I think writing books is a way for me to work out certain issues. I write about what matters to me, always.
You cannot have faith in people unless you take action to improve and develop them.
Yesterday's success formula is often today's obsolete dogma. . . We must continually challenge the past so that we can renew ourselves each day.
Companies that succeed are driven by internal ambition. Stock price doesn’t drive them. Ambition and values drive them.
You have to create tension between reality and aspiration
Marriage is under attack from so many different areas. There should be benefits associated with married people. Life is unfair. Maybe you won't find the right person and you won't end up getting married. Oh, well, life is unfair. But married people, because of their capacity to have children, even if they're not going to end up having children, even if they're unable to bear children, marriage is an institution that is absolutely central to civilization.
But for this book we could not know right from wrong.
Professor Galbraith is horrified by the number of Americans who have bought cars with tail fins on them, and I am horrified by the number of Americans who take seriously the proposals of Mr. Galbraith.
For example, if I make money, I put it in real estate. I always did very well. Location, location, location.