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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.
Each man is the smith of his own fortune.
Each man is the smith of his own fortune.
Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.
Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.
The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.
The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.
Price fixing does not represent simply windfall gains and losses to particular groups according to whether the price happens to read more
Price fixing does not represent simply windfall gains and losses to particular groups according to whether the price happens to be set higher or lower than it would be otherwise. It represents a net lose to the economy as a whole to the extent that many transactions do not take place at all, because the mutually acceptable possibilities have been reduced.
More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.
More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.
I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.
I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.
Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.
Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.
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.
