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Don't buy the house, buy the neighborhood.
Don't buy the house, buy the neighborhood.
He that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent. [Proverbs 28:20].
He that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent. [Proverbs 28:20].
Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. It can't be done except by liars.
Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. It can't be done except by liars.
People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays; men have to work and women to marry for money. read more
People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays; men have to work and women to marry for money. It's a dreadfully unjust world.
Based on first-hand evidence of your own senses - the improved health and later ages at which acquaintances die nowadays read more
Based on first-hand evidence of your own senses - the improved health and later ages at which acquaintances die nowadays as compared with the past; the material goods that we now possess; the speed at which information, entertainment, and we ourselves move freely throughout the world - it seems to me that a person must be literally deaf and blind not to perceive that humanity is in a much better state than ever before.
The most important benefit of population size and growth is the increase it brings to the stock of useful knowledge. read more
The most important benefit of population size and growth is the increase it brings to the stock of useful knowledge. Minds matter economically as much as, or more than, hands or mouths.
Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.
Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.
Perhaps the most widespread misunderstanding of economics is that it applies solely to financial transactions. Frequently this leads to statements read more
Perhaps the most widespread misunderstanding of economics is that it applies solely to financial transactions. Frequently this leads to statements that "there are noneconomic values" to consider. There are, of course, noneconomic values. Indeed, there are only noneconomic values. Economics is not a value itself but merely a method of trading off one value against another.
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?
