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

The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself.

There is an old saying, or should be, that it is a wise economist who recognizes the scope of his own generalizations.

According to the experience of all but the most accomplished jugglers, it is easier to keep one ball in the air than many.

The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.

Men will look back in amusement at the pretence that once caused people to refer to General Dynamics and North American Aviation and AT&T as private business.

In the old days, land was important as the giver of all things. That period is gone now. Technology and brainpower are all that matters and yet conflicts over land, specially one like on the India-China border, that yields nothing, continue. This is a burden of ancient history that we continue to carry. If tomorrow there is settlement on planet Mars, we will begin to worry if others are interested.