James Cook Quotes
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A thinker reverses roles and sees the perspectives of others.
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Animosity towards the merchant class has been around for centuries. Why? The goal of making a profit is quite obviously a self-serving motive. Other occupations, while equally self-serving, are better able to hide their motives.
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The idea that government can instruct private enterprise on how to eliminate waste is preposterous.
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Self interest feeds more people than self sacrifice.
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Hiring quotas reduce efficiency.
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Without memory there are no worries.
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You slight yourself when you're easily slighted.
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Money will always turn up when there is a potential for profit.
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Subsidies have changed the way the nation behaves.
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We are far too critical of the fabulous system of plenty that has brought us the highest living standards on earth. The liberals have done a good job of undermining faith in the market system.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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A single charitable foundation started by one capitalist does more good than a world full of socialists and leftists. Think Carnegie and his libraries, or Sloan and Kettering their hospital, or Gates in Africa.
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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.'
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All the warnings the founding fathers gave us about government proved to be true. We should have listened.
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You cannot rectify grievances from the past with today's charity.
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From an economic standpoint, liberalism is a greater threat to America than communism ever was.
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In the polling booth narrow self interest wins out over lofty principles.
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When your mind tries to verify a preconceived notion you can miss the obvious.
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The power of faith to ease our suffering is God's love.
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Virtually anything is more stimulating than conversations with strangers at social gatherings.
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The decline and fall of a civilization is barely noticed by most of its citizens.