Profits are the driving force of the market economy. The greater the profits, the better the needs of the consumers are supplied... He who serves the public best, makes the highest profits.

Innovators and creative geniuses cannot be reared in schools. They are precisely the men who defy what the school has taught them.

The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.

[E]conomic history is a long record of government policies that failed because they were designed with a bold disregard for the laws of economics

The real bosses, in the capitalist system of market economy, are the consumers.

Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer.

The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.

If one rejects laissez faire on account of mans fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action.

The main political problem is how to prevent the police power from becoming tyrannical. This is the meaning of all the struggles for liberty.

Manufacturing and commercial monopolies owe their origin not to a tendency imminent in a capitalist economy but to governmental interventionist policy directed against free trade and laissez faire.

Capitalism needs neither propaganda nor apostles. Its achievements speak for themselves. Capitalism delivers the goods.

You want something, you go after it, and you hang on to it

When you're as great as I am it's hard to be humble.

Like a pet fish unaware of the fishbowl it lives in, each of us inherently discriminates against young people without knowing it.

If you don't want to be a victim, don't act like one.

...the people at large absolutely gave James Brown respect. He was an original like a Rembrandt or a Picasso

People will remember you better if you always wear the same outfit.

Every guitar I own gets used and has its purpose.

My favorite part of theatre is that I get paid for it!

Infinite patience produces immediate results.

Cease to lament for that thou canst not help; and study help for that which thou lamentest.