Quality Quote by John Ruskin

There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who…

— John Ruskin

“That a poor man has no choice but to make the best of what he finds or is given.”

— Megan Derr

“A man being sometimes more generous when he has but a little money than when he has plenty, perhaps thro' fear of being thought…

— Benjamin Franklin

“But he could feel nothing but disdain for the artificial class of the merchant, who sucks up his living through buying and selling things…

— Trevanian

“What we obtain too cheaply, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives gives everything its value. Heaven knows how to put…

— Thomas Payne 1776

“Sometimes in life, as in literature, people get their just desserts. The greedy man loses everything because he cannot resist seeking more riches.”

— Elise Blackwell

“Never value anything as profitable that compels you to break your promise, to lose your self-respect, to hate any man, to suspect, to curse,…

— Marcus Aurelius

“In my travels I had encountered all kinds of people whose dignity seemed to have a price -- widely variable -- and I thought…

— Piper Kerman

“Absolutely speaking, the more money, the less virtue; for money comes between a man and his objects, and obtains them for him; it was…

— Henry David Thoreau

“The man who buys what he does not need will often need what he cannot buy.’ ”

— Lisa Wingate

“I do not regard a man as poor, if the little which remains is enough for him.”

— Seneca

“That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly. It is dearness only which gives everything its value. Heaven knows how to put…

— Stephen R. Covey