"If you ask me to name the proudest distinction of Americans, I would choose- because it contains all the others- the fact that they were the people who created the phrase to make money. No other language or nation had ever used these words before; men had always thought of wealth as a static quantity- to be seized, begged, inherited, shared, looted or obtained as a favor. Americans were the first to understand that wealth has to be created."
Francisco D' Anconia, Atlas Shrugged
Sadly, it appears that making money is beginning to become more synonymous with printing money than the creation of wealth that Francisco is referring to.
Friday, April 3, 2009
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