It is your mind that matters economically, as much or more than your mouth or hands. In the long run, the most important economic effect of population size and growth is the contribution of additional people to our stock of useful knowledge. And this contribution is large enough in the long run to overcome all the costs of population growth.
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Managing directors are not paid to be busy, they are paid to think.
Managing directors are not paid to be busy, they are paid to think.
The most important benefit of population size and growth is the increase it brings to the stock of useful knowledge. read more
The most important benefit of population size and growth is the increase it brings to the stock of useful knowledge. Minds matter economically as much as, or more than, hands or mouths.
For me, hard work represents the supreme luxury of life.
For me, hard work represents the supreme luxury of life.
We do not hear the term "compassionate" applied to business executives or entrepreneurs, certainly not when they are engaged in read more
We do not hear the term "compassionate" applied to business executives or entrepreneurs, certainly not when they are engaged in their normal work. Yet in terms of results in the measurable form of jobs created, lives enriched, communities built, living standards raised, and poverty healed, a handful of capitalists has done infinitely more for mankind than all the self-serving politicians, academics, social workers, and religionists who march under the banner of "compassion".
I get so tired listening to one million dollars here, one million dollars there, it's so petty.
I get so tired listening to one million dollars here, one million dollars there, it's so petty.
Few great men could pass personal.
Few great men could pass personal.
The question is, then, do we try to make things easy on ourselves or do we try to make things read more
The question is, then, do we try to make things easy on ourselves or do we try to make things easy on our customers, whoever they may be?.
There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking.
There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking.
If you marry for money, you will surely earn it.
If you marry for money, you will surely earn it.
