Avarice Quote by Samuel Johnson

I wish we didn't live in a world where buying and selling things seems to have become almost more important than either producing or…

— C. S. Lewis

Avarice, the spur of industry.

— David Hume

“Products can be sold for a better price when there is a shortage, and crises and wars can also offer business opportunities.”

— Daniel Ammann

We were hoping to build a small profitable company; and of course, what we've done is build a large, unprofitable company.

— Jeff Bezos

“In fact, it has become increasingly profitable not to innovate. Imagine just how much progress we’ve missed out on because thousands of bright minds…

— Rutger Bregman

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

We may lack riches, but the greatest fortune is what lies in our hearts.

— Dean Koontz

We're not about liquidating companies, but if you do that, why is that terrible? We're not blowing up the factories. The person who buys…

— Carl Icahn

We're not really in the business to sell ourselves. We want to sell what we work on.

— Danny Carey

There exist limitless opportunities in every industry. Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.

— Charles Kettering

If you want greater prosperity in your life, start forming a vacuum to receive it.

— Catherine Ponder

Profit is the ignition system of our economic engine.

— Charles Sawyer