Quotation Collection

I am convinced both by faith and experience, that to maintain one's self on this earth is not a hardship but a pastime, if we will live simply and wisely. Henry David Thoreau

• simplicity
• thrift

If the Congress wants to bring the Panamanian economy to its knees, why doesn't it just go down there and run it? Ronald Wilson Reagan

• government
• Congress

I've trained myself to propose solutions instead of ask for them, to elicit responses instead of react, and to be assertive without burning bridges. To have an uncommon lifestyle, you need to develop the uncommon habit of making decisions, both for yourself and for others. Timothy Ferriss

• leadership
• decisiveness

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One function of profits, in brief, is to guide and channel the factors of production so as to apportion the relative output of thousands of different commodities in accordance with demand. No bureaucrat, no matter how brilliant, can solve this problem arbitrarily. Free prices and free profits will maximize production and relieve shortages quicker than any other system. Arbitrarily fixed prices and arbitrarily limited profits can only prolong shortages and reduce production and employment. Henry Hazlitt

• economics
• free enterprise

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