William Graham Sumner Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

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William Graham Sumner quotes and sayings page 2 (businessman). Here's quote # 11 through 20 out of the 33 we have.

“Men of routine or men who can do what they are told are not hard to find; but men who can think and plan and tell the routine men what to do are very rare.”

“One thing must be granted to the rich: they are goodnatured.”

“Perhaps they do not recognize themselves, for a rich man is even harder to define than a poor one.”

“What we prepare for is what we shall get.”

“The men who start out with the notion that the world owes them a living generally find that the world pays its debt in the penitentiary or the poor house.”

“Any one who believes that any great enterprise of an industrial character can be started without labor must have little experience of life.”

“If you ever live in a country run by a committee, be on the committee.”

“The aggregation of large fortunes is not at all a thing to be regretted.”

“The great hinderance to the development of this continent has lain in the lack of capital.”

“It is remarkable that jealousy of individual property in land often goes along with very exaggerated doctrines of tribal or national property in land.”