Business Quote by Oliver Goldsmith

Any society that values wealth above freedom will lose its freedom, and will ultimately lose its wealth as well

— W. Somerset Maugham

Wealth is attended with power, by which bargains and proceedings, contrary to universal righteousness, are supported; and hence oppression, carried on with worldly policy…

— John Woolman

Contentment comes not so much from great wealth as from few wants.

— Epictetus

“44. Abidement Bullshit money or basic freedoms: which is dearer? Contentment or competition: which is more valuable? Compensation or employment: which is more painful?…

— The Church of the Latter-Day Dude

Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for…

— William Blake

The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.

— Sallust

Commerce is the equalizer of the wealth of nations.

— William E. Gladstone

“England and America owe their liberty to commerce, which created a new species of power to undermine the feudal system. But let them beware…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

In hard times, no less than in prosperity, preserve equanimity.

— Horace

“Where commerce and capitalism are invloved, often times, morality and honor sink to the bottom-Oliver Goldsmith paraphrased”

— Oliver Goldsmith

“Success not maintained is worst than Poverty inheritted. Riches without maintenance is worst than inheritted Poverty.”

— Patience Johnson

Oppression is often the consequence, but seldom or never the means of riches.

— Thomas Paine