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It takes all the fun out of a bracelet if you have to buy it yourself.
It takes all the fun out of a bracelet if you have to buy it yourself.
All people, however fanatical they may be in their zeal to disparage and to fight capitalism, implicitly pay homage to read more
All people, however fanatical they may be in their zeal to disparage and to fight capitalism, implicitly pay homage to it by passionately clamoring for the products it turns out.
The rich adopt novelties and become accustomed to their use. This sets a fashion which others imitate. Once the richer read more
The rich adopt novelties and become accustomed to their use. This sets a fashion which others imitate. Once the richer classes have adopted a certain way of living, producers have an incentive to improve the methods of manufacture so that soon it is possible for the poorer classes to follow suit. Thus luxury furthers progress. Innovation "is the whim of an elite before it becomes a need of the public. The luxury today is the necessity of tomorrow." Luxury is the roadmaker of progress: it develops latent needs and makes people discontented. In so far as they think consistently, moralists who condemn luxury must recommend the comparatively desireless existence of the wild life roaming in the woods as the ultimate ideal of civilized life.
You cannot have the success without the failures.
You cannot have the success without the failures.
There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there.
There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there.
Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information read more
Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated.
As the science of economics...exploded the fallacies of every brand of utopianism, it was outlawed and stigmatized as unscientific.
As the science of economics...exploded the fallacies of every brand of utopianism, it was outlawed and stigmatized as unscientific.
Every day is a gift- even if it sucks.
Every day is a gift- even if it sucks.
90% of the people in the stock market, professionals and amateurs alike, simply haven't done enough homework.
90% of the people in the stock market, professionals and amateurs alike, simply haven't done enough homework.
