Few can believe that suffering, especially by others, is in vain. Anything that is disagreeable must surely have beneficial economic effects.

We talk of the enormous virtues of work, but it turns out that that is mostly for the poor. If you're rich enough or if you're a college professor, the virtue lies in leisure and the use you make of your leisure time.

Genius is a rising stock market.

If people are hungry, ill-clad, unsheltered or diseased, nothing is so important as to remedy their condition.

The modern corporation must manufacture not only goods but the desire for the goods it manufactures.

Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.

Power is not something that can be assumed or discarded at will like underwear.