American - Businessman | October 30, 1840 - April 12, 1910
A good father believes that he does wisely to encourage enterprise, productive skill, prudent self-denial, and judicious expenditure on the part of his son.
William Graham Sumner
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A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be, according to the fitness and tendency of things. Nature has set upon him the process of decline and dissolution by which she removes things which have survived their usefulness.
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If you ever live in a country run by a committee, be on the committee.
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Perhaps they do not recognize themselves, for a rich man is even harder to define than a poor one.
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Undoubtedly there are, in connection with each of these things, cases of fraud, swindling, and other financial crimes; that is to say, the greed and selfishness of men are perpetual.
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It is often said that the earth belongs to the race, as if raw land was a boon, or gift.
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The forgotten man... He works, he votes, generally he prays, but his chief business in life is to pay.
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If I want to be free from any other man's dictation, I must understand that I can have no other man under my control.
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Men of routine or men who can do what they are told are not hard to find; but men who can think and plan and tell the routine men what to do are very rare.
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I have before me a newspaper slip on which a writer expresses the opinion that no one should be allowed to possess more than one million dollars' worth of property.
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The men who start out with the notion that the world owes them a living generally find that the world pays its debt in the penitentiary or the poor house.
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We throw all our attention on the utterly idle question whether A has done as well as B, when the only question is whether A has done as well as he could.
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