253 Quotes by James Cook

Winning a lottery may prove to be bad luck.

We are destroying capitalism to pay for socialism.

Whatever you do without confidence will be done badly.

What is still more to our shame as civilized Christians, we debauch their morals already too prone to vice, and we introduce among them wants and perhaps disease which they never before knew and which serve only to disturb that happy tranquility which they and their forefathers enjoyed. If anyone denies the truth of this assertion, let him tell me what the natives of the whole extent of America have gained by the commerce they have had with Europeans.

No matter how great your wisdom, you can still make a fool of yourself.

It's impossible for a dishonest person to grow rich in business.

Nothing is more difficult than to make a profit.

Money without wisdom diminishes the pleasure and enjoyment of wealth.

Going without a thing enhances the desire to get it.