What is prudence in the conduct of every private family can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom.

That wealth and greatness are often regarded with the respect and admiration which are due only to wisdom and virtue; and that the contempt, of which vice and folly are the only proper objects, is most often unjustly bestowed upon poverty and weakness, has been the complaint of moralists in all ages.

What is prudence in the conduct of every private family can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom.

A nation is not made wealthy by the childish accumulation of shiny metals, but it enriched by the economic prosperity of it's people.

In this consists the difference between the character of a miser and that of a person of exact economy and assiduity. The one is anxious about small matters for their own sake; the other attends to them only in consequence of the scheme of life which he has laid down to himself.

All jobs are created in direct proportion to the amount of capital employed.

The first thing you have to know is yourself. A man who knows himself can step outside himself and watch his own reactions like an observer.