During the 2300 years since Plato, very little opposition has been registered to his ideas.

Some experts have declared that it is necessary to tax the people until it hurts. I disagree with these sadists.

The fundamental law of the market is: the customer is always right.

Two hundred years ago, before the advent of capitalism, a man's social status was fixed from the beginning to the end of his life; he inherited it from his ancestors and it never changed.

Our whole civilization rests on the fact that men have always succeeded in beating off the attack of the re-distributors.

He who acts under an emotional impulse also acts. What distinguishes an emotional action from other actions is the valuation of input and output. Emotions disarrange valuations. Inflamed with passion, man sees the goal as more desirable and the price he has to pay for it as less burdensome than he would in cool deliberation.

The most successful businessmen were often uneducated when measured by the scholastic standards of the teaching profession. But they were equal to their social function of adjusting production to the most urgent demand. Because of these merits the consumers chose them for business leadership.