People are not embracing collectivism because they have accepted bad economics. They are accepting bad economics because they have embraced collectivism.

Psychologically, the choice "to think or not" is the choice "to focus or not." Existentially, the choice "to focus or not" is the choice "to be conscious or not." Metaphysically, the choice "to be conscious or not" is the choice of life or death.

A rational man knows-or makes it a point to discover-the source of his emotions, the basic premises from which they come.

Hence the sterile, uninspiring futility of a great many theoretical discussions of ethics, and the resentment which many people feel towards such discussions: moral principles remain in their minds as floating abstractions, offering them a goal they cannot grasp and demanding that they reshape their souls in its image, thus leaving them with a burden of undefinable moral guilt.

Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.

You must be the kind of man who can get things done. But to get things done, you must love the doing, not the secondary consequences.

Money is so noble a medium that it does not compete with guns and it does not make terms with brutality. It will not permit a country to survive as half-property, half-loot.