C.S. Friedman Quotes

A crackpot theory. Instead of saying labor's exploited, as Marx did, Kelso says capital's exploited. It's worse than Marx. It's Marx stood on its head.

My interest in political philosophy was rather casual until I met Hayek.

The invisible hand in politics operates in the opposite direction to the invisible hand in the market.

It is a mark of how far we have gone on the road to serfdom that government allocation and rationing of oil is the automatic response to the oil crisis.

The current oil crisis has not been produced by the oil companies. It is a result of governmental mismanagement exacerbated by the Mideast war.

The argument for collectivism is simple; free market is not.

Personal freedom has grown greatly within China, and that will provoke ever more points of conflict between the individual and state.

I believe that the monetary stability is an absolutely critical element in the satisfactory operation of a system.

Hong Kong is the bellwether. If the Chinese stick to their agreement to let Hong Kong go its own path, then China will also go that way. If they don't, that is a very bad sign. I'm optimistic.

To the best of my knowledge, there has never been a monetary union, putting out a fiat currency, composed of independent states.

Reality ensures that the end of history will never come.

We have a freer world because of the collapse of the Soviet Union and the changes in China. Those two have been the main contributors to freedom in our time.

It is true that a competitive market is not the whole of society. A great deal depends on the qualities of the population and the nation in how they organize the non-market aspects of society.

Germany's problem, in part, is that it went into the euro at the wrong exchange rate that overvalued the deutsche mark.

On aging societies, there is no reason why a country that has a lot of old people can't be prosperous if, during their working lives, individuals provide for their retirement.

The euro is good for Europe. But only if there is flexibility all around.

The Soviet experience was much worse than experts in the West had thought. That discovery had a tremendous impact both on the intellectual community and on the public at large.

It doesn't worry me a bit that China and Japan hold so much US debt. In a way, it seems foolish for them to do it because they get lower returns than they might elsewhere. But that is their business.

This is what people need: an easy-to-deploy, easy-to-use tool.

The whole youth-idolatry oh-god-not-another-birthday thing has to be the most sure-fire way to be unhappy about the way things are progressing in your life.

Meaningful relationships are two-way, and that means constantly looking for ways to improve your customers' lives.

You have the greatest chance of being happy when the voice you respond to is your own voice.

Don't count on others to hand your life to you.

The only person you will live your entire life with is yourself.

Don't accept that others know you better than you know yourself.

You marry at the level of your own psychological health.

The only failure is the failure to learn from conscious and deliberate efforts to make things better, even if those attempts fall short of the mark.

I am very gratified to have lived to see a revolution in the field of work/life: Everyone - men and women, employees and employers - now has this issue top of mind.

Continual improvisation on a theme is a more useful way to think of how to bring the various parts of life together.

Right now we're in the midst of a grand experiment on how best to harness the incredible power of the Internet while we struggle to maintain useful boundaries among the different parts of our lives.

Having a 9-to-5 workday in which work is left behind when one leaves the office is no longer the norm as employers expect employees to be available outside of work.

Technology has changed everything.

Young men now want to be caregivers as well as earners so they have joined with women in demanding a different compact at work; they want flex and time for family too.

Of course that's the best way to continue to learn anything: Try to teach it!

No one can have it all, at the same time. I've never seen that.

Family, community, and the realm of the private self - your mind, body, and spirit - are all important sources of the inspiration, support, and ideas we all need to lead the lives we want.

Michelle Obama is a powerful example of someone who has learned how to align her actions with her values, manage boundaries across domains of life, and embrace change courageously.

I'm a humanist and an optimist.

Change is surely the order of the day.

I've been writing for decades that balance is an inapt metaphor as it necessarily entails tradeoffs.

In a hyper-connected world where average is over, there is one thing we know absolutely for sure: Every good job will require more education.

Communism was a great system for making people equally poor - in fact, there was no better system in the world for that than communism. Capitalism made people unequally rich.

If you don't visit a bad neighborhood, it might visit you.

Iraq may still have a decent outcome...but even if it becomes Switzerland, we overpaid for it.

Never before in the history of the planet have so many people, on their own, had the ability to find so much information about so many things and about so many other people.

America needs rebooting.

If we don't have a more serious energy policy, the difference between a good day and bad day for America from here on will hinge on how the 86-year-old king of Saudi Arabia manages...change.

In China today, Bill Gates is Britney Spears. In America today, Britney Spears is Britney Spears-and that is our problem.

Almost all the students who make it to Caltech, one of the best scientific universities in the world, come from public schools. So it can be done.

American young people have got to understand from an early age that the world pays off on results, not on effort. Not everyone should win a prize no matter where he or she finishes.