The best way to measure your investing success is not by whether you're beating the market but by whether you've put in place a financial plan and a behavioral discipline that are likely to get you where you want to go.
Perhaps as important is the relation between the existence of solutions to a competitive equilibrium and the problems of normative or welfare economics.
"The role of business is to produce products and services that make people's lives better—while using fewer resources—and to act lawfully and with integrity."