It is not enough that we have more; they must have less.
Aug 302021
Getting
You never find people endeavoring to convince you that you may live very happily upon a plentiful fortune.
–Johnson
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.
Jul 272021
You have to spend money to lose money.
Jul 152021
One pays moderately for the item and immoderately to keep others from having it.
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.