The engine which drives enterprise is not thrift, but profit.

Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men, for the nastiest of reasons, will somehow work for the benefit of us all.

Perhaps it is historically true that no order of society ever perishes save by its own hand.

Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally.

Newton was not the first of the age of reason. He was the last of the magicians, the last of the Babylonians and Sumerians, the last great mind that looked out on the visible and intellectual world with the same eyes as those who began to build our intellectual inheritance rather less than 10,000 years ago.

The engine which drives enterprise is not thrift, but profit.

There is no intrinsic reason for the scarcity of capital.