James Cook Quotes

To write about business one should be in business, just as in writing about Tasmania one should visit Tasmania.

If everyone had to start up their own business, socialism would soon die.

Unions are at a disadvantage in a company vote because the employees can see that the greatest advocates of unionization are often the malcontents and marginal workers.

That which you worry about most in life is seldom bad, and that likely applies to dying.

From an economic standpoint, liberalism is a greater threat to America than communism ever was.

Money without wisdom diminishes the pleasure and enjoyment of wealth.

It's impossible for a dishonest person to grow rich in business.

The idea that government can instruct private enterprise on how to eliminate waste is preposterous.

Prayer is futility when compared to belief.

The reason our economic crisis has been forestalled is the reason there will be an economic crisis.

Love of country is nowhere the same as love of government.

Welfare corrupts the lower class much faster than the middle class.

Most everything government does is worse than useless.

Going without a thing enhances the desire to get it.

Throughout history government has seldom hesitated from robbing its citizens in a crisis.

The only time you can have maximum economic progress is when social programs don't exist.

Government is not competent enough to regulate.

To be a good manager of people requires both fairness and bluntness.

Our contemporary brand of socialism has one fatal flaw. It's too expensive. When you try to shower benefits on so many recipients, you eventually must resort to subterfuge. Foremost among those tricks is money and credit expansion. Inevitably, you debase your currency.

Apparently there's nothing more dangerous than a religious criminal.

Seeds sewn in adversity bear the greatest fruit.

Do just once what others say you can't do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again.

Remember, the greater the opportunity, the fewer are those who see it.

A salesman sees a commission.

What drives intellectuals and professors crazy is somebody with a high school diploma who made a fortune in business. They agree with Lenin, who thought success in business was a matter of luck, when in reality it is a matter of genius.

Easier will always win out over harder.

When people criticize the free market, they are usually complaining about what happens when you intervene in the free market.

Private charity discourages poverty while public subsidies encourage it.

To use ones religion as a rationalization for lack of financial success demeans that faith.

Better to have something to say than to have to say something.

The government is worst which governs most.

The more money spent by government to address social injustice the greater the cries of social injustice.

If you get a job or promotion because of your race or gender, it is no different than a subsidy. You get something you didn't earn, 'something for nothing.'

When you are aggrieved you learn.

The foremost corporate responsibility is to serve others so well you produce a profit.

It's a vain hope to believe that people will voluntarily turn their back on government subsidies.

Doubt makes us reaffirm what we believe.

Government regulators are another name for police.

All the warnings the founding fathers gave us about government proved to be true. We should have listened.

Subsidies have changed the way the nation behaves.

Capitalists have done more good for society through their charitable giving, philanthropy and generosity than all their critics combined.

What is more simple than to believe in God? Its very simplicity argues the case.

The purer the application of socialism, the worse the results, the purer the application of capitalism, the better the results.

A business owner who is liberal probably inherited the business.

Liberals fostered the subsidies that have converted so many citizens to helplessness. They have made high taxes and big government a way of life. They have corrupted the politicians into believing that in order to be elected to office, they must dispense benefits.

The one thing that flies in the face of all human history and experience, is that the government can do a superior job than the private sector.

Left-wing social policies sicken our behavior and corrupt our culture. People bend principles and sacrifice integrity to get as much as they can from the government. Giveaway programs encourage every imaginable sort of cheating and dishonesty. Wheeling and dealing in food stamps is a way of life. Lying and fraud are commonplace. Whenever you're dependent on the money, the end justifies the means.

Suffering over something is proof positive of its importance.