children are an embarrassment to a business civilization. A business society needs children for the same reason that a nomadic or a pastoral society needs them - to perpetuate itself. Unfortunately, however, children are of no use to a business society until they have almost reached physical maturity.

What I know about money, I learned the hard way – by having had it.

Passionately prejudiced people always turn out, under scrutiny, to be people who cannot get along on a footing of equality with anyone.

Father's snoring grows to sound increasingly like a vacuum cleaner in heat.

Success does not implant bad characteristics in people. It merely steps up the growth rate of the bad characteristics they already had.

The real nature of an ethic is that it does not become an ethic unless and until it goes into action.

Our Republic is not a pastoral, not a military, not an agricultural, not a nomadic, not a clerical, but a business civilization. Nor is there anything random, casual or accidental about the United States as a business society. It is thoroughly well integrated - organized from top to bottom for the maximum efficiency of commerce and industry, for the maximum efficiency of making money.