Economy Quote by Pope Pius XI

Without property rights, no other rights are possible.

— Ayn Rand

The property a man has in his own industry, is violated, whenever he is forbidden the free exercise of his faculties or talents, except…

— Jean-Baptiste Say

Principles are sometimes an unaffordable luxury.

— Mary Jo Putney

The union miner cannot agree to the acceptance of a wage principle which will permit his annual earnings and his living standards to be…

— John L. Lewis

Business principles are only as good as the practices that back them up.

— Chip Conley

And with respect to the mode in which these general principles affect the secure possession of property, so far am I from invalidating such…

— John Ruskin

It's easy to have principles when you're rich. The important thing is to have principles when you're poor.

— Ray Kroc

Its easy to have principles when you're rich. The important thing is to have principles when you're poor.

— Ray Kroc

No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober. Such reforms can only be effected by means…

— Samuel Smiles

Principles don't mean anything until they cost you something.

— Laura Schlessinger

Try to imagine a system of labor imposed by force that is not a violation of liberty; a transfer of wealth imposed by force…

— Frederic Bastiat

Now property is part of a household, and the acquisition of property part of household-management; for neither life itself nor the good life is…

— Aristotle