If you cannot state a proposition clearly and unambiguously, you do not understand it.
MILTON FRIEDMANHell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
More Milton Friedman Quotes
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The only corporate social responsibility a company has is to maximize its profits.
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With respect to teachers’ salaries …. Poor teachers are grossly overpaid and good teachers grossly underpaid. Salary schedules tend to be uniform and determined far more by seniority.
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When you start paying people to be poor, you wind up with an awful lot of poor people.
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The great virtue of a free market is that it enables people who hate each other, or who are from vastly different religious or ethnic backgrounds, to cooperate economically. Government intervention can’t do that.
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The essential notion of a capitalist society … is voluntary cooperation, voluntary exchange. The essential notion of a socialist society is force.
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There’s no point in comparing an actual, operating system with an ideal system that doesn’t exist.
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I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it’s possible.
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Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government.
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Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.
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There is one and only one responsibility of business: to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game.
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Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.
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We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.
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The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus.
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There’s nothing that does so much harm as good intentions.
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One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.
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