It is impossible that the intention of the entrepreneur who has borrowed in order to increase investment can become effective (except in substitution for investment by other entrepreneurs which would have occurred otherwise) at a faster rate than the public decide to increase their savings

Everything is always decided for reasons other than the real merits of the case

It is Enterprise which build and improves the world's possessions...If Enterprise is afoot, Wealth accumulates whatever may be happening to Thrift; and if Enterprise is asleep, Wealth decays, whatever Thrift may be doing.

The decadent international but individualistic capitalism in the hands of which we found ourselves after the war is not a success. It is not intelligent. It is not beautiful. It is not just. It is not virtuous. And it doesn't deliver the goods.

When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes in the code of morals.

The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones.

It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens.