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.
Quotes to Explore
-
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.
-
My God, I don't know anyone who likes to accumulate their wealth more than the Europeans.
-
Wealth won't give you satisfaction; creating a good product that's well received by users is what matters most.
-
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.
-
I believe wealth should be in the hands of those who know how to create more wealth.
-
Online, you can become much more than a reactive donor - you can become a proactive, strategic, collaborative philanthropist, improving your giving every day by tapping into the wealth of philanthropic resources available at the tap of a keyboard or the click of a mouse.
-
Sudden success in golf is like the sudden acquisition of wealth. It is apt to unsettle and deteriorate the character.
-
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.'
-
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.
-
I don't like Communism because it hands out wealth through rationing books.
-
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.
-
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?
-
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.
-
No matter how much wealth anybody has, family problems are about the same across the board.
-
My wealth is not a subject I relish discussing.
-
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.
-
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.
-
We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.
-
A society which reverences the attainment of riches as the supreme felicity will naturally be disposed to regard the poor as damned ... if only to justify itself for making their life a hell.
-
I distributed my wealth among my children and set aside a portion for endowment to run charity projects.
-
Every time I make American film I just trust American directors and American writers.
-
There's a huge misconception that innovation is mostly about inventing or coming up with cool new things. More often than not, innovation is about figuring out what people really need or want but can't have or afford.
-
What the ocean was to the child, the Periodic Table is to the chemist.
-
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.
