There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking.

I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expense, and my expense is equal to my wishes.

Business, that's easily defined; it's other people's money.

Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded- here and there, now and then- are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty.This is known as "bad luck.".

...the only means to well-being is to increase the quantity of products. This is what business aims at.

Economics is not about things and tangible material objects; it is about men, their meanings and actions.