Individual Quote by Edmund Burke

A good man will extend his munificence to the industrious poor of all persuasions reduced by age, infirmity, or accident; to thosewho labour under…

— Samuel Richardson

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

What is the disposition which makes men rejoice in good bargains? There are few people who will not be benefited by pondering over the…

— Henry Ward Beecher

If, in the present chaotic and shameful struggle for existence, when organized society offers a premium on greed, cruelty, and deceit, men can be…

— Lucy Parsons

Men have a singular desire to be good without being good for anything, because, perchance, they think vaguely that so it will be good…

— Henry David Thoreau

Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not find them, they will…

— Samuel Smiles

Vigorous societies harbor a certain extravagance of objectives, so that men wander beyond the safe provision of personal gratifications.

— Alfred North Whitehead

The reason why men who mind their own business succeed is that they have so little competition.

— Evan Esar

men are undoubtedly more in danger from prosperity than from adversity. for when matters go smoothly, they flatter themselves, and are intoxicated by their…

— John Calvin

Men are so constituted that every one undertakes what he sees another successful in, whether he has aptitude for it or not.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Men seek to be great; they would have offices, wealth, power, and fame. They think that to be great is to possess one side…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“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