The mere smell of cooking can evoke a whole civilization.

The companies only developed if the state did not intervene in the French fashion. If on the contrary a certain degree of economic freedom was the rule, capitalism moved in firmly and adapted itself to all administrative quirks and difficulties

There were two, three or four French Revolutions. Like a multi-stage rocket today, the Revolution involved several successive explosions and propellant thrusts.

History may be divided into three movements: what moves rapidly, what moves slowly and what appears not to move at all.

Happiness, whether in business or private life, leaves little trace in history.

All history must be mobilized if one would understand the present.

Leadership of a world-economy is an experience of power which may blind the victor to the march of history.