Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.

Business should be like religion and science; it should know neither love nor hate.

Business, to be succcessful, must be based on science, for demand and supply are matters of mathematics, not guesswork.

It is not therefore the business of philosophy, in our present situation in the universe, to attempt to take in at once, in one view, the whole scheme of nature; but to extend, with great care and circumspection, our knowledge, by just steps, from sensible things, as far as our observations or reasonings from them will carry us, in our enquiries concerning either the greater motions and operations of nature, or her more subtile and hidden works. In this way Sir Isaac Newton proceeded in his discoveries.

It is the business of the future to be dangerous; and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties.

While the law [of competition] may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it insures the survival of the fittest in every department. We accept and welcome, therefore, as conditions to which we must accommodate ourselves, great inequality of environment, the concentration of business, industrial and commercial, in the hands of a few, and the law of competition between these, as being not only beneficial, but essential for the future progress of the race.