It is your mind that matters economically, as much or more than your mouth or hands. In the long run, read more

It is your mind that matters economically, as much or more than your mouth or hands. In the long run, the most important economic effect of population size and growth is the contribution of additional people to our stock of useful knowledge. And this contribution is large enough in the long run to overcome all the costs of population growth.

For me, hard work represents the supreme luxury of life.

For me, hard work represents the supreme luxury of life.

Economics is first and foremost about the thoughts leading up to choice.

Economics is first and foremost about the thoughts leading up to choice.

If a man does his best, what else is there?

If a man does his best, what else is there?

He needn't reach the stars..
stars' light reaches him..
He needn't climb to God.
Inside him .. Elohim.

He needn't reach the stars..
stars' light reaches him..
He needn't climb to God.
Inside him .. Elohim.

A bad forgery's the ultimate insult.

A bad forgery's the ultimate insult.

Avarice is the vice of declining years.

Avarice is the vice of declining years.

Money doesn't talk, it swears.

Money doesn't talk, it swears.

Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded- here and there, read more

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.".