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The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.
The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.
When you hire people that are smarter than you are, you prove you are smarter than they are.
When you hire people that are smarter than you are, you prove you are smarter than they are.
In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense read more
In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known -- that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness.
...we see that there are two different kinds of...societies: (a) parasitic societies and (b) producing societies. The former are those read more
...we see that there are two different kinds of...societies: (a) parasitic societies and (b) producing societies. The former are those which live from hunting, fishing, or merely gleaning. By their economic activities they do not increase, but rather decrease, the amount of wealth in the world. The second kind of societies, producing societies, live by agricultural and pastoral activities. By these activities they seek to increase the amount of wealth in the world.
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.
Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and read more
Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and a great national debt.
Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.
Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.
Each man is the smith of his own fortune.
Each man is the smith of his own fortune.
As the science of economics...exploded the fallacies of every brand of utopianism, it was outlawed and stigmatized as unscientific.
As the science of economics...exploded the fallacies of every brand of utopianism, it was outlawed and stigmatized as unscientific.