The earth is, like our own skin, fated to carry the scars of ancient wounds.
Happiness, whether in business or private life, leaves little trace in history.
There are always some areas world history does not reach, zones of silence and undisturbed ignorance.
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.
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