Robert Heilbroner Quotes About Wealth

Quotes about: Wealth

• Very few of the heroes of the Golden Age of American finance had much interest in the solid realities of what underlay their structure of stocks and bonds and credits. Later on, a Henry Ford might introduce an era of intensely production-minded captains of industry, but the Harrimans, Morgans, Fricks, and Rockefellers were far more interested in the exciting manipulation of huge masses of intangible wealth than in the humdrum business of turning out goods.

  Robert Heilbroner

  Hero, Reality, Age

  "The Worldly Philosophers". Book by Robert Heilbroner, Chapter VIII, Thorstein Veblen (p. 224), 1953.

• The Wealth of Nations may not be an original book, but it is unquestionably a masterpiece.

  Robert Heilbroner

  Book, May, Wealth

  Robert L. Heilbroner (1955). “The Great Economists: Their Lives and Their Conceptions of the World”

• Economists can be called the worldly philosophers for they sought to embrace in a scheme of philosophy the most worldly of man's activities-his drive for wealth.

  Robert Heilbroner

  Philosophy, Men, Philosopher

  The Worldly Philosophers introduction (1953)

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