Sentences with phrase «really wealthy people»

Really wealthy people in recent years have increasingly funded networks of nonprofits to push an agenda, Reich said.

«Fortunately New York has an enormous number of really wealthy people who will contribute a substantial part of the cost and as a result 98 percent of New Yorkers would be spending less than they are today,» said Assemblyman Richard Gottfried.

This quote from The Great Gatsby is usually trotted out in news stories that report some appalling excess of some really wealthy person.

Not exact matches

The wealthiest and most successful people know that the keys to any negotiation are threefold: First, understand what the other side really wants.

(And let's keep in mind: All the people fighting here — however awful — are probably going to get really wealthy regardless of the CEO outcome.)

But given that most of us Americans are the wealthiest people on the planet, and given that we're surrounded by people who are starving to death, we need to seriously question whether we're really listening to and obeying God if we're keeping 97 % of our wealth for ourselves.

I really hope you understand that just because he was born wealthy that doesn't mean he doesn't understand people.

I knew when Bush cited the 1,000 points of light he really meant for people to take over care of the poor to let government i.e. wealthy tax payers off the hook.

And, while the causes chosen by wealthy old people to advance may not exactly match societal needs, tax funds can fill the gaps that no one wealthy was interested in donating to at death, so it doesn't really matter all that much exactly what charitable legacies the rich leave, even though they and their heirs can feel good about the charitable legacies that they do leave.

«I really in many ways am a very private person,» he said, sitting in a basement room after an address to Central's wealthy and prominent congregation.

«The primaries were all about that and the platform resulted from these primaries and then the discussion of the powerful ideas, raising taxes on the wealthy, increasing wages and benefits, things like paid family leave, paid sick leave, things that really would have resonated with so many people hurting in this country,» de Blasio told NY1's Errol Louis in his weekly «Mondays with the Mayor» segment.

Isn't that really «New Yorkers For Constitutional Freedoms for Straight, White, Wealthy People and Everyone Else can Go Scratch?»

«There are some very wealthy people who want to open up the constitution and really undo some of the protections for labor.

MeetingMillionaires.com has a really clean interface that seems to scream that it's designed for wealthy people and that they know how to do it right.

If you're wealthy and getting involved in the dating world this app can help you find people that share your level of success — with other dating apps you never really know what walk of life someone's from until you take the time to get to know them.

There's such an impression that Harvard is a really elite school full of nerdy people from wealthy families who went to prep schools.

I am not sure if Elsa is really a good student if one is measuring by standardized test scores and / or performance on classroom exams, but she could be one of those students who becomes a success in life — like some corporate founders and wealthy people who simply followed their dreams and desires.

i agree that paying off your mortgage can be nice from an emotional perspective, but even the «really wealthy» people generally don't make it their # 1 priority.

Although money will not provide happiness by itself (I've met a lot of really happy people in third world countries as well as unhappy wealthy individuals), it can help us to provide financial security for ourselves and our families, help others in need, support worthwhile causes, and provide us with enriching opportunities.

3:51 «It was in the Fifties that the alternative minimum tax came into play, and that was really designed for the wealthiest of people.»

And the funny part was that you couldn't tell if these people were really from wealthy families or really poor ones.

Is it really to the advantage of most Australian's that we take no, or very little, action on climate change, or is it just to the short - term advantage of a few wealthy people and the politicians who pander to them?

Until you realise that the wealthy, scared denial machine is really working, at least on some people.

Wealthy nations (mostly wealthy people, really) are quickly burning through this carbon budget, leaving us with fewer and fewer options for the future except for a completely carbon - free sWealthy nations (mostly wealthy people, really) are quickly burning through this carbon budget, leaving us with fewer and fewer options for the future except for a completely carbon - free swealthy people, really) are quickly burning through this carbon budget, leaving us with fewer and fewer options for the future except for a completely carbon - free society.

It's a hybrid between insurance and investment portfolio that really only makes sense for the wealthiest people as part of a larger, comprehensive financial plan.

Even scholar Mavis Hetherington is not spared DePaulo's conscientious scrutiny and critical thinking: «The first few times I saw such «happily» statements, I thought they were just sloppy writing errors... Hetherington and her coauthor John Kelly, for example, noted that «happily married couples are healthier, happier, wealthier, and sexier...» Did they really mean to say that married people are happier than single people, as long as you include among the married people only those who are happy?

If you really believe that, then your subconscious mind would be working against you because it does not want you to become a wealthy person.