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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.
Price fixing does not represent simply windfall gains and losses to particular groups according to whether the price happens to read more
Price fixing does not represent simply windfall gains and losses to particular groups according to whether the price happens to be set higher or lower than it would be otherwise. It represents a net lose to the economy as a whole to the extent that many transactions do not take place at all, because the mutually acceptable possibilities have been reduced.
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.
The greatest productive force is human selfishness.
The greatest productive force is human selfishness.
People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays; men have to work and women to marry for money. read more
People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays; men have to work and women to marry for money. It's a dreadfully unjust world.
Debt is the worst poverty.
Debt is the worst poverty.
No one has a greater asset for his business than a man's pride in his work.
No one has a greater asset for his business than a man's pride in his work.
Honor sinks where commerce long prevails.
Honor sinks where commerce long prevails.
The Trojans lost the war because they fell for a really dumb trick. hey, there's a gigantic wooden horse outside read more
The Trojans lost the war because they fell for a really dumb trick. hey, there's a gigantic wooden horse outside and all the Greeks have left. Let's bring it inside! Not a formula for long-term survival. Now if they had formed a task force to study the Trojan Horse and report back to a committee, everyone wouldn't have been massacred.. Who says middle management is useless?
