Weak men act to satisfy their needs, stronger men their duties.

It was obvious that their profits were simply cash borrowed from destiny with some random payback time.

As countries get rich they start increasing education and the very educated people tend to not like trial and error, because they think they're obligated to use the body of knowledge they have.

Karl Marx, a visionary, figured out that you can control a slave much better by convincing him he is an employee.

I'd rather have the market tell us what - I'd rather have events precipitate events, rather than just sit there like passive people in Washington.

You have family-owned businesses that have been around for 500 years. You cannot name a corporation that survives intact for even a few decades.

Any system that is deprived of its natural volatility, with government up (unintelligible) volatile, any system becomes very fragile.