George Gilder

“But I still don't have knowledge, interpreting the surprises that others don't know about, that will drive a new narrative. You have…

— George Gilder

Quality is abundant. Time is the new scarcity.

— George Gilder

“We begin with the proposition that capitalism is not chiefly an incentive system but an information system. We continue with the recognition,…

— George Gilder

“Ignored...was the one unbridgeable gap between physics and any such science of human behavior: the surprises that arise from free will and…

— George Gilder

History tells us that the threat to prosperity is not debt but socialism.

— George Gilder

In the history of enterprise, most of the protagonists of major new products and companies began their education - not in the…

— George Gilder

Most people consider themselves above the gritty and relentless details of life that allow the creation of great wealth. They leave it…

— George Gilder

“Much of the market is mindlessly indexed. That means it is all beta. The knowledge is leaching away in the surf of…

— George Gilder

Giving is the vital impulse and moral center of capitalism.

— George Gilder

The fact is there hasn't been a thrilling new erogenous zone discovered since de Sade.

— George Gilder

Hatred of producers of wealth still flourishes and has become, in fact, the racism of the intelligentsia.

— George Gilder

“In a world where women do not say no, the man is never forced to settle down and make serious choices. His…

— George Gilder

Entrepreneurial knowledge has little to do with certified expertise, advanced degrees, or the learning of establishment schools. The fashionably educated and cultivated…

— George Gilder

In the history of enterprise, most of the protagonists of major new products and companies began their education

— George Gilder

Wealth usually comes from doing what other people find insufferably boring.

— George Gilder

The differences between the sexes are the single most important fact of human society.

— George Gilder

The key to growth is quite simple: creative men with money. The cause of stagnation is similarly clear: depriving creative individuals of…

— George Gilder

The belief that all wealth comes from stealing is popular in prisons and at Harvard.

— George Gilder

In an information economy, entrepreneurs master the science of information in order to overcome the laws of the purely physical sciences. They…

— George Gilder

[Successful] projects that entrepreneurs initiated and carried through had one essential quality. All had been thoroughly contemplated by the regnant experts and…

— George Gilder

But if the 1 percent and the 0.1 percent are respected and allowed to risk their wealth - and new rebels are…

— George Gilder

By merely foreswearing violence and taking advantage of their unique position contiguous with the world’s most creative people, the Palestinians could be…

— George Gilder

[The] zero-sum caricature [applies] much more accurately to socialism, which stifles the creation of new wealth and thus fosters a dog-eat-dog struggle…

— George Gilder

All progress comes from the creative minority.

— George Gilder

The welfare culture tells the man he is not a necessary part of the family; he feels dispensable, his wife knows he…

— George Gilder