I believe that a system of profit sharing can be devised which will bring management and labour into a sensible partnership.

Selfishness on the part of capital is as bad as selfishness on the part of labour.

Both must be unselfish, both must think of the general community, and both must work hard.

The two chief enemies of mankind are moral slackness and physical slackness." There is no man living who would make a better Chancellor of the Exchequer than this merchant prince who, however, has had enough of politics and is going back very gladly to his desk in the City.

He is not in the least soured by the public ingratitude, and rightly judges it to be rather the voice of unscrupulous and stunt-seeking journalism than the considered judgment of the nation.