Determine value apart from price; progress apart from activity; wealth apart from size.

A lot of success in life and business comes from knowing what you want to avoid: early death, a bad marriage, etc.

Even if you assume that the whole economy would work better had we never had double taxation, having the envy and resentment of the richest paying low or no taxes screams of injustice. You have to have a fair system.

'F.A.S.B' ... 'Financial Accounts Still Bogus'.

The cash register did more for human morality than the Congregational Church. It was a really powerful phenomenon to make an economic system work better, just as, in reverse, a system that can be easily defrauded ruins a civilization. A system that's very hard to defraud, like a cash register, helped the economic performance of a civilization by reducing vice, but very few people within economics talk about it in those terms.

My idea of a good place to shop is Costco - it has these heavily marbled fillet steaks. The idea of eating some wheat thing and washing it down with carrot juice has never appealed to me.

Hard work, honesty, if you keep at it, will get you almost anything.