A rise in wages, from an alteration in the value of money, produces a general effect on price, and for that reason it produces no real effect whatever on profits.

The farmer and manufacturer can no more live without profit than the labourer without wages.

Nothing contributes so much to the prosperity and happiness of a country as high profits.

There can be no rise in the value of labour without a fall of profits.

There is no way of keeping profits up but by keeping wages down.

Neither a state nor a bank ever have had unrestricted power of issuing paper money without abusing that power.

If a tax on malt would raise the price of beer, a tax on bread must raise the price of bread.

Profits are not made by differential cleverness, but by differential stupidity.

Money is neither a material to work upon nor a tool to work with.

The exchangeable value of all commodities rises as the difficulties of their production increase.

There can be no greater error then in supposing that capital is increased by non-consumption.

Nobody knows you.You don't know yourself.And I, who am half in love with you, What am I in love with?My own imaginings?

The consistent thinker ... is either a walking mummy or else if he has not succeeded in stifling all his vitality a fanatical monomaniac.

The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land.

Above all, a director has to be a good captain.

No one has a greater asset for his business than a man's pride in his work.

There is no way you can use the word “reality” without quotation marks around it.

I still love old-school hip-hop, but there hasn't been a lot that I've taken from the new stuff.

The Threarah doesn't like anything he hasn't thought of for himself.

I'm basically a movie actor now, and my big roles are mostly horror movies - unless I'm doing a guest star or something - and occasionally I try to get back into television.

I am naive when it comes to love, you know what I mean? I do believe in falling in love at first sight and things like that.