Anxious Quote by Adam Smith

A thorough: miser must possess considerable strength of character to bear the self-denial imposed by his penuriousness. Equal sacrifices, endured voluntarily in a better…

— William Benton Clulow

The more opportunities there are in a Society for some persons to live upon the toil of others, and the less those others may…

— Anders Chydenius

A miser grows rich by seeming poor. An extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.

— William Shenstone

“Again, of two who act cautiously, you shall find that one attains his end, the other not, and that two of different temperament, the…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

He who before was the money owner, now strides in front as capitalist; the possessor of labor-power follows as his laborer. The one with…

— Karl Marx

By how much one man has more experience of things past, than another, by so much also he is more prudent, and his expectations…

— Thomas Hobbes

The intelligent poor individual was a much finer observer than the intelligent rich one. The poor individual looks around him at every step, listens…

— Knut Hamsun

“Often, people with a Scarcity Mentality harbor secret hopes that others might suffer misfortune—not terrible misfortune, but acceptable misfortune that would keep them “in…

— Stephen R. Covey

There is a fundamental moral difference between a man who sees his self-interest in production and a man who sees it in robbery. The…

— Ayn Rand

He who eats in idleness that which he himself has not earned, steals it; and a capitalist whom the state pays for doing nothing…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

A man's wits are better employed in bearing up under the misfortunes that lie upon him at present than in foreseeing those that may…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The superior man is anxious lest he should not get the truth; he is not anxious lest poverty should come upon him.

— Confucius