Accounts Quote by Frederic Bastiat Download Open image “Man acquires wealth in proportion as he puts his labor to better account.” — Frederic Bastiat ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Accounts Acquire Labor Men Money Proportion Wealth
Wealth is not in making money, but in making the man while he is making money. — Roger Wicker Copy Share Image
Men become richer not only by increasing their existing wealth but also by decreasing their expenditure. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The only distribution of wealth which is the product of labor, which will be honest, will come through a more equal distribution of the… — Leland Stanford Copy Share Image
Man must make his choice between ease and wealth; either may be his, but not both. — Newell Dwight Hillis Copy Share Image
A man's wealth can...also be measured by what he doesn't have and doesn't want. When he wants little, he is a rich man. — Bill Bonner Copy Share Image
The man of wealth [should] consider all surplus revenues which come to him simply as trust funds, which he is called upon to administer… — Andrew Carnegie Copy Share Image
Man cannot be satisfied by wealth. Man cannot go beyond his nature, no more than you can jump out of your body. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Why is one man richer than another? Because he is more industrious, more persevering and more sagacious. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
A man's true wealth hereafter is the good he has done to his fellowmen. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The politician attempts to remedy the evil by increasing the very thing that caused the evil in the first place: legal plunder. — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
The law is the collective organization of the individual's right to lawful defense of his life, liberty and property. When it is used for… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
If every person has the right to defend - even by force - his person, his liberty, and his property, then it follows that… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
Sometimes the law defends plunder and participates in it. Sometimes the law places the whole apparatus of judges, police, prisons and gendarmes at the… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
Slavery, protection, and monopoly find defenders, not only in those who profit by them, but in those who suffer by them. — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
Here I encounter the most popular fallacy of our times. It is not considered sufficient that the law should guarantee to every citizen the… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else. — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
There is in all of a strong disposition to believe that anything lawful is also legitimate. This belief is so widespread that many persons… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
I believe that my theory is correct; for whatever be the question upon which I am arguing, whether it be religious, philosophical, political, or… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
There are people who think that plunder loses all its immorality as soon as it becomes legal. Personally, I cannot imagine a more alarming… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
Think of these things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
There is nothing that we can properly call our own but our time, and yet everybody fools us out of it who has a… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The Hindus have a peculiar slovenliness in business matters, not being sufficiently methodical and strict in keeping accounts etc. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
With the Truman book, I wrote the entire account of his experiences in World War I before going over to Europe to follow his… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
A great read; an exciting, frightening account of organized crime today. But like all important works of nonfiction, it goes further… This book is… — Le Ly Hayslip Copy Share Image
I had a very blessed journey with the upbringing I had. When you're working on sets as a stuntman, you have a firsthand account… — Ric Roman Waugh Copy Share Image
The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion or in politics, but it is not the path to knowledge; it has no… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
You've got to exercise. Your health account, your bank account, they're the same thing. The more you put in, the more you can take… — Jack LaLanne Copy Share Image
No physiologist who calmly considers the question in connection with the general truths of his science, can long resist the conviction that different parts… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
God puts you where God needs you. You are where you are supposed to be. The job you are doing may not be any… — Lawrence Kushner Copy Share Image