Greater consumption due to increase in population and growth of income heightens scarcity and induces price run-ups. A higher price read more

Greater consumption due to increase in population and growth of income heightens scarcity and induces price run-ups. A higher price represents an opportunity that leads inventors and businesspeople to seek new ways to satisfy the shortages. Some fail, at cost to themselves. A few succeed, and the final result is that we end up better off than if the original shortage problems had never arisen. That is, we need our problems, though this does not imply that we should purposely create additional problems for ourselves.

It is time that financial types developed a greater tolerance for imprecision, because that’s the way the world is.

It is time that financial types developed a greater tolerance for imprecision, because that’s the way the world is.

The monstrous evils of the twentieth century have shown us that the greediest money grubbers are gentle doves compared with read more

The monstrous evils of the twentieth century have shown us that the greediest money grubbers are gentle doves compared with money-hating wolves like Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler, who in less than three decades killed or maimed nearly a hundred million men, women, and children and brought untold suffering to a large portion of mankind.

Managers have traditionally developed the skills in finance, planning, marketing and production techniques. Too often the relationships with their people read more

Managers have traditionally developed the skills in finance, planning, marketing and production techniques. Too often the relationships with their people have been assigned a secondary role. This is too important a subject not to receive first line attention.

A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often read more

A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often has no opportunity to exercise judgment.

Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service; by the idea that "he profits most read more

Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service; by the idea that "he profits most who serves best" and I will show you a man or an outfit that is dead or dying.

We Asians are the original Conservatives because for thousands of years we have believed in free enterprise… you have just read more

We Asians are the original Conservatives because for thousands of years we have believed in free enterprise… you have just stolen our philosophy.

The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers.

The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers.

Profits are like breathing. You have to have them. But who would stay alive just to breathe?

Profits are like breathing. You have to have them. But who would stay alive just to breathe?