It's not your salary that makes you rich, it's your spending habits.

It's not your salary that makes you rich, it's your spending habits.

There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.

There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.

The rich adopt novelties and become accustomed to their use. This sets a fashion which others imitate. Once the richer read more

The rich adopt novelties and become accustomed to their use. This sets a fashion which others imitate. Once the richer classes have adopted a certain way of living, producers have an incentive to improve the methods of manufacture so that soon it is possible for the poorer classes to follow suit. Thus luxury furthers progress. Innovation "is the whim of an elite before it becomes a need of the public. The luxury today is the necessity of tomorrow." Luxury is the roadmaker of progress: it develops latent needs and makes people discontented. In so far as they think consistently, moralists who condemn luxury must recommend the comparatively desireless existence of the wild life roaming in the woods as the ultimate ideal of civilized life.

All mass movements avail themselves of action as a means of unification. The conflicts a mass movement seeks and incites read more

All mass movements avail themselves of action as a means of unification. The conflicts a mass movement seeks and incites serve not only to down its enemies but also to strip its followers of their distinct individuality and render them more soluble in the collective medium.

Every individual is the architect of his own fortune.

Every individual is the architect of his own fortune.

Our job is not to set things right but to see them right.

Our job is not to set things right but to see them right.

Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information read more

Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated.

Make sure you want it enough.

Make sure you want it enough.

Capital can do nothing without brains to direct it.

Capital can do nothing without brains to direct it.