Business Quote by John Kenneth Galbraith

“The income men derive from producing things of slight consequence is of great consequence to them.”

— John Kenneth Galbraith

The accumulation of great wealth is, in many instances, the effect of paying too little for the labor that produced it, the consequence of…

— Thomas Paine

Prosperity is very liable to bring pride among the other goods with which it endows an individual; it is then that prosperity costs too…

— Hosea Ballou

Since man does not create physical matter, those who handle material objects in the production process are not producers in that sense. Economic benefits…

— Thomas Sowell

The great blessing of private property, then, is that people can benefit from their own industry and insulate themselves from the negative effects of…

— Tom Bethell

The employment of the poor in roads and public works, and a tendency among landlords and persons of property to build, to improve and…

— Thomas Malthus

“For when once people have begun to believe that prosperity is the reward of virtue, their next calamity is obvious. If prosperity is regarded…

— G.K. Chesterton

When people who earn more than the average have their 'surplus', or the greater part of it, seized from them in taxes, and when…

— Henry Hazlitt

The inevitable consequence of poverty is dependence.

— Samuel Johnson

Economic gains on their own, without a vision for society to accompany them, will result in a squandered prosperity that will ultimately be unsustainable.

— Leo Varadkar

The riches of the rich are not the cause of the poverty of anybody; the process that makes some people rich is, on the…

— Ludwig von Mises

Prosperity can change man's nature; and seldom is any one cautious enough to resist the effects of good fortune. [Lat., Res secundae valent commutare…

— Quintus Curtius Rufus