Mennesket er et dyr, som laver forretninger. Intet andet dyr gør. Ingen hund bytter ben med en anden.
Mennesket er et dyr, som laver forretninger. Intet andet dyr gør. Ingen hund bytter ben med en anden.
Robotten vil tabe. Ikke med meget. Men når resultatet gøres op, vil kød og blod besejre det forbandede uhyre.
All money is a matter of belief.
Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to, only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer.
Defense is superior to opulence.
Every man, as long as he does not violate the laws of justice, is left perfectly free to pursue his own interest in his own way, and to bring both his industry and capital into competition with those of any other man, or order of men.
I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.
It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.
Labour was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased.
Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another.
No complaint ... is more common than that of a scarcity of money.
Not only will atomic power be released, but someday we will harness the rise and fall of the tides and imprison the rays of the sun.
On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity.
People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.
Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.
The real and effectual discipline which is exercised over a workman is ... that of his customers. It is the fear of losing their employment which restrains his frauds and corrects his negligence.
The real price of everything, what everything really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it.
The robot is going to lose. Not by much. But when the final score is tallied, flesh and blood is going to beat the damn monster.
This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts.
What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?