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    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.

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The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.

The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.

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Sudden money is going from zero to two hundred dollars a week. The rest doesn't count.

Sudden money is going from zero to two hundred dollars a week. The rest doesn't count.

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If money be not they servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to read more

If money be not they servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.

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Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of read more

Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the economic body - the producers and consumers themselves.

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Make sure you want it enough.

Make sure you want it enough.

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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.

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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.

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The only point in making money is, you can tell some big shot where to go.

The only point in making money is, you can tell some big shot where to go.

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Bulls make money. Bears make money. Pigs get slaughtered.

Bulls make money. Bears make money. Pigs get slaughtered.

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