...thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did. —James Baldwin There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money. CHAPTER CHECKLIST * Cutting Your Losses * Efforts from the Firm * Collection Agencies » Filing Suit...

...most forms of successful economic activity is recognized in Dr. Johnson's familiar observation that "there are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money." throughout the West — and, indeed, elsewhere, as shown by the many Chinese nouveaux riches in the...

...Bestrebens bedient, die orientalischen Despotien und selbst die künftigen Sozialismen erst recht). There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money. SAMUEL JOHNSON in: ftoswell: Ufe ofS.J., Part V (Kaum ein Verfahren ist geeigneter, sich eines Manns...

...Acquisitiveness could discipline lust, violence, idleness, or rebelliousness. As Samuel Johnson summarized, "There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money." John Evelyn rhapsodized a century earlier that "the miracles of commerce taught us Religion, instructed...

...the pursuit of money. Not that he had anything against this. Though he did not quote Dr. Johnson — "there are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money" — his own attitude was much the same. But the pursuit of money did not, in his view, give as much...

...old connotations of unrestrainable enthusiasm, intensity, and violence. Samuel Johnson's claim that "there are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money" may, as Hirschman says, underestimate the social consequences of capitalism," but it perfectly captures...

...railcar-making machinery.22 At least one can in a modern capitalist society. THE RICH Mr. Strahan put Johnson in mind of a remark which he had made to him; "There...this, (said Strahan,) the juster it will appear'' — Johnson, Boswell's Life There are geniuses in trade, as well as in war. . . . Nature seems to authorize...

...is characterized by a desire as innocent as any dignity. "Go for Profit. Samuel Johnson once said: 'There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money'" (McCormack 1984, 202). This capacity is inherent in everyone: "Most people, I believe, are born salesmen"...

...enabled to defend impulses and actions formerly condemned as reprehensible. Samuel Johnson's witticism, "There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money," spoke to the general acceptance of a universe of worldly pursuits and the need to get on with making...

...was ll. Montesquieu's propitious image of capitalism reflects the famous line by Dr. Samuel Johnson, "There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money" (Boswell l933, I, 657). It was John Maynard Keynes who wrote, "It is better that a man should tyrannize...