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

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

The sea serves the pirate as well as the trader.

Money is a language for translating the work of the farmer into the work of the barber, doctor, engineer, or plumber.

There is no blindness more insidious, more fatal, than this race for profit.

Profit is profit even in Mecca.

There is no profit without another’s loss.

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

Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

We get a deal o’ useless things about us, only because we’ve got the money to spend.

It is no longer a government of the people, by the people, and for the people, but a government of Wall Street, by Wall Street, and for Wall Street.

Trade is a social act.

A merchant may, perhaps, be a man of an enlarged mind, but there is nothing in trade connected with an enlarged mind.