The rich are always going to say that, you know, just give us more money and we'll go out and spend more and then it will all trickle down to the rest of you. But that has not worked the last 10...

Summer is the mother of the poor.

The small landholders are the most precious part of a state.

Capitalism in the United States has undergone profound modification not just under the New Deal but through a consensus that continued to grow after the New Deal. Government in the U.S. today is a...

Effective time management is instrumental for economic reformation.

The breaking of the interest slavery of productive work in all professional fields will grant it the primary position due to it. Money will once again be returned to its sole appropriate role of being...

Thirty years ago {written 2009}, over-regulation, over-taxation, mis-regulation, statism, state corporatism, and economic folly, cosiness and regulatory capture, and a crescent ideological enemy...

Much of what is euphemistically known as the middle class, merely because it dresses up to go to work, is now reduced to proletarian conditions of existence. Many white-collar jobs require no more...

The economy depends about as much on economists as the weather does on weather forecasters.

They did not understand that by liberalizing imports, the government was also promoting exports.

Everything we get, outside of the free gifts of nature, must in some way be paid for. The world is full of so-called economists who in turn are full of schemes for getting something for nothing. They...

The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.

The first value of money was clearly the value which the goods used as money possessed {thanks to their suitability for satisfying human wants in other ways} at the moment when they were first used as...

By buying the power of the workman, the capitalist has, therefore, acquired the right to use that labouring power during the whole day or week.

Trade and money, which go together in a stream of energy, inevitably wash away the enclosing walls of a society of status.

Every step which leads from capitalism toward planning is necessarily a step nearer to absolutism and dictatorship.

No society can surely be flourishing and happy of which by far the greater part of the numbers are poor and miserable.

Actually, the idea of economic man is an efficient way of excluding women. We have historically allocated women certain activities and said that she must do them because she is a woman. Then we create...

I do not condemn either the rich or the poor, but the consequences of these two.

Money is necessary in everyone's life. Why? Only because people have decided that it should be. It didn't have to be the way that it has become. If nothing came at the price of money, it wouldn't need...

If you want to know, it was the capitalists who invented marriage in order to protect the laws of inheritance.

Our attitude to these criticisms must be determined by our whole moral and emotional reaction to the future of international relations and the Peace of the World.

I did not myself set a high estimation on wealth, and had the affectation of most young men of lively imagination, who suppose that they can better dispense with the possession of money, than resign...

In proportion therefore, as the repulsiveness of the work increases, the wage decreases.

If doctors are paid the same salary as bus drivers, community would not be crazy about making their children doctors

Usually when people talk about the trickle-down theory, it has to do with economics. The richer people at the top of a society become, supposedly, the more wealth there is to trickle down to the...

But they are sufficiently few to make the reapplication of the images to comparable situations easy. Any society whom Babylon's cap fits must wear it. Any society which absolutizes its own economic...

That's what you should be worrying about. Idiots with all the money, plowing it into building a thing just because they can.

The richer and more market-oriented societies have become, the nicer people have behaved.

Hotel rooms costing $34,000 per night, a burger covered in gold dust offered by Richard Nouveau at the Wall Street Burger Shoppe for $175, the $10,000 martini at the Algonquin Hotel served with a...