Active Quote by Alexander Hamilton

Gold laboreth diligently and contentedly for the wise owner who finds for it profitable employment, multiplying even as the flocks of the field.

— The Richest Man In Babylon

“It is not from their intrinsic nature that goods gain the character of economic goods, but through their relation to men and through their…

— Sandye Gloria-Palermo

A great merchant delivers both joy and profit. Then profit gets reinvested in more joy.

— Andy Dunn

We have continued reason to express our profound gratitude to the Great Creator of All Things for numberless benefits conferred upon us as a…

— John Tyler

Men were created for something better than merely to make money. A close application to business, until a competence is gained, is one of…

— Christian Nestell Bovee

“As to the essence of Commerce and Manufacture, it is this: to establish bonds between every corner of the earth’s surface and every other…

— Voltairine de Cleyre

“In all buying, consider, first, what condition of existence you cause in the producers of what you buy; secondly, whether the sum you have…

— John Ruskin

“Goods of production—material or immaterial—such as land, factories, practical or artistic skills, oblige their possessors to employ them in ways that will benefit the…

— Libreria Editrice Vaticana

Commerce has set the mark of selfishness, the signet of its all-enslaving power, upon a shining ore, and called it gold: before whose image…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance…

— Plato

A certain alloy of expediency improves the gold of morality and makes it wear all the longer.

— Don Marquis

Greediness consists in ravishing the goods of another through violence or cunning, as in the two noble professions of the conqueror and courtier. But…

— Augustin Thierry