Wealth Depletion Quotes

The problem with socialism is that sooner or later you run out of everyone else's money.

Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth — the soil and the laborer.

He who is extravagant will quickly become poor; and poverty will enforce dependence, and invite corruption.

The rates of taxation climb and the levels of capital decline, until the only remaining wealth beyond the reach of the regime is the very protein of human flesh, and that too is finally taxed, bound, and gagged, and brought to the colossal temple of the state - a final sacrifice of carnal revenue to feed the declining elite.

The human world is a long way from meeting the needs of the present, and it is borrowing massively from the future - not only by piling up money debt, but also by degrading the resources from which all real wealth ultimately comes.

Great wants proceed from great wealth; but they are undutiful children, for they sink wealth down to poverty.

Some families sell their stocks off a little bit at a time to live high, and then - boom - somebody takes them over, and it all goes down the drain.

If, as is generally the case, the heirs are not equal to the demands which life makes on an entrepreneur, the inherited wealth rapidly vanishes.

Consumption is the death of capital, and the only valid arguments in favor of consumption are arguments in favor of death itself.

Sinfully acquired wealth may remain for ten years; in the eleventh year it disappears with even the original stock.

Wasting a fortune is evaporation by a thousand imperceptible means.

Where the army is, prices are high; when prices rise the wealth of the people is exhausted.

We are poor with all the wealth and commerce of the entire universe, and soon, on account of having solders, we shall have nothing but soldiers, and we will become like the Tartars.

The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation; his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and acquaintances are his capital.