Charles Adams quotes

“The essence of good advertising is not to inspire hope, but to create greed.”
-- Charles Adams

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“We can't live without taxes, but we sure would like to have good ones.”
-- Charles Adams

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“If someone's going to publish a book about addiction, it has to say something new and different. It has to be something we haven't read before. A lot of these books are published because the writing is wonderful. The Frey book has superb writing, and that can be enough to sell a book.”
-- Charles Adams

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“Though tax records are generally looked upon as a nuisance, the day may come when historians will realize that tax records tell the real story behind civilized life. How people were taxed, who was taxed, and what was taxed tell more about a society than anything else. Tax habits could be to civilization what sex habits are to personality. They are basic clues to the way a society behaves.”
-- Charles Adams

Source : Charles Adams (1993). “For Good and Evil: The Impact of Taxes on the Course of Civilization”, p.21, Rowman & Littlefield

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“Of course, the advantage is that, being in this business, you get to learn a lot, experience a lot of new things, and you can become real successful. The disadvantage is, of course the negative media. People may try to manipulate you and control you, and those are the things you have to avoid. But if you maintain strong family values and you believe in God, you can be successful. So, it's been tough, but I've gotten through it because I stuck with my family and my deep belief in God.”

“If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we'd all be millionaires.”

Source : "Invest in Life Experiences" by Sean Kim, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 11, 2014.

“Ethics and religion must not stay at home when we go to work.”

“The essence of trade unionism is social uplift. The labor movement has been the haven for the dispossessed, the despised, the neglected, the downtrodden, the poor.”

“No state, upon its own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union. Plainly, the central idea of secession, is the essence of anarchy.”

“Only those blinded by greed would refuse to let a friend make a copy.”

“Greed is permanent slavery”

“It's our greed to extract more and more from good that turns it into evil.”

Source : Amish Tripathi (2015). “The Shiva Trilogy: Omnibus”, p.661, Hachette UK

“Time! Joyless emblem of the greed of millions, robber of the best which earth can give.”

“While neurological studies have tried to identify components responsible for fear and greed, the impact on finance is less clear.”