The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines staffed by IRS read more

The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you ask them a real tax question, such as how you can cheat, they're useless. So, for guidance, you want to look to big business. Big business never pays a nickel in taxes, according to Ralph Nader, who represents a big consumer organization that never pays a nickel in taxes...

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?

I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Save a little money each month and at the end of the year you'll be surprised at how little you read more

Save a little money each month and at the end of the year you'll be surprised at how little you have.

Energetic action on debt would make a radical difference to the prospects of many of the poorest countries in the read more

Energetic action on debt would make a radical difference to the prospects of many of the poorest countries in the world, at no practical cost to creditor countries.

The Trojans lost the war because they fell for a really dumb trick. hey, there's a gigantic wooden horse outside read more

The Trojans lost the war because they fell for a really dumb trick. hey, there's a gigantic wooden horse outside and all the Greeks have left. Let's bring it inside! Not a formula for long-term survival. Now if they had formed a task force to study the Trojan Horse and report back to a committee, everyone wouldn't have been massacred.. Who says middle management is useless?

Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.

Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.

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.