Neither limits nor adversity are what ruin men. Under pressure, they handle themselves pretty well. It’s the lack of limits they can’t handle. That’s when they run amok. So, if you really want to see what a man is made of let him think he can get away with something.

Both the liberal and the conservative are in agreement: it is all very well to let the people alone, but only if they do what you want them to do.

A man on his owns knows that he is best advised to leave his dumbbell neighbors alone. But let him join a political party, and he fantasizes that he has the right and the power to tell everyone on the block what to do.

Harness the Power of Accelerated Failure - the faster you fail, the faster you succeed.

A man's wealth can...also be measured by what he doesn't have and doesn't want. When he wants little, he is a rich man.

If you look carefully, almost all Old Money secrets can be traced to a single source: a longer-term outlook.

Remember, government is not an enlightened organization designed to promote public welfare. It is barbaric, uncivilized force…military and police power put to the service of the insiders who control it. Yes, there are constraints on the way the insiders use their power. There are ‘checks and balances,’ built into the constitution, for example. And there are cultural norms and traditional prohibitions. But eventually, the norms and traditions wear off, like painkillers. And then, the pain of raw government begins again.