When capitalists are thwarted, deflected, or dispossessed, the generals and politicians,... and socialist intellectuals, are always amazed at how quickly the great… — George Gilder Copy Share Image
Capitalists are motivated not chiefly by the desire to consume wealth or indulge their appetites, but by the freedom and power to… — George Gilder Copy Share Image
“The risk-bearing role of the rich cannot be performed so well by anyone else. The benefits of capitalism still depend on capitalists.… — George Gilder Copy Share Image
“It removes information from the market when I need more and more...Indexing is a waste heap--information so merged and muffled that it hides knowledge… — George Gilder Copy Share
“An economics of systems only-an economics of markets but not of men-is fatally flawed.” — George Gilder Copy Share
If government could create jobs and raise children, socialism would have worked. — George Gilder Copy Share
Socialism is an insurance policy bought by all the members of a national economy to shield them from risk. But the result is to… — George Gilder Copy Share
“The freer an economy is, the more this human diversity of knowledge will be manifested. By contrast, political power originates in top-down processes-governments, monopolies,… — George Gilder Copy Share
A policy of subsidizing failures will end in an economy strewn with capital-guzzling industries long past their time of profitability - old companies that… — George Gilder Copy Share
“The index is retrospective. The crucial alpha, the entropy, the signal modulating that linear advance...comes from knowledge of the entrepreneurial surprises harbored on the… — George Gilder Copy Share
In order to understand the movement of prices, you need not an oscilloscope to measure the entire market and reduce it to noise, but… — George Gilder Copy Share
The most important feature of an information economy, in which information is defined as surprise, is the overthrow, not the attainment, of equilibrium. The… — George Gilder Copy Share
Nothing is more deadly to achievement than the belief that effort will not be rewarded, that the world is a bleak and discriminatory place… — George Gilder Copy Share
“An economy is a "noosphere" (a mind-based system), and it can revive as quickly as minds and policies can change.” — George Gilder Copy Share
“Obviously the most enduring way to make this commitment is through marriage. Yet because sexual liberals deny the differences between the sexes, their explanations… — George Gilder Copy Share
The United States is probably the most [socially] mobile society in the history of the world. The virtues that are most valuable in it… — George Gilder Copy Share
The crucial role of the rich in a capitalist economy is... to invest; to provide unencumbered and unbureaucratized cash. — George Gilder Copy Share
