Nothing so denies a person liberty as the total absence of money.

If a man didn't make sense, the Scotch felt it was misplaced politeness to try to keep him from knowing it. Better that he be aware of his reputation, for this would encourage reticence which goes well with stupidity.

Preservationists are the only people in the world who are invariably confirmed in their wisdom after the fact.

One of the best ways of avoiding necessary and even urgent tasks is to seem to be busily employed on things that are already done.

Any consideration of the life and larger social existence of the modern corporate man begins and also largely ends with the effect of one all-embracing force. That is organization - the highly structured assemblage of men, and now some women, of which he is a part. It is to this, at the expense of family, friends, sex, recreation and sometimes health and effective control of alcoholic intake, that he is expected to devote his energies.

Happiness does not require an expanding economy

The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.