18th-century Businessman Quotes

Jean-Baptiste Say

John Jacob Astor

Ethan Allen

John Davis

James Lackington

Paul Cuffee

If one individual, or one class, can call in the aid of authority to ward off the effects of competition, it acquires a privilege and at the cost of the whole community; it can make sure of profits not altogether due to the productive services rendered, but composed in part of an actual tax upon consumers for its private profit' which tax it commonly shares with the authority that thus unjustly lent its support.

Jean-Baptiste Say

As far as we understand nature, we are become acquainted with the character of God; for the knowledge of nature is the revelation of God.

The higher Virginians seem to venerate themselves as men.

At last, by singing and repeating enthusiastic amorous hymns, and ignorantly applying particular texts of scripture, I got my imagination to the proper pitch, and thus was I born again in an instant.

James Lackington

The first hundred thousand—that was hard to get; but afterwards it was easy to make more.

John Jacob Astor

My soul feels free to travel for the welfare of my fellow creatures both here and hereafter.