capitalism

A man isn't a man until he has to meet a payroll.

Luck is infatuated with the efficient.

Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.

Commerce is greedy. Ideology is blood-thirsty.

You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot help the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer. You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.

All professions are a conspiracy against the country.

I am a Millionaire. That is my religion.

Twenty generations ago - around the year 1390 - you had 1 048 576 ancestors. In the 21st generation of your family that number will double again.

It is an economic axiom as old as the hills that goods and services can be paid for only with goods and services.

Patience is a most necessary quality for business many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.

As one retiring chief executive said to his successor "Yesterday was the last day you heard the truth from your subordinates."

Expansion means complexity and complexity decay.

Business is a combination of war and sport.

Competition means decentralized planning by many separate persons.

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble-making individual.

If you fail to plan you plan to fail.

In economics the majority is always wrong.

Pounds are the sons not of pounds but of pence.