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It's easier to have faith in yourself if you have faith in God.
Do just once what others say you can't do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again.
What drives intellectuals and professors crazy is somebody with a high school diploma who made a fortune in business. They agree with Lenin, who thought success in business was a matter of luck, when in reality it is a matter of genius.
To be a good manager of people requires both fairness and bluntness.
Gifted women musicians and composers rarely received their due.
Our contemporary brand of socialism has one fatal flaw. It's too expensive. When you try to shower benefits on so many recipients, you eventually must resort to subterfuge. Foremost among those tricks is money and credit expansion. Inevitably, you debase your currency.
Capitalists have done more good for society through their charitable giving, philanthropy and generosity than all their critics combined.
Left-wing social policies sicken our behavior and corrupt our culture. People bend principles and sacrifice integrity to get as much as they can from the government. Giveaway programs encourage every imaginable sort of cheating and dishonesty. Wheeling and dealing in food stamps is a way of life. Lying and fraud are commonplace. Whenever you're dependent on the money, the end justifies the means.
From what I have said of the natives of New Holland they may appear to some to be the most wretched people upon earth but in reality they are far happier than we Europeans, being wholly unacquainted not only with the superfluous, but
Welfare corrupts the lower class much faster than the middle class.
Living your life constructs your soul, not a few seconds of daily prayer.
A free ride is life's most difficult journey.
Unions are at a disadvantage in a company vote because the employees can see that the greatest advocates of unionization are often the malcontents and marginal workers.
Without memory there are no worries.
In the polling booth narrow self interest wins out over lofty principles.
Hiring quotas reduce efficiency.
No role in life is more important than to be a good mother.
If the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results, then liberalism is a form of insanity.
The left controls the media, the institutions of higher learning and the government. They preach against business, disparate merit, decry free enterprise and slander capitalism.
Liberals believe and inexhaustible fund exists that can be tapped endlessly to pay for government social programs. Tax the rich and give it to a long line of moochers, pork barrel hustlers and ne'er-do-wells. These funds would otherwise have been employed as additional capital indispensable to economic progress.
You slight yourself when you're easily slighted.
The more money spent by government to address social injustice the greater the cries of social injustice.
We evolved without social welfare and we are equipped to solve our problems without it.
Social welfare is the most corrosive behavioral force ever unleashed by man.
I could not help concluding this man had the most supreme pleasure while he was driven so fast and so smoothly by the sea.
The thing that distinguishes permanent poverty is bad character.
A business owner who is liberal probably inherited the business.
To use ones religion as a rationalization for lack of financial success demeans that faith.
All too often unemployment is used as an excuse for misbehaving when jobs are available within walking distance.
Government employees move up the ladder through educational credentials rather than merit. People are given jobs and promotions based on seniority, race and gender rather than ability or talent. Such a system often overlooks the deserving and rewards the incompetent. There is no payoff for achievement.
To write about business one should be in business, just as in writing about Tasmania one should visit Tasmania.
Hardly anything works out as well as we hope.
Time flies when you're running out of money.
Private charity can apply 'tough love' but government charity can't.
Ambition leads me not only farther than any other man has been before me, but as far as I think it possible for man to go.
Remember, the greater the opportunity, the fewer are those who see it.
You cannot rectify grievances from the past with today's charity.
Government is not using modern technology so much to modernize and improve services as it is to regulate, punish, collect taxes and keep an eye on us. They'd rather rule than serve.
Give persons who would cheat you every opportunity so you can soon be rid of them.
Other than sex, two things bring people together; economic transactions and booze.
To enslave a people, give them money they didn't earn.
Independent thinkers are usually geniuses or idiots and at times it's hard to tell which.
We are coerced into faith by our suffering.
Love of country is nowhere the same as love of government.
Never underestimate the totality of chaos and betrayal that comes through currency debasement.
Money could never have originated as paper.
Governments without separation of powers commit the worst crimes.
The American people have come to rely on the government for their security. They will find out how incompetent the government is when they no longer have security.
Self interest determines loyalty or betrayal.
Management is simple, innovation is hard.
Those who live off of the donations of capitalism are often its greatest critics.
