Pessimistic visions about almost anything always strike the public as more erudite than optimistic ones

Innovation is the market introduction of a technical or organisational novelty, not just its invention.

At the heart of capitalism is creative destruction.

Success depends on intuition, on seeing what afterwards proves true but cannot be established at the moment.

Innovations are changes which cannot be decomposed into infinitessimal steps.

Profit is the payment you get when you take advantage of change.

The ballot is stronger than bullets.

Politicians are like bad horsemen who are so preoccupied with staying in the saddle that they can't bother about where they're going.

We always plan too much and always think too little. We resent a call to thinking and hate unfamiliar argument that does not tally with what we already believe or would like to believe.

We always plan too much and always think too little.

Capitalism inevitably and by virtue of the very logic of its civilization creates, educates and subsidizes a vested interest in social unrest.

Guns are like thermometers, only instead of measuring body temperatures they measure our fear.

The road to freedom must be uphill, even if it is arduous and frustrating.

False gods must be repudiated, but that is not all: The reasons for their existence must be sought beneath their masks.

From forty to fifty a man is at heart either a stoic or a satyr.

We should all know this: that listening, not talking, is the gifted and great role, and the imaginative role.

I'm an athlete. I'm strong. I'm tough. And that's how women should be. That's how they should be built.

I've met foreign leaders who can't go out and say this publicly, but boy, they look at you and say, you've got to win this, you've got to beat this guy, we need a new policy, things like that.

It's... time to introduce scholarship programs that give students a choice, especially those who are locked into low-performing schools.

Sin will usher in the greatest and the saddest losses that can be upon our souls.