If, however, economic ambitions are good servants, they are bad masters.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Money is in some respects life's fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master.
The world is not looking for servants, there are plenty of these, but for masters, men who form their purposes and then carry them out, let the consequences be what they may.
Our goal is to make finance the servant, not the master, of the real economy.
Good leaders must first become good servants.
It is a very difficult job, being the servant of two masters.
Economy, prudence, and a simple life are the sure masters of need, and will often accomplish that which, their opposites, with a fortune at hand, will fail to do.
Good masters teach good doctrine, but that taught by evil masters is wholly evil.
In my opinion, a master is morally obliged to seize every sort of opportunity and to try to solve the problems of the position without fear of some simplifications.
Workers in decent jobs view the economy as unjust if they or their children have virtually no chance of climbing to a higher rung in the socioeconomic ladder.
Good servants frequently make good masters.