A genius is always a teacher, never a pupil; he is always self-made.

If some peoples pretend that history or geography gives them the right to subjugate other races, nations, or peoples, there can be no peace.

Business is a means- the only means- to increase the quantity of goods available for preserving life and rendering it more agreeable.

The essential characteristic of Western civilization that distinguishes it from the arrested and petrified civilizations of the East was and is its concern for freedom from the state.

Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.

Under capitalism everybody is the architect of his own fortune.

In reality no food is valued solely for its nutritive power and no garment or house solely for the protection it affords against cold weather and rain.... the demand for goods is widely influenced by metaphysical, religious, and ethical considerations, by aesthetic value judgments, by customs, habits, prejudice, tradition, changing fashions, and many other things.