Business is other people’s money.

Peace is a natural effect of trade.

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

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

Commerce has made all winds her ministers.

More pernicious nonsense was never devised by man than treaties of commerce.

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

The period is not very remote when the benefits of a liberal and free commerce will, pretty generally, succeed to the devastations and horrors of war.

There is no profit without another’s loss.

Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

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

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

Everyone lives by selling something.