America is a democratic nation where social status is up for grabs, and wealth, not birth, provides the ultimate measure of distinction.
Business Quotes
John Pollexfen
Companies have bodies, but it is said they have no souls; if no souls, no consciences.
Edward Chancellor
The successful establishment of the stock market and the joint stock company over other forms of capital organization lay in their incorporating within themselves
Benjamin Disraeli
To succeed as an advocate I must be a great lawyer, and, to be a great lawyer, I must give up my chance of
Max Weber, On the desire for unlimited gain
The development of the spirit of capitalism is best understood as part of the development of rationalism as a whole, and could be deduced
Benjamin Disraeli
Yes, we must mix with the herd; we must enter into their feelings; we must humour their weaknesses; we must sympathize with sorrows we
Waermondt
What need is there for merchants to have any style, or to risk their goods overseas, or the children to learn a trade, for
Charles Davenant
Tis the principle of us Modern Whigs, to get what we can, no matter how.
HL Menchen
On Rudolph Valentino: Here was a young man who was living daily the dreams of millions of other young men. Here was one who
HL Menchen
It is indeed, a cardinal socialistic doctrine,…, that the desire of the weak and inefficient man to seize the things beyond his reach is,