Ideals and morality are often spoken of as virtual antimatter to the behaviors allegedly needed to maximize profits.

A successful business maximizes the present value of future earnings. The first requirement, therefore, of business success is sustainable profits. One-time winnings, in business as in casinos, are disappointing. We expect more from our investments than that.

Capitalism is of this material world; it provides us with the means to live; it empowers us within the known world of sense and human reason. If it is to be measured by a strict standard of holiness, by religious normativity alone, then there can never be a moral capitalism.

We allow words to obscure the interpretation of the deeper meaning.

Persistence goes a lot farther than brains.

We haven't figured out a way to get sensors that can discriminate between decoys and warheads. The technology doesn't exist yet.

People live up to your expectations, not their potential.