A lasting order cannot be established by bayonets.

All that Lenin learned about business from the tales of his comrades who occasionally sat in business offices was that it required a lot of scribbling, recording, and ciphering. Thus, he declares that accounting and control are the chief things necessary for the organizing and correct functioning of society. . . . Here we have the philosophy of the filing clerk in its full glory.

Experience shows that nothing is operated with less economy and with more waste of labor and material of every kind than public services and undertakings. Private enterprise on the other hand naturally induces the owner to work with the greatest economy in his own interest.

The mixing of politics and business not only is detrimental to politics, as is frequently observed, but even much more so to business.

Fortunes cannot grow; someone has to increase them.

This, then, is freedom in the external life of man-that he is independent of the arbitrary power of his fellows.

Taxing profits is tantamount to taxing success.