...Business School we give money a lot of attention. We don't see it as evil. Not at all." "Dr. Johnson said, 'There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.' " Another professor had intervened. "He also said, "It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.'...

...privatized and valorized. Dr Johnson - a moral rigorist, yet also a hard-nosed realist - was confident that 'there are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money', 28 and when Adam Smith's mentor, Francis Hutcheson, proposed his distinction between the violent and...

...privatized and valorized. Dr Johnson - a moral rigorist, yet also a hard-nosed realist - was confident that 'there are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money',28 and when Adam Smith's mentor, Francis Hutcheson, proposed his distinction between the violent...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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"...