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Honor sinks where commerce long prevails.
Honor sinks where commerce long prevails.
Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.
Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.
If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so too.
If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so too.
The standard of living has risen along with the size of the world's population since the beginning of recorded time. read more
The standard of living has risen along with the size of the world's population since the beginning of recorded time. There is no convincing economic reason why these trends toward a better life should not continue indefinitely.
High premiums are being paid today not particularly for quality service or long-term building of a business but rather for read more
High premiums are being paid today not particularly for quality service or long-term building of a business but rather for making money quickly, getting rich, and getting out. And that's wrong.
Money isn't everything… but it ranks right up there with oxygen.
Money isn't everything… but it ranks right up there with oxygen.
A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.
A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.
The promise of yesterday are the taxes of today.
The promise of yesterday are the taxes of today.
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.
