Quotes
Quotes about Sin
And they that use this world, as not abusing it: for the fashion of this world passeth away.
I'll be at charges for a looking-glass And entertain a score or two of tailors To study fashions to adorn my body: Since I am crept in favor with myself, I will maintain it with some little cost.
Success, the mark no mortal wit, Or surest hand, can always hit: For whatsoe'er we perpetrate, We do but row, we're steer'd by Fate, Which in success oft disinherits, For spurious causes, noblest merits.
Destiny has two ways of crushing usâ by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.
A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink- drop soileth the pure white page.
Since love and fear can hardly coexist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved.
The February born will find Sincerity and peace of mind; Freedom from passion and from care, If they the Pearl (also green Amethyst) will wear.
But, spite of all the criticising elves, Those who would make us feel, must feel themselves.
Feeling is deep and still; and the word that floats on the surface Is as the tossing buoy, that betrays where the anchor is hidden.
It is a suggestive idea to track those worn feet backward through all the paths they have trodden ever since they were the tender and rosy little feet of a baby, and (cold as they now are) were kept warm in his mother's hand.
We keep the day. With festal cheer, With books and music, surely we Will drink to him, whate'er he be, And sing the songs he loved to hear.
All that non-fiction can do is answer questions. It's fiction's business to ask them.
Fidelity is seven-tenths of business success.
When it comes to finances, remember that there are no withholding taxes on the wages of sin.
Finance is the art of passing currency from hand to hand until it finally disappears.
I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expense, and my expense is equal to my wishes.
...the only means to well-being is to increase the quantity of products. This is what business aims at.
...it is solely bigness in business which makes it possible to supply the masses with all those products the present-day American common man does not want to do without. Luxury goods for the few can be produced in small shops. Luxury goods for the many require big business.
Business is a means- the only means- to increase the quantity of goods available for preserving life and rendering it more agreeable.
Economics is a theoretical science and as such abstains from any judgement of value. It is not its task to tell people what ends they should aim at. It is a science of the means to be applied for attainment of ends chosen, not, to be sure, a science of the choosing of ends. Ultimate decisions, the valuations and the choosing of ends, are beyond the scope of any science. Science never tells a man how he should act; it merely shows how a man must act if he wants to attain definite ends.
Not understanding the process of a spontaneously-ordered economy goes hand-in-hand with not understanding the creation of resources and wealth. And when a person does not understand the creation of resources and wealth, the only intellectual alternative is to believe that increasing wealth must be at the cost of someone else. This belief that our good fortune must be an exploitation of others may be the taproot of false prophecy about doom that our evil ways must bring upon us.
The standard of living has risen along with the size of the world's population since the beginning of recorded time. There is no convincing economic reason why these trends toward a better life should not continue indefinitely.
Greater consumption due to increase in population and growth of income heightens scarcity and induces price run-ups. A higher price represents an opportunity that leads inventors and businesspeople to seek new ways to satisfy the shortages. Some fail, at cost to themselves. A few succeed, and the final result is that we end up better off than if the original shortage problems had never arisen. That is, we need our problems, though this does not imply that we should purposely create additional problems for ourselves.
I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service.
Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.
