American writer Quote by Tim Noakes

“Upton Sinclair once noted, “It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.”)”

— Dan Ariely

“Upton Sinclair once said, ‘It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.”

— Yanis Varoufakis

Despite his persecutions, Mr. [Upton] Sinclair reveals himself in Money Writes! to be an enviable man. Always the thing he desires to believe is…

— Dorothy Parker

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”

— Upton Sinclair

Upton Sinclair is his own King Charles' head. He cannot keep himself out of his writings, try though he may; or, by this time,…

— Dorothy Parker

“The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine the can design.”

— Friedrich August von Hayek

“It’s been said that only the very rich understand the difference between themselves and the poor, and only the truly brilliant understand the difference…

— Marcus Luttrell

“We have all met a class of men, very remarkable for their activity, and who yet make but little headway in life; men who,…

— Frederick Douglass

“A man can be rich as long as he reads.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“When a man is commonplace in discussion yet valued for what he writes that shows that his talents lie in his borrowed sources not…

— Michel de Montaigne

“A man's riches are based on what he can do without.”

— Henry David Thoreau

“The rich are the laziest of men. They pay others to do the hard work.”

— Tim Westover