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

Success comes because you have found your ecological niche and can flourish by doing your own valuable thing.

Faith engenders courage; and also requires it.

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

Leadership, in other words, is a matter of character, not goals.

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.

Business is the real test of the moral life.