“Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted.”

“Washington is a place where men praise courage and act on elaborate personal cost-benefit calculations.”

“I was brought up in southwestern Ontario where we were taught that Canadian patriotism should not withstand anything more than a five-dollar-a-month wage differential. Anything more than that and y...”

“People of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage.”

“In economics the majority is always wrong.”

“In all modern depressions recessions or growth-correction as variously they are called we never miss the goods that are not produced. We miss only the opportunities for the labour - for the job...”

“[W]hen it's slow, they send you home, and when it's busy, they expect you to stay late. They also expect you to be able to come in to cover someone's shift if a co-worker gets sick at the last minu...”

“Poverty entails fear, and stress, and sometimes depression; it means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts, that is indeed something on which to p...”

“A man may beg, but a woman has to sell.”