The universality of tattooing is a curious subject for speculation.
Whenever you have something nice someone will try to ruin it.
Apparently there's nothing more dangerous than a religious criminal.
No resource will flourish if managed by government.
All the warnings the founding fathers gave us about government proved to be true. We should have listened.
You can't suffer over two things at once.
Liberals fostered the subsidies that have converted so many citizens to helplessness. They have made high taxes and big government a way of life. They have corrupted the politicians into believing that in order to be elected to office, they must dispense benefits.
Once a person comes to rely on the government for support, that person becomes a socialist through and through.
At times life becomes too busy for religious thoughts.
Doubt makes us reaffirm what we believe.
A salesman sees a commission.
Taxes cause the most bad business decisions.
Faith puts the power of the universe at your disposal.
Money will always turn up when there is a potential for profit.
The decline and fall of a civilization is barely noticed by most of its citizens.
What is written is more influential than what is said.
Liberals have one solution for every economic issue; eat the seed corn.
Memory doesn't erase. The recall ability fails.
Prayer is futility when compared to belief.
Whatever you subsidize you get more of.
If you want the best results in an organization, you must rely solely on merit.
The most practical information about life is sneered at by social planners.
Inflation makes the wealthiest people richer and the masses poorer.
Allowing liberals to manage economic policy is like hiring monkeys to be aircraft mechanics.
What is more simple than to believe in God? Its very simplicity argues the case.
There is nothing very religious about feeling superior to those who don't share your views.
A thinker reverses roles and sees the perspectives of others.
The one thing that flies in the face of all human history and experience, is that the government can do a superior job than the private sector.
Liars seldom believe anyone else.
Perhaps the greatest difference among people is between those who never have to worry about money and those who do.
Government is full of people who think they know what's best for others and can rationalize compelling them to accept it.
People who never seen to learn claim the government can be made more efficient.
Governments institutionalize something for nothing.
Money without wisdom diminishes the pleasure and enjoyment of wealth.
If you get a job or promotion because of your race or gender, it is no different than a subsidy. You get something you didn't earn, 'something for nothing.'
What is still more to our shame as civilized Christians, we debauch their morals already too prone to vice, and we introduce among them wants and perhaps disease which they never before knew and which serve only to disturb that happy tranquility which they and their forefathers enjoyed. If anyone denies the truth of this assertion, let him tell me what the natives of the whole extent of America have gained by the commerce they have had with Europeans.
It's impossible for a dishonest person to grow rich in business.
Suffering perfects the soul.
The purer the application of socialism, the worse the results, the purer the application of capitalism, the better the results.
We are destroying capitalism to pay for socialism.
From an economic standpoint, liberalism is a greater threat to America than communism ever was.
Nobody heeds danger when they're making money.
Beware the person who is on a hot streak.
Seeds sewn in adversity bear the greatest fruit.
Employers know the nature of people best.
Worry not so much about other peoples morals but more about your own.
Getting is more fun than having.
Our religious understanding and beliefs should evolve just like everything else.
It's not up to God for us to use the gift of faith.
People rarely use advice.
The power of faith to ease our suffering is God's love.
Virtually anything is more stimulating than conversations with strangers at social gatherings.
The soul is that part of you in harmony with God.
The only reasonable outcome of a nation's sins is to learn not to repeat them.
Advice from others is always filtered through self interest.
Inequality promotes progress.
At the very least, people who get subsidies should have to get up in the morning and do something, even if it's a make work job. But most liberals would oppose even this simple test of responsibility.
To succeed in business, put the interest of the customer ahead of your own.
The liberal agenda is the blueprint for national ruin.
Everybody lives an epic.
Investors believe in the best possible outcome.
The eyes of the owner can see what no one else can see.
Private charity discourages poverty while public subsidies encourage it.
The fundamental laws of human nature are overlooked by social planners.
When government tries to make people more equal, it makes them more unequal.
Self interest feeds more people than self sacrifice.
Those who help the poor the most also hurt them the most.
It is said that government is a necessary evil, but it is far more evil than it is necessary.
Taxes are a penalty on progress.

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