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Business Quotes by Milton Friedman
- The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase its Profits
- The strongest argument for free enterprise is that it prevents anybody from having too much power. Whether that person is a government official, a trade…
- I have long been a critic of Social Security, basically because I believe that it is not the business of government to tell people what…
- I'm not in favor of no government. You do need a government. But by doing so many things that the government has no business doing,…
- You could not possibly maintain the current level of government taxation without the taxes being hidden, and they are hidden in two very different ways.…
- You must distinguish sharply between being pro free enterprise and being pro business.
- So the question is, do corporate executives, provided they stay within the law, have responsibilities in their business activities other than to make as much…
- The great virtue of free enterprise is that it forces existing businesses to meet the test of the market continuously, to produce products that meet…
- What does it mean to say that government might have a responsibility? Government can't have a responsibility any more than the business can. The only…
- There is only one social responsibility of business
- The most important single central fact about a free market is that no exchange takes place unless both parties benefit.
- Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation.
- 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…
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