White collar crime called for intellect: in every country one found bevies of top executives and leading politicians behind bars and others under indictment.
Business Quotes
Jacques Barzun
These occupations (fraud, cheating) showed a desire for activity which, for the energetic, entertainment failed to provide. Whether sports event or soap opera or
Jack Dempsey
A champion is someone who gets up when he can’t.
Jacques Barzun
As for equality, it breeds envy among those neighbors and resentment of any kind of superiority. The effect is to bring down quality of
Jacques Barzun
War, moreover, had some civilized features – it was a game. The rules were strict. The word of honor, courtesy between foes, the captured
Thomas Hill
It is not the possession, but the acquisition, of wealth, that gives happiness.
Hunter Thompson
Cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where theives and pimps run free and good men die like dogs.
William Thackeray
If you take temptations into account, who is to say he is better than his neighbor? A comfortable career of prosperity, if it does
William Thackeray
The hidden and awful Wisdom which apportions the destinies of mankind is pleased so to humiliate and cast down the tender, the good, and
William Thackeray
We grieve at being found out and at the idea of shame or punishment, but the mere sense of wrong makes very few people