The metal of economic theory is in Marx's pages immersed in such a wealth of steaming phrases as to acquire a temperature not naturally its own.

Innovation is the market introduction of a technical or organisational novelty, not just its invention.

At the heart of capitalism is creative destruction.

Success depends on intuition, on seeing what afterwards proves true but cannot be established at the moment.

Innovations are changes which cannot be decomposed into infinitessimal steps.

Profit is the payment you get when you take advantage of change.

The ballot is stronger than bullets.

Politicians are like bad horsemen who are so preoccupied with staying in the saddle that they can't bother about where they're going.

We always plan too much and always think too little. We resent a call to thinking and hate unfamiliar argument that does not tally with what we already believe or would like to believe.

We always plan too much and always think too little.

Capitalism inevitably and by virtue of the very logic of its civilization creates, educates and subsidizes a vested interest in social unrest.

Even if it's meaningless . . . sometimes, nice things happen.

Just about a month from now I'm set adrift, with a diploma for a sail and lots of nerve for oars.

you know things, without knowing how you know, but you know it is true

For this was Christmas, which had always been a time of magic, to him and to all the world.

Tactics flow from a superior position

You know, heroes are ordinary people that have achieved extraordinary things in life.

I was all in gold sequins for Million Dollar Mermaid, 50 feet in the air

Resignation is just simply out of the question.

My heart found its home long ago in the beauty, mystery, order and disorder of the flowering earth. I wanted future generations to be able to savor what I had all my life.

The denizens of Citizens Service Houses are not, as a rule, gifted with a lot of common sense, but they often make up for that by being extremely argumentative and vindictive.