People who are in a fortunate position always attribute virtue to what makes them so happy.

The great dialectic in our time is not, as anciently and by some still supposed, between capital and labor; it is between economic enterprise and the state.

There's a certain part of the contented majority who love anybody who is worth a billion dollars.

We can safely abandon the doctrine of the eighties, namely that the rich were not working because they had too little money, the poor because they had much.

It is the fortunate who should extol fortune.

I've been lucky. I'll be lucky again.

Und nichts Boses wachst mehr furderhin aus dir, es sei denn das Bose, das aus dem Kampfe deiner Tugenden wachst. Mein Bruder, wenn du Gluck hast, so hast du Ei…