Many of the products which create a modern standard of living are only the physical incorporations of ideas- not only read more

Many of the products which create a modern standard of living are only the physical incorporations of ideas- not only the ideas of an Edison or a Ford but the ideas of innumerable anonymous people who figure out the design of supermarkets, the location of gasoline stations, and the million mundane things on which our material well-being depends. Societies which have more people carrying out physical acts and fewer people supplying ideas do not have higher standards of living. Quite the contrary.

Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.

Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.

This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares; she never read more

This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares; she never gives them. In some form or other, we pay for her favors; or we go empty away.

A gift blinds the wise and perverts the words of the righteous.

A gift blinds the wise and perverts the words of the righteous.

The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time.

The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time.

A computer will not make a good manager out of a bad manager. It makes a good manager better faster read more

A computer will not make a good manager out of a bad manager. It makes a good manager better faster and a bad manager worse faster.

Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.

Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.

By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.

By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.

If you love your customer to death, you can't go wrong.

If you love your customer to death, you can't go wrong.