You must not grow used to making money out of everything. One sees more people ruined than one has seen preserved by shameful gains.

Everyone lives by selling something.

No nation was ever ruined by trade.

The sea serves the pirate as well as the trader.

The money market is to a commercial nation what the heart is to man.

Business is other people’s money.

Wherever commerce prevails there will be an inequality of wealth, and wherever the latter does a simplicity of manners must decline.

Corporations have neither bodies to be punished nor souls to be damned.

Profit is profit even in Mecca.

Commerce tends to wear off those prejudices which maintain distinction and animosity between nations.

Exchange is no robbery.

Yes to a market economy, no to a market society.

The money we have is the means to liberty; that which we pursue is the means to slavery.