Many pioneers of these industrial changes, it is true, became rich. But they acquired their wealth by supplying the public with motor cars, airplanes, radio sets, refrigerators, moving and talking pictures, and variety of less spectacular but no less useful innovations. These new products were certainly not an achievement of offices and bureaucrats.

The development of capitalism consists in everyone having the right to serve the consumer better or more cheaply.

The wealth of the well-to-do of an industrial society is both the cause and effect of the masses' well-being.

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

It is untrue that some are poor because others are rich. If an order of society in which incomes were equal replaced the capitalist order, everyone would become poorer.

The issue is always the same: the government or the market. There is no third solution.

The system that would stand midway between capitalism and socialism.