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90% of the people in the stock market, professionals and amateurs alike, simply haven't done enough homework.
90% of the people in the stock market, professionals and amateurs alike, simply haven't done enough homework.
It is surprising, in the welter of questions that one gets at (AGMs), how few actually relate to the performance read more
It is surprising, in the welter of questions that one gets at (AGMs), how few actually relate to the performance of the company, or the decisions taken by the board in particular areas.
Anybody can cut prices, but it takes brains to produce a better article.
Anybody can cut prices, but it takes brains to produce a better article.
We do not hear the term "compassionate" applied to business executives or entrepreneurs, certainly not when they are engaged in read more
We do not hear the term "compassionate" applied to business executives or entrepreneurs, certainly not when they are engaged in their normal work. Yet in terms of results in the measurable form of jobs created, lives enriched, communities built, living standards raised, and poverty healed, a handful of capitalists has done infinitely more for mankind than all the self-serving politicians, academics, social workers, and religionists who march under the banner of "compassion".
There is no glory in outstripping donkeys.
There is no glory in outstripping donkeys.
If you can run one business well, you can run any business well.
If you can run one business well, you can run any business well.
The principles applied in economic processes are general social principles.
The principles applied in economic processes are general social principles.
Only the little people pay taxes.
Only the little people pay taxes.
Economics is a theoretical science and as such abstains from any judgement of value. It is not its task to read more
Economics is a theoretical science and as such abstains from any judgement of value. It is not its task to tell people what ends they should aim at. It is a science of the means to be applied for attainment of ends chosen, not, to be sure, a science of the choosing of ends. Ultimate decisions, the valuations and the choosing of ends, are beyond the scope of any science. Science never tells a man how he should act; it merely shows how a man must act if he wants to attain definite ends.
