B. C. Forbes Quotes
How many men I know who are earning dollars aplenty, but who are really earning little of what counts. They are so overwhelmingly engrossed in business that they get nothing from their dollars. The Juggernaut of dollar-making has crushed out of them every capacity for genuine enjoyment, every grace, every unselfish sentiment and instinct.
Forbes, B. C. Forbes. Vol. 13, Forbes Inc., 1924, p. 12.
The issue as to whether clerics should be paid for their services, or teaching or given control of property or other power has split most religions including Muslims and Jews as well as various Christian sects. In the case of the Quakers, their philosophy came out against the pecuniary and material interests of the established churches, thus building a theological opposition. See {611968}
The sense of the word affair is the general purpose, and Smith was referring to the fact when he investigated any proposed or implemented public scheme or law, there was an objective of someone obtaining money as a consequence. As journalists say in covering politics, “follow the money.”
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910
Roosevelt believed that the person who just made money was sorely lacking and he had a duty to the society and the country that went beyond money. Much of the upper class though him a prig and resented his criticism.
Amongst rich families marriage is often seen as a merger of two fortunes.
Bertie Charles Forbes was a Scottish-American financial journalist and author who founded Forbes magazine.
