When people freely identify with their work and find themselves through it, excellence follows.

Profitability is the consequence of doing business in the right way, to honor God.

Caring for God's endowment in a thrifty fashion is a form of biblical obedience.

Discipline is the virtue that begins in obedience and flowers in self-control.

The moral sentiments that constrain economic life also promote it.

Business is the real test of the moral life.

One runs a business ultimately to do well so you can do good for everyone.

Success comes because you have found your ecological niche and can flourish by doing your own valuable thing.

There's such a thing as spiritual capital that has economic function and potential.

Spiritual entrepreneurship is the unsung route to growth in the modern economy.

Adam Smith's image of competition in the marketplace was intended as an adjunct to his detailed description of human motivation in The Theory of Moral Sentiments , in which the pursuit of profit is tempered at every juncture by sympathy and benevolence, and by the posture of the impartial spectator which is forced on us by our moral nature.

Capitalism is about the mutual creation of wealth rather than the pillaging of it.

Long-term success depends upon trust.

Attempts to secure an equal outcome always require unequal treatment of individuals.

Profit doesn't appear as the goal but as a side effect of pursuing motivating principles.

The free economy is not the enemy but the friend of social capital.

Three cardinal virtues of business: creativity, building community, practical realism.