“First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.”

Aristotle

“I, however, place economy among the first and most important republican virtues, and public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared.”

Thomas Jefferson

“Did you ever think that making a speech on economics is a lot like pissing down your leg? It seems hot to you, but it never does to anyone else.”

Lyndon B. Johnson

“There are no such things as limits to growth, because there are no limits to the human capacity for intelligence, imagination, and wonder”

Ronald Reagan

Political revolutions also spring from a disproportionate increase in any part of the state.

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Democracy, for example, arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects, because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.

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Property should be in a certain sense common, but, as a general rule, private; for, when every one has a distinct interest, men will not complain of one another, and they will make more progress, because every one will be attending to his own business.

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There is another variety of the art of acquisition which is commonly and rightly called an art of wealth-getting, and has in fact suggested the notion that riches and property have no limit.

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Property

Property is a part of the household, and the art of the acquiring property is a part of the art of managing the household; for no man can live well, or indeed live at all, unless he be provided with necessaries.

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“When a management team with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.”

Warren Buffett

“The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy.”

Milton Friedman

“In a real estate man's eye, the most expensive part of the city is where he has a house to sell”

Will Rogers