The market system requires that people be committed and willing to work hard. Inherent with that is what I call a merit system, which I think gives people the greatest opportunity.

I find it interesting that many of the people who want to restrict fossil fuels live in well-developed countries where abundant and affordable energy is readily available.

There is hardly an activity that a person can think about that does not intrinsically involve energy, most of which is currently provided by fossil fuels.

Ethical conduct is something that becomes inherent in an organization over a long period of time.

It is important to remember that all business has an impact on the lives of real people.

The freedoms that people have that flow from all civic institutions fundamentally come from the success of a market system.

We should seek a system that provides outlets for those skills and talents so that everyone can find a way to work and serve in a manner that best suits the strengths of each individual.

It makes no sense to talk of the social obligations of the corporation without reference to its economic obligations. The two are intertwined.

Without competition, the spectacular development of technology that we have seen in the last one hundred years in this country would not have happened.

In some of the countries where we operate, there is a tradition of corruption, in which the political elites work with business in the framework of unsavory relationships.

I have a great deal of difficulty with those who live in a hugely prosperous country telling people in the developing world that they should be deprived of a critical source of energy.

They were determined to find something mechanically wrong with him - because broken machines are easier to fix.

Although I'm Australian, I find myself much more in sympathy with the Austrian version!

One day, when I am a braver man, I will tell her these things, and then I will look her in the eye, tell her I love her and ask her to be only mine. But until that day, we're just friends.

Your ideas need not have anything to do with reality. Making conclusions is a sure way of not enhancing our perception.

Ever since I'm done with Zim everyone thinks that I'm going to go back to comics. I've been flooded with emails asking me if I'm working on the new Johnny over and over again.

Those who expect moments of change to be comfortable and free of conflict have not learned their history.

Like many successful people he made good use of disappointments - responding to them with energy, with near-frenzied activity, rather than needing to recover from them.

We should not be afraid to speak the truth to our powerful friend the United States.

To those who don't think defense is important, you'll get the best seat on the bench.

States of profound happiness, like all other forms of intoxication, are apt to befuddle the wits; intense enjoyment of the present always makes one forget the past.