If patriotism is, as Dr. Johnson used to remark, the last refuge of the scoundrel, wrapping outdated industry in the mantle of national interest is the last refuge of the economically dispossessed. In economic terms, pleading national interest is the declining cottage industry of those who have been bypassed by the global economy.
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You don't manage people; you manage things. You lead people.
You don't manage people; you manage things. You lead people.
Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and read more
Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and a great national debt.
If you have to forecast, forecast often.
If you have to forecast, forecast often.
If you wish to prosper, let your customer prosper.When people have learned this lesson, everyone will seek his individual welfare read more
If you wish to prosper, let your customer prosper.When people have learned this lesson, everyone will seek his individual welfare in the general welfare. Then jealousies between man and man, city and city, province and province, nation and nation, will no longer trouble the world.
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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.
The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money.
The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money.
Most people...find a disorientating mismatch between the long-term nature of their liabilities and the increasingly short-term nature of their assets.
Most people...find a disorientating mismatch between the long-term nature of their liabilities and the increasingly short-term nature of their assets.
Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.
Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.
