Many businesses with unpopular products or inefficient production find it much easier to curry the favor of a few influential politicians or a government agency than to compete in the open market.

Embrace change. Envision what could be, challenge the status quo, and drive creative destruction.

I believe my business and non-profit investments are much more beneficial to societal well-being than sending more money to Washington.

A truly free society is based on a vision of respect for people and what they value.

Success is one of the worst enemies of success, because success tends to breed complacency and lack of humility.

To do meaningful work is to contribute - to create value in society.

We must measure what leads to results, not simply what is easy to measure.

When everyone gets something for nothing, soon no one will have anything, because no one will be producing anything.

The only way you improve is to try new things.

If you never failed, then you're probably not doing very much.

A classical liberal is someone who wants a society that maximizes peace, civility, tolerance, and well-being for everyone. One that opens opportunities for everyone to advance themselves.

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

The dog is very smart. He feels sorry for me because I receive so much mail; that's why he tries to bite the mailman.

Equality is the measure of all things, and bad behavior is less bad if everyone indulges in it.

I agreed to take part in a New York University Institute for Humanities conference a year ago. . . .

There are way too many comedians now.

The word 'comfort' comes from the Latin words for 'with' and 'strength' and originally meant operating from a position of power.

The days have never been long enough to do the things I would like to do. Every year has held more of interest than the year before.

I don't think it's fair for some girls to have plenty of pretty things, and other girls nothing at all.

An accident, a random change, in any delicate mechanism can hardly be expected to improve it. Poking a stick into the machinery of one's watch or one's radio set will seldom make it work better.

But man is freer than all the animals, on account of his free-will, with which he is endowed above all other animals.