Samuel Johnson Quotes
There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
Boswell, James. The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. Charles Dilly, 1791.
Although England had benefitted more from the industrial revolution than most nations, the English Aristocracy and its intelligencia saw business as inherently corrupt with minimal ethical standards and almost no transparency. See {629121} for a Christian religious version of this secular quotation.
Most of the great industrialists and business people work to create something and change the world somehow. They get rich but that is not typically their major motivation. Most rich people however do not want to trade money for time as they know in a capitalist system rich people can make money without working.
Samuel Johnson, often referred to as Dr Johnson, was an English writer who made lasting contributions to English literature as a poet, playwright, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor, and lexicographer. Religiously, he was a devout Anglican, and politically a committed Tory. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography describes Johnson as "arguably the most distinguished man of letters in English history". He is the subject of James Boswell's The Life of Samuel Johnson, described by Walter Jackson Bate as "the most famous single work of biographical art in the whole of literature".
