The only corporate social responsibility a company has is to maximize its profits.
MILTON FRIEDMANWith 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.
More Milton Friedman Quotes
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A free man will ask neither what his country can do for him nor what he can do for his country.
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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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I am a libertarian with a small “l” and a Republican with a capital “R”. And I am a Republican with a capital “R” on grounds of expediency, not on principle.
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If you cannot state a proposition clearly and unambiguously, you do not understand it.
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One role of prohibition is in making the drug market more lucrative.
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A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.
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The growing role that the government has played in financing and administering schooling has led not only the enormous waste of taxpayers money but also to a far poorer educational system.
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Every person shall be free to do good at his own expense.
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Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government.
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There’s no such thing as a free lunch.
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A minimum-wage law is, in reality, a law that makes it illegal for an employer to hire a person with limited skills.
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I would say that in this world, the greatest source of inequality has been special privileges granted by government.
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Corruption is government intrusion into market efficiencies in the form of regulations.
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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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Higher taxes never reduce the deficit. Governments spend whatever they take in and then whatever they can get away with.
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