Women are at last taking a hand in man’s most exciting capitalist game. For the first time they have the interest, the self assurance,
Quotes
Max Weber
in the US, “the pursuit of wealth, stripped of its relgious and ethical meaning, tends to become associated with purely mundane passions, which often
Harriet Martineau
The charm was in the excitement – in the pleasure of sympathy in large enterprises – in the rousing of the faculties of imagination
Edward Chancellor
America is a democratic nation where social status is up for grabs, and wealth, not birth, provides the ultimate measure of distinction.
Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco (1897-1945) English Writer
Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting.
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
John Pollexfen
Companies have bodies, but it is said they have no souls; if no souls, no consciences.
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
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
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