We want to get full value out of labour so that we may be able to pay it full value. It is use - not conservation - that interests us.

Speculation is only a word covering the making of money out of the manipulation of prices, instead of supplying goods and services.

Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice

There are two fools in this world. One is the millionaire who thinks that by hoarding money he can somehow accumulate real power, and the other is the penniless reformer who thinks that if only he can take the money from one class and give it to another, all the world's ills will be cured.

There is joy in work.

The gifted man bears his gifts into the world, not for his own benefit, but for the people among whom he is placed; for the gifts are not his, he himself is a gift to the community.

Thinking is hard work, which is why so few people do it.