Hayek, meanwhile, proved skilled at the dual task of reassuring colleagues of the unimpeachability of the funding sources while making limited adjustments to preserve the necessary support. He had demonstrated himself to be an institution builder with a crucial combination of qualities: an entrepreneurial ability to conceive and execute complex and potentially controversial plans, an academic background and reputation that reassured his colleagues about the nature of the enterprise, and a capacity to accommodate the needs of funding organizations without appearing wholly subject to their demands.

Angus Burgin, The Great Persuasion, loc. 260