Bill Gates on business

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.

Today, you always know whether you are on the Internet or on your PC’s hard drive. Tomorrow, you will not care and may not even know.

Life is not divided into semesters. You don’t get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself.

The business of America is business.

Calvin Coolidge1872–1933Speech to the Society of American Newspaper Editors (1925).

• America

We demand that big business give the people a square deal; in return we must insist that when anyone engaged in big business honestly endeavors to do right he shall himself be given a square deal.

Theodore Roosevelt1858–1919Theodore Roosevelt — An Autobiography (1913), Appendix A

Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

Milton Friedman1912–2006Capitalism and Freedom (1962), Ch. 1 The Relation Between Economic Freedom and Political Freedom, 2002 edition, page 15

• Economics
• Freedom