Every great racket begins as a business, becomes a movement, and eventually degenerates into a cause.
Jan 122022
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You never find people endeavoring to convince you that you may live very happily upon a plentiful fortune.
–Johnson
Jan 052022
Some respect is due the man who sells himself dear.
Dec 212021
A large reputation, like an impetus in a vacuum, can, in the absence of a countervailing force, be coasted on forever.
Dec 202021
The ambitious man believes, with perfect sincerity, in whatever furthers his ambition.
Oct 212021
Every charitable foundation does more harm than good, if it lasts long enough, eventually falling into the hands of people who wish to run charitable foundations.
Oct 062021
Big business has long aspired to be big government’s executor, and it nears its end.
Aug 302021
It is not enough that we have more; they must have less.
Aug 242021
If you fear giant multinational corporations, bent only on turning a profit, just wait until they develop other interests.
Aug 092021
Our ancestors attributed to the gods the vicissitudes of the weather, and we attribute to the President the vicissitudes of the stock market.
Aug 062021
We are to the immense wealth that swaddles us and the conditions that produced it as a fish to water — scarcely aware of it and shortly dead without it.