The commercial speculator often gets rich by accident, by unfair venturing, by sudden exertions. Wealth thus suddenly obtained is in many respects detrimental to
Business Quotes
Jackson Lear
To critics of gambling, the sine qua non of manly success was not sudden wealth, but steady movement towards prosperity.
Jackson Lears
By postulating an innate ‘moral sense’ in every human being, Smith and his colleagues provided an internal counterweight to the amoral anarchy produced by
Jackson Lears
They continued to insist on the ever present possibility of sudden reversals and the impossibility of matching merit and reward. They marshaled innumerable examples
Jackson Lears/David Thompson
Great gamblers have seen the grim absurdities in capital and its accumulation. They know that money is merely a game (like 10,000 on the
Max Weber
Protestantism ‘turned the world into a monastery.’ Any ambition could be a calling, if it were pursued honestly and diligently.
Jackson Lears
An emphasis on the precariousness of wealth, the impermanence of life, and the arbitrariness of money as a measure of worth – if these
Ecclesiastes 9:11, KJV
I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread
Jackson Lears
…challenge the central dogma of our time: the idea that money is an indicator of fundamental value.
Reverend William Stith, Rector of Henrico Parish
By committing ourselves to the blind arbitrament of Chance, to the cast of a Dye or the turn of a card, we give the