"Frugality is one of the most beautiful and joyous words in the language, and yet one that we are culturally cut off from understanding and enjoying."

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Elise M. Boulding

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“If the central contest of the twentieth century has pitted capitalism against socialism, then F. A. Hayek has been its central figure. He helped us to understand why capitalism won by a knockout. It was Hayek who elaborated the basic argument demonstrating that central planning was nothing else but an impoverishing fantasy.”

Source : "Giants Refreshed II: The Escape from Serfdom: Friedrich von Hayek and the Restoration of Liberty" in Times Literary Supplement ( p. 11), January 14, 2000.
“If we lived in a State where virtue was profitable, common sense would make us good, and greed would make us saintly. And we'd live like animals or angels in the happy land that /needs/ no heroes. But since in fact we see that avarice, anger, envy, pride, sloth, lust and stupidity commonly profit far beyond humility, chastity, fortitude, justice and thought, and have to choose, to be human at all... why then perhaps we /must/ stand fast a little --even at the risk of being heroes.”
“the garbage cans and mailboxes on the sidewalk would stay the same, but the people would be just a beautiful blur of motion.”
“I have worked hard to build relationships between Jewish people and black people.”
“Once you have money, you can quite truthfully affirm that money isn't everything.”

Source : Louis Kronenberger (1964). “The cart and the horse”
“Why should a financial engineer be paid four, four times... to a hundred times more than the, uh... real engineer? A real engineer build bridges, a financial engineer build, build dreams. And when those dream turn out to be nightmares, other people pay for it.”
“People will have an altered idea of who you are unless they really take time to get to know you, which of course they don't. They just get what they see, and they take that to the bank.”
“Oh, I was brought up in the north of France, and I had a very enjoyable childhood with my family working as entrepreneur.”

Source : "Chairman of LVMH, Bernard Arnault". "Talk Asia" with Lorraine Hahn, www.cnn.com. February 12, 2005.

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