Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in order to guarantee your future.
I have made no distinction between the circulation of goods and of money, because there really is none.
It is the aim of good government to stimulate production, of bad government to encourage consumption.
The entrepreneur shifts economic resources out of an area of lower and into an area of higher productivity and greater yield.
The manner in which things exist and take place, constitutes what is called the nature of things; and a careful observation of the nature of things is the sole foundation of all truth.
One product is always ultimately bought with another, even when paid for in the first instance with money.
Every individual, from the common mechanic, that works in wood or clay, to the prime minister that regulates with the dash of his pen the agriculture, the breeding of cattle, the mining, or the commerce of a nation, will perform his business the better, the better he understands the nature of things,and the more his understanding is enlightened.
America is the best half-educated country in the world.
The potential gains from improved stabilization policies are on the order of hundredths of a percent of consumption, perhaps two orders of magnitude smaller than the potential benefits of available supply-side fiscal reforms.
I think all cinematographers, at least most of them, would love to do everything on location because you cannot cheat on location. It's there, it's part of the story usually. You have to deal with the elements. You have the sunshine, you have rain, you have fog - it really makes you work harder to try to match things during the day to make it look like it was shot within five minutes, movie time.
The more we think we're not affected by media - stereotypes, advertising - the more potential those forms of media have.