Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.

People spend money when and where they feel good.

It is a socialist idea making profits is a vice. I consider the real vice is making losses.

The man who earns a million, but destroys his health in the process is not really a success.

Anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, now that's the real test.

I am more interested in the return of my money than I am with a return on my money.

If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad.

The most popular labor-saving device is still money.

Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.

In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one is useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress.

You cannot possibly have a broader basis for any government than that which includes all the people, with all their rights in their hands, and with an equal power to maintain their rights.

If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to allow his vision wherever it takes him.

America’s abundance was not created by public sacrifices to the “common good,” but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal interests and the making of their own private fortunes.

Fundamentally, there are only to ways of coordinating the economic activities of millions. One is central direction involving the use of coercion — the technique of the army and the modern totalitarian state. The other is voluntary cooperation — the technique of the marketplace.

There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.

Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.