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Not understanding the process of a spontaneously-ordered economy goes hand-in-hand with not understanding the creation of resources and wealth. And read more
Not understanding the process of a spontaneously-ordered economy goes hand-in-hand with not understanding the creation of resources and wealth. And when a person does not understand the creation of resources and wealth, the only intellectual alternative is to believe that increasing wealth must be at the cost of someone else. This belief that our good fortune must be an exploitation of others may be the taproot of false prophecy about doom that our evil ways must bring upon us.
Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service, by the idea that "he profits most read more
Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service, by the idea that "he profits most who serves best," and I will show you a man or an outfit that is dead or dying. -B. F. Harris.
Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching for what read more
Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching for what it gets.
Every day is a gift- even if it sucks.
Every day is a gift- even if it sucks.
The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
And ours is a business that requires discipline and focus.
And ours is a business that requires discipline and focus.
Most important for us is a good spiritual relationship between employees and management.
Most important for us is a good spiritual relationship between employees and management.
Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other read more
Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.
Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.
