Usually the greatest boasters are the smallest workers. The deep rivers pay a larger tribute to the sea than shallow read more

Usually the greatest boasters are the smallest workers. The deep rivers pay a larger tribute to the sea than shallow brooks, and yet empty themselves with less noise.

The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.

The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.

Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard).

Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard).

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.

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.

The increase in the world's population represents our victory against death...

The increase in the world's population represents our victory against death...

If you marry for money, you will surely earn it.

If you marry for money, you will surely earn it.

A fool and his money are soon parted. - Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry.

A fool and his money are soon parted. - Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry.

Many of the products which create a modern standard of living are only the physical incorporations of ideas- not only read more

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.