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Wealth, howsoever got, in England makes lords of mechanics, gentlemen of rakes; Antiquity and birth are needless here; 'Tis impudence and money makes a peer.
Author: Daniel Defoe
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We do not hear the term "compassionate" applied to business executives or entrepreneurs, certainly not when they are engaged in their normal work. Yet in terms of results in the measurable form of jobs created, lives enriched, communities built, living standards raised, and poverty healed, a handful of capitalists has done infinitely more for mankind than all the self-serving politicians, academics, social workers, and religionists who march under the banner of "compassion".
Author: Nathaniel Branden
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The desire of businessmen for profits is what drives prices down unless forcibly prevented from engaging in price competition, usually by governmental activity.
Author: Thomas Sowell
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In a trader-dominated society, the scribe is usually kept out of the management of affairs, but it given a more or less free hand in the cultural field. By frustrating the scribe's craving for commanding action, the trader draws upon himself the scribe's wrath and scorn.
Author: Eric Hoffer
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Capitalists are motivated not chiefly by the desire to consume wealth or indulge their appetites, but by the freedom and power to consummate their entrepreneurial ideas.
Author: George Gilder
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Commerce is the cure for the most destructive prejudices.
Author: De Montesquieu
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Price fixing does not represent simply windfall gains and losses to particular groups according to whether the price happens to be set higher or lower than it would be otherwise. It represents a net lose to the economy as a whole to the extent that many transactions do not take place at all, because the mutually acceptable possibilities have been reduced.
Author: Thomas Sowell
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When we are in competition with ourselves, and match our todays against our yesterdays, we derive encouragement from past misfortunes and blemishes. Moreover, the competition with ourselves leaves unimpaired our benevolence toward our fellow men.
Author: Eric Hoffer
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Whoever claims that economic competition represents 'survival of the fittest' in the sense of the law of the jungle, provides the clearest possible evidence of his lack of knowledge of economics.
Author: George Reisman
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All mass movements avail themselves of action as a means of unification. The conflicts a mass movement seeks and incites serve not only to down its enemies but also to strip its followers of their distinct individuality and render them more soluble in the collective medium.
Author: Eric Hoffer
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Since man does not create physical matter, those who handle material objects in the production process are not producers in that sense. Economic benefits result from the transformation of matter in form, location, or availability (intellectually or temporally). It is these transformations that create economic benefits valued by consumers, and whoever arranges such transformations contributes to the value of things, whether his hands actually come into contact with physical objects or not.
Author: Thomas Sowell
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Economics is first and foremost about the thoughts leading up to choice.
Author: Gerald P. O'driscoll
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Perhaps the most widespread misunderstanding of economics is that it applies solely to financial transactions. Frequently this leads to statements that "there are noneconomic values" to consider. There are, of course, noneconomic values. Indeed, there are only noneconomic values. Economics is not a value itself but merely a method of trading off one value against another.
Author: Thomas Sowell
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The principles applied in economic processes are general social principles.
Author: Thomas Sowell
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The "human condition" is always to push forward for the better and economics is the study of that process.
Author: Brian S. Wesbury
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American prosperity and American free enterprise are both highly unusual in the world, and we should not overlook the possibility that the two are connected.
Author: Thomas Sowell
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If patriotism is, as Dr. Johnson used to remark, the last refuge of the scoundrel, wrapping outdated industry in the mantle of national interest is the last refuge of the economically dispossessed. In economic terms, pleading national interest is the declining cottage industry of those who have been bypassed by the global economy.
Author: Kenichi Ohmae
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The growing complexity of science, technology, and organization does not imply either a growing knowledge or a growing need for knowledge in the general population. On the contrary, the increasingly complex processes tend to lead to increasingly simple and easily understood products. The genius of mass production is precisely in its making more products more accessible, both economically and intellectually to more people.
Author: Thomas Sowell
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The monstrous evils of the twentieth century have shown us that the greediest money grubbers are gentle doves compared with money-hating wolves like Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler, who in less than three decades killed or maimed nearly a hundred million men, women, and children and brought untold suffering to a large portion of mankind.
Author: Eric Hoffer
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Every era has a currency that buys souls. In some the currency is pride, in others it is hope, in still others it is a holy cause. There are of course times when hard cash will buy souls, and the remarkable thing is that such times are marked by civility, tolerance, and the smooth working of everyday life.
Author: Eric Hoffer
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Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated.
Author: Thomas Sowell
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Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded- here and there, now and then- are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty.This is known as "bad luck.".
Author: Robert Heinlein
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...we see that there are two different kinds of...societies: (a) parasitic societies and (b) producing societies. The former are those which live from hunting, fishing, or merely gleaning. By their economic activities they do not increase, but rather decrease, the amount of wealth in the world. The second kind of societies, producing societies, live by agricultural and pastoral activities. By these activities they seek to increase the amount of wealth in the world.
Author: Carroll Quigley
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What protectionism teaches us, is to do to ourselves in time of peace what enemies seek to do to us in time of war.
Author: Henry George
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Value is not intrinsic; it is not in things. It is within us; it is the way in which man reacts to the conditions of his environment.
Author: Ludwig Von Mises
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The essence of wealth is the capacity to control the forces of nature, and the extent of wealth depends upon the level of technology and the ability to create new knowledge.
Author: Julian Simon
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When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
Author: Kenneth H. Blanchard
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Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
Author: George Crane
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My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
Author: John G. Pollard
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Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find out how to do it.
Author: The Peter Principle
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In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.
Author: Alfred A. Knopf
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The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you ask them a real tax question, such as how you can cheat, they're useless. So, for guidance, you want to look to big business. Big business never pays a nickel in taxes, according to Ralph Nader, who represents a big consumer organization that never pays a nickel in taxes...
Author: G. K. Chesterton
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Only the little people pay taxes.
Author: Fran Lebowitz
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I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
Author: Michael Mcshane
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All currency is neurotic currency.
Author: Norman O. Brown
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In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known -- that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness.
Author: Norman O. Brown
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The entire essence of America is the hope to first make money -- then make money with money -- then make lots of money with lots of money.
Author: Paul Erdman
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Money, the root of all evil...but the cure for all sadness.
Author: Mike Gill
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There ain't no such thing as a free lunch."
A Libertarian Movement slogan - The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, 1907.
Author: Robert A. Heinlein
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The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.
Author: Rupert Murdoch
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Finance is the art of passing currency from hand to hand until it finally disappears.
Author: Robert W. Sarnoff
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Money is the most egalitarian force in society. It confers power on whoever holds it.
Author: Roger Starr
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There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there.
Author: Colonel Sanders
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The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time.
Author: Willem De Kooning
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The rich are different from you and me because they have more credit.
Author: John Leonard
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What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.
Author: Seneca
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Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. It can't be done except by liars.
Author: Bernard Baruch
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90% of the people in the stock market, professionals and amateurs alike, simply haven't done enough homework.
Author: William J. O'neil
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The problem with the person who thinks he's a long-term investor and impervious to short-term gyrations is that the emotion of fear and pain will eventually make him sell badly.
Author: Robert Wibbelsman
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The politicians don't just want your money. They want your soul. They want you to be worn down by taxes until you are dependent and helpless. When you subsidize poverty and failure, you get more of both.
Author: James Dale Davidson
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