George Gilder Quotes

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• People cannot be expected to learn one expertise and just apply it routinely in a job. Your expertise is in steadily renewing your knowledge base…
• Unlike femininity, relaxed masculinity is at bottom empty, a limp nullity. While the female body is full of internal potentiality, the male is internally barren.…
• Giving is the vital impulse and moral center of capitalism.
• Television is not vulgar because people are vulgar; it is vulgar because people are similar in their prurient interests and sharply differentiated in their civilized…
• This is what sexual liberation chiefly accomplishes-it liberates young women to pursue married men.
• Nothing is more deadly to achievement than the belief that effort will not be rewarded, that the world is a bleak and discriminatory place in…
• The differences between the sexes are the single most important fact of human society.
• A policy of subsidizing failures will end in an economy strewn with capital-guzzling industries long past their time of profitability - old companies that cannot…
• In embracing change, entrepreneurs ensure social and economic stability.
• The envy of excellence leads to perdition; the love of it leads to the light.
• If government could create jobs and raise children, socialism would have worked.
• What's being pushed is to have Darwinism critiqued, to teach there's a controversy. Intelligent design itself does not have any content.
• The first priority of any serious program against poverty is to strengthen the male role in poor families.
• Entrepreneurial knowledge has little to do with certified expertise, advanced degrees, or the learning of establishment schools. The fashionably educated and cultivated spurn the kind…
• All small returns are noise. To transcend the noise and the risk, seek outsized returns from technological paradigms.
• History tells us that the threat to prosperity is not debt but socialism.
• All progress comes from the creative minority.
• A fundamental principle of information theory is that you can’t guarantee outcomes… in order for an experiment to yield knowledge, it has to be able…
• The welfare culture tells the man he is not a necessary part of the family; he feels dispensable, his wife knows he is dispensable, his…
• A successful economy depends on the proliferation of the rich, on creating a large class of risk-taking men who are willing to shun the easy…

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