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No one has a greater asset for his business than a man's pride in his work.
No one has a greater asset for his business than a man's pride in his work.
I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service.
I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service.
In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal read more
In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.
Today is a... digital incarnation of Oz - the Internet - we are a motley group of fools from lions read more
Today is a... digital incarnation of Oz - the Internet - we are a motley group of fools from lions to scarecrows, learning from each other, making and taking responsibility for our decisions, and having fun as we skip down the yellow brick road of investing together!
Whether he admits it or not, a man has been brought up to look at money as a sign of read more
Whether he admits it or not, a man has been brought up to look at money as a sign of his virility, a symbol of his power, a bigger phallic symbol than a Porsche.
My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions, but in the fewness of my wants.
My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions, but in the fewness of my wants.
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.
Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.
Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.
Many of the products which create a modern standard of living are only the physical incorporations of ideas- not only read more
Many of the products which create a modern standard of living are only the physical incorporations of ideas- not only the ideas of an Edison or a Ford but the ideas of innumerable anonymous people who figure out the design of supermarkets, the location of gasoline stations, and the million mundane things on which our material well-being depends. Societies which have more people carrying out physical acts and fewer people supplying ideas do not have higher standards of living. Quite the contrary.