“Tools may be animate as well as inanimate; for instance, a ship's captain uses a lifeless rudder, but a living man for watch; for a servant is, from the point of view of his craft, categorized as one of its tools. So any piece of property can be regarded as a tool enabling a man to live, and his property is an assemblage of such tools; a slave is a sort of living piece of property; and like any other servant is a tool in charge of other tools.” MenWellsMayUsePoliticsViewsWatchesEconomyPiecesToolsPropertySlavePoint Of ViewShipsInstanceCraftsServantLiberalismCaptainsEnablingLifelessRuddersAssemblage Author:Aristotle
“Concentrate your energy, thought and capital exclusively upon the business in which you are engaged... 'Don't put all your eggs in one basket' is all wrong. I tell you 'put all your eggs in one basket, and then watch that basket.'” WisdomPoliticsEnergyWatchesEconomyEngagedLiberalismEggsBasketsEggs In One Basket Author:Andrew Carnegie
“I've watched politics for years. Republicans rarely get credit for the good things that happen in the economy during their watch. Democrats always get more credit than they deserve. They are just better at political discourse that we are.” YearsHappensPoliticalWatchesEconomyRepublicanDeserveGood ThingsDemocratCreditDiscoursePolitical Discourse Author:George W. Bush
“It is the highest impertinence and presumption, therefore, in kings and ministers to pretend to watch over the economy of private people, and to restrain their expense. They are themselves, always, and without any exception, the greatest spendthrifts in the society.” PeopleWatchesEconomyKingsHighestMinistersPrivacyExceptionExpensesAdamPresumptionInvisible HandSpendthriftImpertinence Author:Adam Smith