Many of them had a better time than they ever had in their lives because they were discovering the new freedom - the less you need, the freer you become.

Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market

The purpose of work is to give people a chance to utilize and develop their faculties; to enable them to overcome their ego-centeredness by joining others in a common task; and to bring for the goods and services needed for a becoming existence.

Many people love in themselves what they hate in others

The way in which we experience and interpret the world obviously depends very much indeed on the kind of ideas that fill our minds. If they are mainly small, weak, superficial, and incoherent, life will appear insipid , uninteresting, petty and chaotic.

Economic development is something much wider and deeper than economics, let alone econometrics. Its roots lie outside the economic sphere, in education, organisation, discipline and, beyond that, in political independence and a national consciousness of self-reliance.

Study how a society uses its land, and you can come to pretty reliable conclusions as to what its future will be.