Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.

It is difficult but not impossible to conduct strictly honest business. What is true is that honesty is incompatible with the amassing of a large fortune.

It is impossible to deny that dishonest men often grow rich and famous, becoming powerful in their parish or in parliament. Their portraits grace shop windows; and they live and die respected. This success is theirs; yet it is not the success which a noble soul will envy.

What is the chief end of man?-to get rich. In what way?-dishonestly if we can; honestly if we must.

The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.

Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.

In politics there is no honor.

I have not observed men's honesty to increase with their riches.

No man can make a million dollars honestly.

The man who damns money has obtained it dishonestly: the man who respects it has earned it.

Virtue has never been as respectable as money.

If there were an honorable way to get rich, I’d do it, even if it meant being a stooge standing around with a whip. But there isn’t an honorable way, so I just do what I like.

There's nothing wrong with material things as long as you don't lie, cheat and steal.

A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.

Let none of us delude himself by supposing that honesty is always the best policy. It is not.

No public man can be just a little crooked.

Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels.

White lies always introduce others of a darker complexion.

I want to go to bed richer than when I woke up. The pursuit of wealth is a wonderful thing, but the thing is you have to be honest about it, you have to tell the truth.

An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.

More precious is want with honesty than wealth with infamy.

All those men have their price.

For my own part, I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen the representative of our country. He is a bird of bad moral character. He does not get his living honestly.

I wouldn't be in a legitimate business for all the money in the world.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.