Investing Quote by Samuel Johnson

“All men, taken singly, are more or less selfish; and taken in bodies, they are intensely so. The British merchant is no exception to…

— Charlotte Brontë

Commerce can never be at a stop while one man wants what another can supply; and credit will never be denied, while it is…

— Samuel Johnson

Anybody who knows about capitalism knows that bankruptcy is an essential part of capitalism.

— Joseph Stiglitz

We are unreasonably desirous to separate the goods of life from those evils which Providence has connected with them, and to catch advantages without…

— Samuel Johnson

Living on credit and over drawn interest, craving commercialized commodities, everything's advertised stirring up greed.

— The Kinks

The impulse to acquisition, pursuit of gain, of money, of the greatest possible amount of money, has in itself nothing to do with capitalism.…

— Max Weber

If a man were living in isolation his income would be literally his product. Make him the monarch and owner of an island, and…

— John Bates Clark

And for all the richest and most successful merchants life inevitably became rather dull and niggly, and they began to imagine that this was…

— Douglas Adams

It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.

— Edmund Burke

Behind the abstraction known as 'the markets' lurks a set of institutions designed to maximize the wealth and power of the most privileged group…

— Doug Henwood

The superfluities of a rich nation furnish a better object of trade than the necessities of a poor one. It is the interest of…

— Edmund Burke

A trader is a man who earns what he gets and does not give or take the undeserved.

— John Galt