John Tiffany Quotes

What is price gouging and what is capitalism can sometimes be a fine line.

Very, very rarely do you find bands underpricing.

Hey, if we didn't overcharge for our product - guess what - people wouldn't have to buy used games.

It's morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep his money.

Nothing is as irritating as the fellow who chats pleasantly while he's overcharging you.

It is right to give every man his due.

The time is always right to do what is right.

It isn't right to judge strength as better than good wisdom.

Where there is no property there is no injustice.

The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it.

Do not inflate prices one to another.

The genius of capitalism consists precisely in its lack of morality …. Deprive a capitalist of his God-given right to lie and cheat and steal, and the poor sap stands a better than even chance of becoming one of the abominable wards of the state.

The question with me is, not whether you have a right to render your people miserable, but whether it is not your interest to make them happy. It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do, but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do. Is a politic act the worse for being a generous one? Is no concession proper but that which is made from your want of right to keep what you grant?

After I asked him [a student] what he meant, he replied that freedom consisted of the unimpeded right to get rich, to use his ability, no matter what the cost to others, to win advancement. No decent society can tolerate that definition.

… as a rule capitalists and entrepreneurs are not saints excelling in the virtue of self-denial. But neither are their critics saintly.

I want to make money but not if it involves exploitation.

You should not be taking advantage of anybody.

Cost-plus is an inefficient way to do things.

No man should so act as to make a gain out of the ignorance of another.

Anyone may fairly seek his own advantage, but no one has a right to do so at another's expense.

A free market was never meant to be a free licence to take whatever you can get, however you can get it.

When I would work freelance in production in Chicago, there were a lot of times when I was working for cheap, bad people, and I was working for slave wages anyway, so there were some times when I might have filled out a couple of blank taxi receipts and kept some petty cash. But like I say, I was very selective. It was only people that I thought were assholes. The people that I liked I went far and above saving them money, much less taking it. But that's it. I'm pretty moral. I don't even like stealing jokes.

Every human tribunal ought to take care to administer justice, as we look hereafter to have justice administered to ourselves.

The Law is a grim, unsmiling thing. Not Justice, though. Justice is witty and whimsical and kind and caring.