Most people consider themselves above the gritty and relentless details of life that allow the creation of great wealth. They leave it to the experts. But in general you join the one percent of the one percent not by leaving it to the experts but by creating new expertise, not by knowing what the experts know but by learning what they think is beneath them.

Capitalism begins with giving.

Real poverty is less a state of income than a state of mind.

This is what sexual liberation chiefly accomplishes-it liberates young women to pursue married men.

The belief that all wealth comes from stealing is popular in prisons and at Harvard.

The differences between the sexes are the single most important fact of human society.

Welfare now erodes work and family and thus keeps poor people poor. Accompanying welfare is an ideology - sustaining a whole system of federal and state bureaucracies - that also operates to destroy their faith. The ideology takes the form of false theories of discrimination and spurious claims of racism and sexism as the dominant forces in the lives of the poor.