One pays moderately for the item and immoderately to keep others from having it.
Jul 152021
Getting
You never find people endeavoring to convince you that you may live very happily upon a plentiful fortune.
–Johnson
Jun 222021
Having It All — in which the first word represents desultory acquisition, the second conformity, and the third inability to choose.
Jun 092021
The poor often have money, just not for long.
Apr 302021
Whatever the corrupt practice, everyone does not do it, and to say everyone does is a vicious attempt to wipe from existence those who do not.
Apr 262021
There is only one way to get rich from holding office.
Apr 212021
Billionaires start making trouble when they stop making money.
Mar 252021
Capitalism has been the only loyal friend of the unfit; no wonder they hate it so.
Mar 222021
To destroy a man’s property is to nullify that part of his life devoted to its creation or acquisition. It is to kill him, insensibly and by degrees.
Jan 132021
Between most men and lunacy stands only the necessity of earning a living.
Jan 082021
Justification is a kind of subsidy, and produces, like all subsidies, more of what is being subsidized.