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Market Quotes by Milton Friedman
- There is still a tendency to regard any existing government intervention as desirable, to attribute all evils to the market, and to evaluate new proposals…
- What most people really object to when they object to a free market is that it is so hard for them to shape it to…
- I know of no example in time or place of a society that has been marked by a large measure of political freedom, and that…
- The free market is not only a more efficient decision maker than even the wisest central planning body, but even more important, the free market…
- 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…
- Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.
- The most important single central fact about a free market is that no exchange takes place unless both parties benefit.
- The only way that has ever been discovered to have a lot of people cooperate together voluntarily is through the free market. And that's why…
- The black market was a way of getting around government controls. It was a way of enabling the free market to work. It was a…
- Indeed, a major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that it... gives people what they want instead of what a particular group…
- The great virtue of a free market system is that it does not care what color people are; it does not care what their religion…
- The existence of a free market does not of course eliminate the need for government. On the contrary, government is essential both as a forum…
- A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market…
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- If stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stock, not selling advice. — Norman Ralph Augustine
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- A normal way that the American free market system has worked is that we have a process of unwinding. It's called bankruptcy.… — Michele Bachmann
- Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall. — Francis Bacon
- Drug prohibition has caused gang warfare and other violent crimes by raising the prices of drugs so much that vicious criminals enter… — Michael Badnarik
- Our mail product, Hotmail, is the market leader globally. — Steve Ballmer
- The difference between playing the stock market and the horses is that one of the horses must win. — Joey Adams
- The main purpose of the stock market is to make fools of as many men as possible. — Bernard Baruch
- When good news about the market hits the front page of the New York Times, sell. — Bernard Baruch
- Obama's economic policies obviously have not worked, and have left the American market place with enormous uncertainty and anxiety. — Bob Beauprez
- Why in almost all societies have married women specialized in bearing and rearing children and in certain agricultural activities, whereas married men… — Gary Becker