The development of capitalism consists in everyone having the right to serve the consumer better or more cheaply.

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.

Your attitude will ultimately determine and define your altitude of life

Difficult do you call it, Sir? I wish it were impossible. [on hearing a famous violinist]

A smile is the best way to get away with trouble even if it’s a fake one.

I am a prisoner of perception, a compulsory witness.

Lying's wrong, but when the world spins backwards, a small wrong may be a big right.

Our jobs are fleeing the country. They're going to Mexico. They're going to many other countries. You look at what China is doing to America in terms of making our product.

A world without love would be no world.

Impossible is just the possible that someone has not put enough effort to make it come true.

It is the stress that holds the structure up.

I like physical exercise. I actually like sports in general. I really like snowboarding and playing soccer, too.