Economy and economics Quote by Milton Friedman Download Open image “Nobody spends somebody else's money as carefully as he spends his own.” — Milton Friedman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Economy and economics Free market Free market capitalism Funny Inspirational Love Market economy Money Private property Success
I've never really seen other people spend other people's money wisely. — Sandra Lerner Copy Share Image
“When one spends what he has on himselef, when one has a thoroughly good time with his own money, people are apt to say… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“When one spends what he has on himself, when one has a thoroughly good time with his own money, people are apt to say “he doesn’t know what to do with his money.” For my part, I don’t see any better use to which one can put money. About such individuals one can’t say that they’re generous or stingy. They… — Henry Miller Copy Share
It doesn't cost money to let people keep more of their own money. It costs money to spend money you don't have, but that's… — Mick Mulvaney Copy Share Image
Nobody spends somebody else's money as carefully as he spends his own. Nobody uses somebody else's resources as carefully as he uses his own.… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
All the money in the world is no use to a man or his country if he spends it as fast as he makes… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
Money is of no value; it cannot spend itself. All depends on the skill of the spender. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When you've got the money, you spend it. When you've spent it all, let someone else get going and spend theirs. — Chuck Feeney Copy Share Image
One just spends as much money as one has. Very peculiar that! You never actually have any money. You think, If I had this… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem. — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
I believe the role that people like myself have played in the transformation of public opinion has been by persistently presenting a different point… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
To really understand something you've got to reduce it to its principles. — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
It is a mark of how far we have gone on the road to serfdom that government allocation and rationing of oil is the… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Economic freedom is an essential requisite for political freedom. By enabling people to cooperate with one another without coercion or central direction, it reduces… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
“The people in one district can choose not to reelect their member of Congress, but that will not change the composition of the government… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
When you have a time of crisis what happens depends on what ideas are floating around, and what ideas have been developed, and thought… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
The government doesn't have any money. The only power it has is to take from some and give to others. — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
What would the people who sold us goods do with the money? They'd get dollars. What would they do with the dollars? Eat them?! — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
World trade depends on differences among countries, not similarities. Different countries are in different stages of development. It is appropriate for them to have… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Is there some society you know of that doesn't run on greed? You think Russia doesn't run on greed? You think China doesn't run… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Well first of all, tell me, is there some society you know of that doesn't run on greed? You think Russia doesn't run on… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Commerce has set the mark of selfishness, the signet of its all-enslaving power, upon a shining ore, and called it gold: before whose image… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
I would never make a good economist. You know, an economist is a man that can tell you anything about — well, he will… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
Has anyone stopped to consider that we might come closer to balancing the budget if all of us simply tried to live up to… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
According to the Bank of England the economy is growing too fast so interest rates must rise to counter the supposed inflationary threat. — Harry Enfield Copy Share Image
According to the Bank of England the economy is growing too fast so interest rates must rise to counter the supposed inflationary threat. In lay terms, I interpret this to mean that people are working much harder, causing economic growth, and they're in danger of spending their money, which is what the recession-hit shops want them to do. But the… — Harry Enfield Copy Share
Commerce is a game of skill which everyone cannot play and few can play well. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Ours is an age in which thousands are driven daily from their homelands by the unforgiving brutalities of war, terrorism, political oppression, starvation, disease,… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
In the usual (though certainly not in every) public decision on economic policy, the choice is between courses that are almost equally good or… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is generally understood.… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Economic growth without social progress lets the great majority of the people remain in poverty, while a privileged few reap the benefits of rising… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
