"Every businessman is in favor of freedom for……" — Milton Friedman
"Every businessman is in favor of freedom for everybody else, but when it comes to himself that's a different question. He's always the special case. He ought to get special privileges from the government, a tariff, this, that and the other thing."
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195 Quotes by Milton Friedman
Milton Friedman has 195 quotes on this site.
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When a private enterprise fails, it is closed down; when a government enterprise fails, it is expanded. Isn't that exactly…
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Legalizing drugs would simultaneously reduce the amount of crime and raise the quality of law enforcement. Can you conceive of…
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My major problem with the world is a problem of scarcity in the midst of plenty ... of people starving…
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Freedom in economic arrangements is itself a component of freedom broadly understood, so economic freedom is an end in itself…
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Economic freedom is an essential requisite for political freedom. By enabling people to cooperate with one another without coercion or…
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Whenever we depart from voluntary cooperation and try to do good by using force, the bad moral value of force…
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The essential notion of a capitalist society ... is voluntary cooperation, voluntary exchange. The essential notion of a socialist society…
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The power to determine the quantity of money... is too important, too pervasive, to be exercised by a few people,…
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Fundamentally, there are only two ways of coordinating the economic activities of millions. One is central direction involving the use…
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Self-interest is not myopic selfishness. It is whatever it is that interests the participants, whatever they value, whatever goals they…
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The high rate of unemployment among teenagers, and especially black teenagers, is both a scandal and a serious source of…
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A society based on the freedom to choose is better than a society based on the principles of socialism, communism…
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All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
— Aristotle
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I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.
— Lord Acton
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When did it become a problem to be a small businessman and become successful? The small businessman - like my…
— Glenn Beck
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Business opportunities are like buses, there's always another one coming.
— Richard Branson
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The most important thing is God's blessing and if you believe in God and you believe in yourself, you have…
— Mohamed Al-Fayed
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I honestly believe that there's an element in this country, in our politics, that does not want to see a…
— Herman Cain
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We as voters, have long hoped that we would get a businessman instead of a politician in order to help…
— Herman Cain
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Great businessmen are creators.
— Eric Cantona
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A businessman is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Ours is a government of checks and balances. The Mafia and crooked businessmen make out checks, and the politicians and…
— Steve Allen
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Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.
— Winston Churchill
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I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
— John Cleese
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