with the West then I'm with the West. It's about justice and fairness.
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I don't like Communism because it hands out wealth through rationing books.
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That the powers of labour, and of the other instruments which produce wealth, may be indefinitely increased by using their products as the means of further production.
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I don't take investment advice from wealth managers. I have grown several businesses from scratch and amassed many millions from my publishing empire - why would I take advice from someone who has never experienced that?
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It would astonish if not amuse the older citizens to learn that I (a strange, friendless, uneducated, penniless boy, working at ten dollars per month) have been put down as the candidate of pride, wealth, and aristocratic family distinction.
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No matter how much wealth anybody has, family problems are about the same across the board.
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My wealth is not a subject I relish discussing.
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Don't accumulate if you do not need. The excess of wealth in your hands is for the society, and you are the trustee for the same.
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In Greece, Italy and, to a lesser extent, France, unsustainable tax cuts and spending sprees added to households' estimates of their private wealth relative to their wage income.
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We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.
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I think when you spread the wealth around it's good for everybody.
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If I were an Englishman, I should esteem the man who advised a war with China to be the greatest living enemy of my country. You would be beaten in the end, and perhaps a revolution in India would follow.
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I hope people find my movies funny and will watch them years from now. And, in terms of writing, I hope that something remains that will not seem old-fashioned, that will still have a vibrancy to it 50 years from now.
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I am not the candidate of career politicians in Washington.
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Fairness does not require the redistribution of wealth; it requires the creation of wealth, geared to an economy that can provide employment for everyone able and willing to work.
