Military power tends to be a function of economic power, and the British Navy was the essential capability for establishing the imperial sway - which…

- Charles R. Morris

The evolution was always to greater scale and speed. Other countries did that here and there - GB in textiles, Germany in steel - but we went in that…

- Charles R. Morris

After I finished the Tycoons - on post-Civil War development - I realized how much I didn't know about the first half of the century, even though the…

- Charles R. Morris

John D. Rockefeller was certainly the first to create a consumer product that was sold literally throughout the entire world. Those blue 5-gallon can…

- Charles R. Morris

I would speculate that a critical mass of the population has to internalize a middle class outlook first. International aid experience has demonstrat…

- Charles R. Morris

My neck is too arthritic to snap around. The big shift in my perspective that happened in the writing process, however, was the paramount importance …

- Charles R. Morris

By 18th century standards, they [Great Britain] were the freest, most dynamic, most willing to challenge tradition and authority. They had the highes…

- Charles R. Morris

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

We demonstrated what you could do when a band of entrepreneurs settles an empty country with vast resources. The Chinese have a billion people and ar…

- Charles R. Morris