Sherri

“Another billion people have more than $10,000 but less than $100,000; they own about $45 trillion among them. The remaining 3.2 billion adults have only $6.2 trillion, less than $2,000 each on average. Many of them have much less than that average. Very roughly speaking, the richest half a billion people have most of the money in the world, and the next billion have the rest. The handful of eighty-five staggeringly wealthy super-billionaires are still just a handful, so they own less than 1 percent of this total.”
― Tim Harford, The Data Detective: Ten Easy Rules to Make Sense of Statistics

“When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir?”
― Tim Harford, The Data Detective: Ten Easy Rules to Make Sense of Statistics

“Four hundred thirty-six million people, with more than $100,000 but less than a million, collectively own another $125 trillion. Nearly 10 percent of the world’s adult population are in this second group. Those two groups, collectively, have most of the cash.”
― Tim Harford, The Data Detective: Ten Easy Rules to Make Sense of Statistics

“We must come down from our heights, and leave our straight paths for the by-ways and low places of life, if we would learn truths by strong contrasts; and in hovels, in forecastles, and among our own outcasts in foreign lands, see what has been wrought among our fellow-creatures by accident, hardship, or vice.”
― Richard Henry Dana Jr., Two Years Before the Mast; A Personal Narrative (1911): WITH A SUPPLEMENT BY THE AUTHOR AND INTRODUCTION AND ADDITIONAL CHAPTER BY HIS SON