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The rich adopt novelties and become accustomed to their use. This sets a fashion which others imitate. Once the richer read more
The rich adopt novelties and become accustomed to their use. This sets a fashion which others imitate. Once the richer classes have adopted a certain way of living, producers have an incentive to improve the methods of manufacture so that soon it is possible for the poorer classes to follow suit. Thus luxury furthers progress. Innovation "is the whim of an elite before it becomes a need of the public. The luxury today is the necessity of tomorrow." Luxury is the roadmaker of progress: it develops latent needs and makes people discontented. In so far as they think consistently, moralists who condemn luxury must recommend the comparatively desireless existence of the wild life roaming in the woods as the ultimate ideal of civilized life.
The creditor hath a better memory than the debtor.
The creditor hath a better memory than the debtor.
90% of the people in the stock market, professionals and amateurs alike, simply haven't done enough homework.
90% of the people in the stock market, professionals and amateurs alike, simply haven't done enough homework.
There are two things needed in these days; first, for rich men to find out how poor men live; and read more
There are two things needed in these days; first, for rich men to find out how poor men live; and second, for poor men to know how rich men work.
Wealth, howsoever got, in England makes lords of mechanics, gentlemen of rakes; Antiquity and birth are needless here; 'Tis impudence read more
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.
Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of read more
Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the economic body - the producers and consumers themselves.
Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.
Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.
The entire essence of America is the hope to first make money -- then make money with money -- then read more
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.
The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment read more
The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.
