“In raw markets, the scent of money deadens all other sensory and ethical organs.” — Charles R. Morris Investing Copy Share Image
The Transcontinental Railroad Act is the first step in creating a continental common market. — Charles R. Morris Common Copy Share Image
The War of 1812 perhaps the least remembered of American wars because it was fought in such a left-handed slapdash manner on… — Charles R. Morris American war Copy Share Image
“Be fearful when others are greedy, and greedy when others are fearful.”6” — Charles R. Morris Fear Copy Share Image
Credit is the air that financial markets breathe, and when the air is poisoned, there's no place to hide. — Charles R. Morris Air Copy Share Image
My neck is too arthritic to snap around. The big shift in my perspective that happened in the writing process, however, was… — Charles R. Morris Bigs Copy Share Image
We demonstrated what you could do when a band of entrepreneurs settles an empty country with vast resources. The Chinese have a… — Charles R. Morris Band Copy Share Image
We were suddenly getting big, with burgeoning capabilities on all sides, but very clumsy, knew we were on some kind of ride,… — Charles R. Morris Bigs Copy Share Image
Military power tends to be a function of economic power, and the British Navy was the essential capability for establishing the imperial… — Charles R. Morris British Copy Share Image
The evolution was always to greater scale and speed. Other countries did that here and there - GB in textiles, Germany in… — Charles R. Morris Boards Copy Share Image
I would speculate that a critical mass of the population has to internalize a middle class outlook first. International aid experience has… — Charles R. Morris Aids Copy Share Image
John D. Rockefeller was certainly the first to create a consumer product that was sold literally throughout the entire world. Those blue… — Charles R. Morris Blue Copy Share Image
I've been among their critics [MBA programs]. Much of what I've seen in business schools is quite non-rigorous. Anecdotal histories are stretched… — Charles R. Morris Business Copy Share Image
By 18th century standards, they [Great Britain] were the freest, most dynamic, most willing to challenge tradition and authority. They had the… — Charles R. Morris 18th century Copy Share Image
I've been in China enough to know that you shouldn't opine on it unless you speak Chinese and have lived there for… — Charles R. Morris Behavior Copy Share Image
Land Grant College Act is the jewel of Republican reform. It had not occurred to any other country to educate their farmers… — Charles R. Morris American success Copy Share Image
Whitney proved to be a competent manufacturer, but wasn't an original inventor to any important degree. Thomas Blanchard was a true genius:… — Charles R. Morris America Copy Share Image
It wasn't openly talked about very much, in the sense that people said they wanted to beat GB at this or that,… — Charles R. Morris Beats Copy Share Image
merica was middle-class for the very start - the people who came first were hyper-strivers from England. There were no vested interests,… — Charles R. Morris Class Copy Share Image
Business schools tend to focus on topics that are suitable to blackboards, so they overemphasize organization and finance. Until very recently, they… — Charles R. Morris Blackboard Copy Share Image
It's clear that North took some original steps in that direction, but Hall probably had the most complete approach and should get… — Charles R. Morris Approach Copy Share Image
For just a few dollars registration, you got temporary possession of a good piece of land. Live on it for five years,… — Charles R. Morris Brilliant Copy Share Image
The drive to scale in almost every endeavor. The British went very large scale in ship building and a few other industries.… — Charles R. Morris 80s Copy Share Image
It may not be replicable: One of the hardest transition that a developing country can make is the transition to middle-class status.… — Charles R. Morris Class Copy Share Image
“in the brave new world of absolute markets, it is not only dangerously naive to trust your mortgage broker, but based on… — Charles R. Morris Brave new world Copy Share Image
I think it was the occasion of the final psychological break with Great Britain, in a way that had clearly not happened… — Charles R. Morris Break Copy Share Image
No specific technology. My guess is that it was the instinct always to go to maximum scale. Great Britain kept much more… — Charles R. Morris Britain Copy Share Image
The paradigm of the development of natural resource-based industry - meatpacking, lard, timber, iron and coal, grain. Cincinnati's lard processing plants looked… — Charles R. Morris Coal Copy Share Image
The kind of precision manufacturing epitomized in the armories, while it was important, was only a small share of the economy until… — Charles R. Morris Century Copy Share Image
n truth, we don't know a whole lot of what Simeon North did. He did manage to match John Hall's ability to… — Charles R. Morris Ability Copy Share Image
After I finished the Tycoons - on post-Civil War development - I realized how much I didn't know about the first half… — Charles R. Morris Amount Copy Share Image
I find her [Frances Trollope] simply delightful, even in her prejudices and cantankerousness. It is a gift to an author to find… — Charles R. Morris Aliens Copy Share Image
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