We always plan too much and always think too little.

Capitalism inevitably and by virtue of the very logic of its civilization creates, educates and subsidizes a vested interest in social unrest.

Entrepreneurial profit is the expression of the value of what the entrepreneur contributes to production.

Geniuses and prophets do not usually excel in professional learning, and their originality, if any, is often due precisely to the fact that they do not.

The modern mind dislikes gold because it blurts out unpleasant truths.

Recognition of the inevitability of comprehensive bureaucratization does not solve the problems that arise out of it.

The capitalist achievement does not typically consist in providing more silk stocking for queens but in bringing them within the reach of factory girls in return for a steadily decreasing amount of effort.