Were it part of our everyday education and comment that the corporation is an instrument for the exercise of power, that it belongs to the process by which we are governed, there would then be debate on how that power is used and how it might be made subordinate to the public will and need. This debate is avoided by propagating the myth that the power does not exist.

All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.

People who are in a fortunate position always attribute virtue to what makes them so happy.

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.

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

The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled.

All crises have involved debt that, in one fashion or another, has become dangerously out of scale in relation to the underlying means of payment.