When the people shall have nothing more to eat, they will eat the rich.

Businesses owned by responsible and organized merchants shall eventually surpass those owned by wealthy rulers.

Reducing the consumption flow by rich people taking all the money is fun (if you’re rich) … at least for a while. ...In ten years, a new consumer class must emerge to continue to the devouring trend of consumption. IF NOT, the top falls from its own weight. The top dogs of global economic market cannot munch their way through product consumption to keep the show going. The result … CRASH!

People are frugal in guarding their personal property; but as soon as it comes to squandering time they are most wasteful of the one thing in which it is right to be stingy.

The avaricious are thrifty with time as well as money.

Many first possess wealth, and are then possessed by it.

A nation or an individual, will do wisely to direct consumption chiefly to those articles, that are longest time in wearing out, and the most frequently in use.

Qui dépense trop n’est jamais riche.

When the poor have nothing more to eat, they will eat the rich.

Quand la religion et la royauté seront abattues, le peuple en viendra aux grands, après les grands il s'en prendra aux riches.

[T]he problem is... if the wealth pump is allowed to run long enough, eventually... the growing elite numbers and their consumption levels will overshoot the productive base, which is what the workers are producing.

If you’re around people who spend all they make, chances are excellent that you’ll spend all you make.

An important
distinction is that rich people buy luxuries last, while the poor and middle
class tend to buy luxuries first.

When the individual has a lot of money to spend. individualism becomes a powerful. and profitable, worldview.