Our whole evolution up to this point shows that human groups spontaneously evolve patterns of behavior, as well as patterns read more

Our whole evolution up to this point shows that human groups spontaneously evolve patterns of behavior, as well as patterns of training people for that behavior, which tend on balance to lead people to create rather than destroy. Humans are, on net balance, builders rather than destroyers.

90% of the people in the stock market, professionals and amateurs alike, simply haven't done enough homework.

90% of the people in the stock market, professionals and amateurs alike, simply haven't done enough homework.

Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.

Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.

You cannot have the success without the failures.

You cannot have the success without the failures.

We Asians are the original Conservatives because for thousands of years we have believed in free enterprise… you have just read more

We Asians are the original Conservatives because for thousands of years we have believed in free enterprise… you have just stolen our philosophy.

The tougher the job, the greater the reward.

The tougher the job, the greater the reward.

Business is a means- the only means- to increase the quantity of goods available for preserving life and rendering it read more

Business is a means- the only means- to increase the quantity of goods available for preserving life and rendering it more agreeable.

Value is not intrinsic; it is not in things. It is within us; it is the way in which man read more

Value is not intrinsic; it is not in things. It is within us; it is the way in which man reacts to the conditions of his environment.

Many of the products which create a modern standard of living are only the physical incorporations of ideas- not only read more

Many of the products which create a modern standard of living are only the physical incorporations of ideas- not only the ideas of an Edison or a Ford but the ideas of innumerable anonymous people who figure out the design of supermarkets, the location of gasoline stations, and the million mundane things on which our material well-being depends. Societies which have more people carrying out physical acts and fewer people supplying ideas do not have higher standards of living. Quite the contrary.