All production is for the purpose of ultimately satisfying a consumer.

The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones.

Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men, for the nastiest of reasons, will somehow work for the benefit of us all.

By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.

When the facts change, I change my mind.

It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.

The biggest problem is not to let people accept new ideas, but to let them forget the old ones.

If farming were to be organised like the stock market, a farmer would sell his farm in the morning when it was raining, only to buy it back in the afternoon when the sun came out.

The outstanding faults of the economic society in which we live are its failure to provide for full employment and its arbitrary and inequitable distribution of wealth and incomes.

Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.

The boom, not the slump, is the right time for austerity at the Treasury.

It's just I'd rather sleep through the days so I'll be awake for the nights, when the boys are out.

My wife, Gayle, is a wonderful musician and singer. We share music, so it's a deep bond.

It's really important to be disruptive and do things that actually are kind of a little scary and bold.

It is astonishing how sociable I feel myself compared with him.

Hearing is a form of touch. You feel it through your body, and sometimes it almost hits your face.

Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it.

I think that the Brexit negotiations have to be a big thing that determines the democratic fight-back and galvanizes democratic Europe again against this rising tide of nationalism.

Heart is what makes a difference

Money has to serve, not to rule!

I eat Swiss cheese from the inside out.