We do not hear the term "compassionate" applied to business executives or entrepreneurs, certainly not when they are engaged in read more

We do not hear the term "compassionate" applied to business executives or entrepreneurs, certainly not when they are engaged in their normal work. Yet in terms of results in the measurable form of jobs created, lives enriched, communities built, living standards raised, and poverty healed, a handful of capitalists has done infinitely more for mankind than all the self-serving politicians, academics, social workers, and religionists who march under the banner of "compassion".

The politicians don't just want your money. They want your soul. They want you to be worn down by taxes read more

The politicians don't just want your money. They want your soul. They want you to be worn down by taxes until you are dependent and helpless. When you subsidize poverty and failure, you get more of both.

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.

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.

Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not read more

Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.

It is your people who make the ultimate difference. You put the investment into training the people and then, when read more

It is your people who make the ultimate difference. You put the investment into training the people and then, when you get invited to the party with the big boys, that is a unique selling point.

Economics is not about things and tangible material objects; it is about men, their meanings and actions.

Economics is not about things and tangible material objects; it is about men, their meanings and actions.

The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers.

The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers.

Business, that's easily defined; it's other people's money.

Business, that's easily defined; it's other people's money.