"Making rich people richer doesn't make the rest of us richer."

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Source : "23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism". Book by Ha-Joon Chang, 2010.

Ha-Joon Chang

#People Quotes #Wealth Quotes #Rich Quotes

“The Internet has brought communities across the globe closer together through instant communication.”
“For will anyone dare to tell me that business is more entertaining than fooling among boats? He must have never seen a boat, or never seen an office, who says so.”
“I feel about 18, but my mind is much more mature now, so it's a perfect combination.”
“It frequently happens that an element of the standard of living which set out with being primarily wasteful, ends with becoming, in the apprehension of the consumer, a necessary of life.”
“I started a list of things I want to teach my children, and that list is eight points long. The first one is, do what you love.”
“To disguise nothing, to conceal nothing, to write about those things that are closest to our pain, our happiness; to write about our sexual clumsiness, the agonies of Tantalus, the depth of our discouragement-what we glimpse in our dreams-our despair. To write about the foolish agonies of anxiety, the refreshment of our strength when these are ended; to write about our painful search for self, jeopardized by a stranger in the post office, a half-seen face in a train window, to write about the continents and populations of our dreams, about love and death, good and evil, the end of the world.”

Source : "From the Sixties—I" by John Cheever, www.newyorker.com. January 21, 1991.
“You don't have to be Michelangelo to teach basic art, just as you don't have to be Shakespeare to be able to teach the correct use of language.”
“The bagel is a lonely roll to eat all by yourself because in order for the true taste to come out you need your family. One to cut the bagels, one to toast them, one to put on the cream cheese and the lox, one to put them on the table and one to supervise.”

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