With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches.

Have lots of experiments, but make sure they're strategically focused.

All for ourselves, and nothing for other people, seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind.

Goods can serve many other purposes besides purchasing money, but money can serve no other purpose besides purchasing goods.

Secrets in manufactures are capable of being longer kept than secrets in trade.

The retinue of a grandee in China or Indostan accordingly is, by all accounts, much more numerous and splendid than that of the richest subjects of Europe.

As soon as government management begins it upsets the natural equilibrium of industrial relations, and each interference only requires further bureaucratic control until the end is the tyranny of the totalitarian state.