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The problem with the person who thinks he's a long-term investor and impervious to short-term gyrations is that the emotion read more
The problem with the person who thinks he's a long-term investor and impervious to short-term gyrations is that the emotion of fear and pain will eventually make him sell badly.
It's not your salary that makes you rich, it's your spending habits.
It's not your salary that makes you rich, it's your spending habits.
Every day is a gift- even if it sucks.
Every day is a gift- even if it sucks.
The meaning of economic freedom is this: that the individual is in a position to choose the way in which read more
The meaning of economic freedom is this: that the individual is in a position to choose the way in which he wants to integrate himself into the totality of society.
To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine read more
To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure.
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.
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.
Economics is a theoretical science and as such abstains from any judgement of value. It is not its task to read more
Economics is a theoretical science and as such abstains from any judgement of value. It is not its task to tell people what ends they should aim at. It is a science of the means to be applied for attainment of ends chosen, not, to be sure, a science of the choosing of ends. Ultimate decisions, the valuations and the choosing of ends, are beyond the scope of any science. Science never tells a man how he should act; it merely shows how a man must act if he wants to attain definite ends.
Only little people pay taxes.
Only little people pay taxes.
