1. “We are the 99 percent.” ─ slogan of Occupy movement.
2. “There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own. Nobody. You built a factory out there ─ good for you! But I want to be clear. You moved your goods to market on the roads the rest of us paid for. You hired workers the rest of us paid to educate. You were safe in your factory because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for.” ─ U.S. Sen. candidate Elizabeth Warren, speaking in Andover, Mass., in August.
3. “My friends and I have been coddled long enough by a billionaire-friendly Congress.” ─ Billionaire Warren Buffett, in a New York Times op-ed on Aug. 15.
As a full-time Wealth Watcher, I spotted some other quotes that should rank right up there. And not all were anti-rich.
To round out the top 10, here are seven my favorites from this year’s Wealth Report:
4.“He’s a wealthy man, a very wealthy man. If you have a half a million dollar purchase from Tiffany’s, you’re not a middle class American.” ─ Mitt Romney (net worth $160 million plus on lesser millionaire Newt Gingrich)
5.“Rather than assume that the wealthy are a monolithic, selfish and unfeeling lot who must be subjugated by the force of the state, set a tone that encourages people of good will to meet in the middle.” ─ Leon Cooperman, open letter to President Obama.
6.“My personal taxes are 53% of my taxable income. That’s 36% on the federal level and 17% for state and local.” ─ Private-equity chief Steve Schwarzman on taxing the rich more.
7.“When businesspeople take credit for creating jobs, it is like squirrels taking credit for creating evolution. In fact, it’s the other way around.” ─ Nick Hanauer, entrepreneur who supports higher taxes on the wealthy.
8.“That would probably be the largest support order in the history of the Family Court,” ─ Manhattan Family Court Support Magistrate Matthew Troy, on Linda Evangelista’s request for $46,000 a month in child support for her three-year old.
9.“As with the onset of sudden celebrity, for the newly rich, the world often becomes a darker, narrower, less generous place; a paradox that elicits scant sympathy, but is nonetheless true.” ─ British millionaire Felix Dennis in his new book “The Narrow Road.”
10.“It only lasted 15 minutes but the flavors will last in the memory forever.” ─ Businessman Carl Weininger after eating his $34,000 pudding.
What are some of your favorite wealth quotes of the year?
Robert Frank
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011年10大“财富名言”新鲜出炉。头三甲都与富人有关，更准确地说，与反对富人有关。
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利昂•库珀曼(Leon Cooperman)
2.“这个国家没人能够凭一己之力致富，没有任何人。你自己建了一家工厂──挺好！但要记住：你的产品是通过大家付钱修起来的马路运出去的，你用的工人是大家花钱教育的，保护你工厂安全的警察和消防员队伍是大家纳税支撑起来的。”──摘自2011年8月美国候选参议员伊丽莎白•沃伦(Elizabeth Warren)在马萨诸塞州安度华市(Andover)的一次演讲
3.“我和朋友们已经受到亲近亿万富翁的美国国会悉心照顾太久了。”──摘自2011年8月15日《纽约时报》(New York Times)刊发的亿万富翁沃伦•巴菲特(Warren Buffett)的一篇特稿
作为一名全天候的财富观察者，今年我还发现了一些可圈可点的财富名言。当然，它们并不全是反对富人的。
下面是我从2011年《华尔街日报》的“财富报告”(Wealth Report)专栏中选出的排名第四到第10的给力名言：
4.“他是个有钱人，一个非常有钱的人。如果你在蒂芙尼(Tiffany)的采购金额达到50万美元，那就不属于美国的中产阶层了。”──资产净值1.6亿美元以上的米特•罗姆尼(Mitt Romney)对身家稍逊的百万富翁纽特•金里奇(Newt Gingrich)的评价
5.“与其把有钱人视为一块自私自利、麻木不仁、需要国家敲打敲打的顽石，不如确定一种社会基调，鼓励抱有善意的有钱人和普通人相互理解，达成妥协。”──摘自投资专家利昂•库珀曼(Leon Cooperman)致奥巴马总统(President Obama)的公开信
6.“我支付的个税占我应税收入的53%，其中36%交给联邦政府层面，17%交给州和当地政府层面。”──私募股权基金首席执行长史蒂夫•舒瓦兹曼(Steve Schwarzman)谈对富人多征税的问题
7.“当商人吹嘘他们创造了就业岗位时，就像松鼠吹嘘自己启动了物种进化。事实上，这个顺序是正好倒过来的。”──支持对富人征税的企业家尼克•汉诺尔(Nick Hanauer)
8.“这可能是家庭法院(Family Court)有史以来做出的最大金额的赡养判决。”──曼哈顿家庭法院助理法官麦修•特洛伊(Matthew Troy)谈及琳达•伊万格丽斯塔(Linda Evangelista)要求给她三岁的孩子每月46,000美元的赡养费一案
9.“对那些一夜成名或一夜暴富的人来说，整个世界往往变得更黑暗、更狭窄和更尖刻。这是一个悖论，难以令人产生同情心，但千真万确。”──摘自英国百万富翁菲利克斯•丹尼斯(Felix Dennis)的新书《狭路》(The Narrow Road)
10.“吃完它只花了15分钟，但它的余味将令我终生回味。”──商人卡尔•魏宁格尔(Carl Weininger)谈自己吃下一个售价为34,000美元的布丁后的感觉
你今年最喜欢的财富名言有哪些呢？
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