Originality is something that is easily exaggerated, especially by authors contemplating their own work.

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.

The individual serves the planning system not by supplying it with savings and the resulting capital; he serves it far more by consuming its products.

There's a certain part of the contented majority who love anybody who is worth a billion dollars.

Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.

Then came the second Amsterdam discovery, although the principle was known elsewhere. Bank deposits...did not need to be left idly in the bank. They could be lent. The bank then got interest. The borrower then had a deposit that he could spend. But the original deposit still stood to the credit of the original depositor. That too could be spent. Money, spendable money, had been created. Let no one rub his or her eyes. It's still being done-every day. The creation of money by a bank is as simple as this, so simple, I've often said, that the mind is slightly repelled.

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.