When all benefits are promised by the state, nobody need feel grateful for them.

Adam Smith's image of competition in the marketplace was intended as an adjunct to his detailed description of human motivation in The Theory of Moral Sentiments , in which the pursuit of profit is tempered at every juncture by sympathy and benevolence, and by the posture of the "impartial spectator" which is forced on us by our moral nature.

When people freely identify with their work and find themselves through it, excellence follows.

Profitability is the consequence of doing business in the right way, to honor God.

Discipline is the virtue that begins in obedience and flowers in self-control.

Capitalism is about the mutual creation of wealth rather than the pillaging of it.

There's such a thing as spiritual capital that has economic function and potential.