We can safely abandon the doctrine of the eighties, namely that the rich were not working because they had too little money, the poor because they had much.

A good rule of conversation is never answer a foolish question.

The notion that you would initiate a new product without preparing the way by persuasion and advertising and salesmanship is fantastic. It's an integral part of the system.

Genius is a rising stock market.

Among all the world's races, some obscure Bedouin tribes possibly apart, Americans are the most prone to misinformation. This is not the consequence of any special preference for mendacity, although at the higher levels of their public administration that tendency is impressive. It is rather that so much of what they themselves believe is wrong.

Technology means the systematic application of scientific or other organized knowledge to practical tasks.

The huge capacity to purchase submission that goes with any large sum of money, well, this we have. This is a power of which we should all be aware.