When we are in competition with ourselves, and match our todays against our yesterdays, we derive encouragement from past misfortunes read more

When we are in competition with ourselves, and match our todays against our yesterdays, we derive encouragement from past misfortunes and blemishes. Moreover, the competition with ourselves leaves unimpaired our benevolence toward our fellow men.

Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard).

Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard).

You cannot have the success without the failures.

You cannot have the success without the failures.

Usually the greatest boasters are the smallest workers. The deep rivers pay a larger tribute to the sea than shallow read more

Usually the greatest boasters are the smallest workers. The deep rivers pay a larger tribute to the sea than shallow brooks, and yet empty themselves with less noise.

You don't manage people; you manage things. You lead people.

You don't manage people; you manage things. You lead people.

It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to read more

It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.

I work in a strange business, and trust is a word that's not even in the vocabulary.

I work in a strange business, and trust is a word that's not even in the vocabulary.

This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares; she never read more

This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares; she never gives them. In some form or other, we pay for her favors; or we go empty away.

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.