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Based on first-hand evidence of your own senses - the improved health and later ages at which acquaintances die nowadays read more
Based on first-hand evidence of your own senses - the improved health and later ages at which acquaintances die nowadays as compared with the past; the material goods that we now possess; the speed at which information, entertainment, and we ourselves move freely throughout the world - it seems to me that a person must be literally deaf and blind not to perceive that humanity is in a much better state than ever before.
If you want to give a man credit, put it in writing. If you want to give him hell, do read more
If you want to give a man credit, put it in writing. If you want to give him hell, do it on the phone.
Because bankers measure their self-worth in money, and pay themselves a lot of it, they think they're fine fellows and read more
Because bankers measure their self-worth in money, and pay themselves a lot of it, they think they're fine fellows and don't need to explain themselves.
Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.
Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.
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.
My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions, but in the fewness of my wants.
My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions, but in the fewness of my wants.
The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.
The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.
Money is something you got to make in case you don't die.
Money is something you got to make in case you don't die.
The morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men read more
The morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised. I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.
