Thomas Hodgskin Quotes

I want business to prosper and make a profit caused by business expansion and prosperity.

All fixed capital, not only in the first instance, as is generally admitted, but in every stage of society, at every period in the history of man, is the creation of labour …

The moguls are driven by their respective desires for profit - period.

There's always more money to be made.

There is no more rapid growth in the history of capitalistic enterprise.

lt is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.

Civilization and profits go hand in hand.

The merchant created the industrialist.

We want Boeing to make a lot of money but not that much money.

My philosophy is to make money.

Private industry's job is to make money. Private industry's job is to create a huge economic engine.

Our position should not be on how to eliminate the competition at all expenses, but we should focus on what we're going to do in order to make sure that Americans turn to the road of prosperity with the trajectory of capitalism, because making a profit is not an evil.

We have no obligation to make history. We have no obligation to make art. We have no obligation to make a statement. Our obligation is to make money.

A desire of gain is common to mankind, and the general motive to business and industry.

Japan has only 100m people. Asia has 4bn. At least one-third, maybe nearly half, will become middle class, and this is a big opportunity for Japanese businessmen.

I never lost money by turning a profit.

People getting rich in a free society in general - with some scammy exceptions, which are rare - makes everyone else richer, too.

To let her dail would be the greatest profit both for the company and for the merchants.

I know how to make stuff happen, how to create wealth, create jobs, create investment.

These will be fabulous investments and will make millions of more people rich.

In these times of the 'Great Recession', we shouldn't be trying to shift the benefits of wealth behind some curtain. We should be celebrating and encouraging people to make as much money as they can. Profits equal tax money. While some people might find it distasteful to pay taxes, I don't. I find it patriotic.

To develop political and economic power in a capitalist society, you need capital.

Companies that grow create wealth. This, in turn, allows people to have jobs that create more growth and more wealth. It's a virtuous cycle.

In my fifty years of experience and memory, I have seen the most amazing increase in the standard of living of a people ever achieved anywhere in the world. This is why I am so sure that our system of free competition and industrial development is sound and must be preserved.

I make no claim to being a business genius. You can make so much money in this business that it loses its value.