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.

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

Spiritual entrepreneurship is the unsung route to growth in the modern economy.

Faith engenders courage; and also requires it.

One runs a business ultimately to do well so you can do good for everyone.

Caring for God's endowment in a thrifty fashion is a form of biblical obedience.