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Hire the best. Pay them fairly. Communicate frequently. Provide challenges and rewards. Believe in them. Get out of their way and they'll knock your socks off. (Quote by - Mary Ann Allison)

Debt is the worst poverty. (Quote by - Thomas Fuller)

Fortune has something of the nature of a woman. If she is too intensely wooed, she commonly goes the further away. (Quote by - Charles V)

We see that there are two different kinds of...societies: (a) parasitic societies and (b) producing societies. The former are those which live from hunting, fishing, or merely gleaning. By their economic activities they do not increase, but rather decrease, the amount of wealth in the world. The second kind of societies, producing societies, live by agricultural and pastoral activities. By these activities they seek to increase the amount of wealth in the world. (Quote by - Carroll Quigley)

If money be not they servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him. (Quote by - Francis Bacon)

What matters is not the allocation of portions out of a fund presented to man by nature. The problem is rather to further those social institutions which enable people to continue and to enlarge the production of all those things which they need. (Quote by - Ludwig Von Mises)

Commerce is the cure for the most destructive prejudices. (Quote by - De Montesquieu)

If you can run one business well, you can run any business well. (Quote by - Richard Branson)

The first condition for the establishment of perpetual peace is the general adoption of the principles of laissez-faire capitalism. (Quote by - Ludwig Von Mises)

The market is a place set apart where men may deceive each other. (Quote by - Diogenes Laertius)

It takes all the fun out of a bracelet if you have to buy it yourself. (Quote by - Peggy Joyce)

We Asians are the original Conservatives because for thousands of years we have believed in free enterpris you have just stolen our philosophy. (Quote by - Jayvantsinnji Gohel)

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves. (Quote by - Walter Gilbey)

When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous. (Quote by - Wayne Dyer)

There ain't no such thing as a free lunch." A Libertarian Movement slogan - The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, 1907. (Quote by - Robert A. Heinlein)

The monstrous evils of the twentieth century have shown us that the greediest money grubbers are gentle doves compared with money-hating wolves like Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler, who in less than three decades killed or maimed nearly a hundred million men, women, and children and brought untold suffering to a large portion of mankind. (Quote by - Eric Hoffer)

He that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent. [Proverbs 28:20]. (Quote by - Bible)

A man's indebtedness is not virtue; his repayment is. Virtue begins when he dedicates himself actively to the job of gratitude. (Quote by - Ruth Benedict)

What pays under capitalism is satisfying the common man, the customer. The more people you satisfy, the better for you. (Quote by - Ludwig Von Mises)

Emotions are your worst enemy in the stock market. (Quote by - Don Hays)

If you wish to prosper, let your customer prosper.When people have learned this lesson, everyone will seek his individual welfare in the general welfare. Then jealousies between man and man, city and city, province and province, nation and nation, will no longer trouble the world. (Quote by - Frederic Bastiat)

To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure. (Quote by - Honore De Balzac)

All people, however fanatical they may be in their zeal to disparage and to fight capitalism, implicitly pay homage to it by passionately clamoring for the products it turns out. (Quote by - Ludwig Von Mises)

The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest amount of feathers with the least possible amount of hissing. (Quote by - J. B. Colbert)

Energetic action on debt would make a radical difference to the prospects of many of the poorest countries in the world, at no practical cost to creditor countries. (Quote by - Kenneth Clarke)

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