There is only one institution that can arrogate to itself the power legally to trade by means of rubber checks: the government. And it is the only institution that can mortgage your future without your knowledge or consent: government securities (and paper money) are promissory notes on future tax receipts, i.e., on your future production.

Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think.

Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.

When you force a man to act against his own choice and judgment, it's his thinking that you want him to suspend.

When a man declares: "There are no blacks and whites [in morality]" he is making a psychological confession, and what he means is: "I am unwilling to be wholly good - and please don't regard me as wholly evil!"

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

I want to be prepared to claim the greatest virtue of all - that I was a man who made money