Quote#Money & Wealth
The methods by which the Vanderbilts, Goulds, Fields, Rockefellers,…
Quote byHenry Demarest Lloyd · 1847–1903
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Quoted in Henry Demarest Lloyd, 1847-1903, A Biography by Caro Lloyd, 1912, page 53.
English (original)
The methods by which the Vanderbilts, Goulds, Fields, Rockefellers, Mackays, Floods, O'Briens, and the coal and iron and salt Pashas are heaping up enormous fortunes are methods, not of creation of wealth, but of the redistribution of the wealth of the masses into the pockets of monopolists.
— Henry Demarest Lloyd
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