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If you get a reputation for being honest, you have 95 percent of the competition already beat.
No hungry man who is also sober can be persuaded to use his last dollar for anything but food.
I said a vote to leave would be a Brexit tax. I couldn't think of anything stronger than that.
The only surprise about the economic crisis of 2008 was that it came as a surprise to so many.
Tavis Smiley lost lots of corporate support after he was critical of President [Barack] Obama.
A world of unseen dictatorship is conceivable, still using the forms of democratic government.
I was born in Boston, Massachusetts on May 16, 1923, the only child of Joel and Sylvia Miller.
The fundamental axiom, then, for the study of man is the existence of individual consciousness
I can take hardship. I can sleep on the cold floor anytime. I can also sleep on a feather bed.
The French, unfortunately, actually believe what they say, and that has been very destructive.
There's one thing that the Fed has been really good at cracking down on, and that's inflation.
God did not say that you should be able to borrow one hundred percent of the price of a house.
One reason for high health care costs is that patients fail to follow their treatment regimen.
Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.
All things are the same except for the differences, and different except for the similarities.
Most variables can show either an upward or downward trend, depending on the base year chosen.
The hours from 7 to 12 are your time to build for the future before the world descends on you.
Keep in mind that books, like art museums, are not always geared to the desires of the reader.
The crucial question for any policy is not what, are its intentions, but what are its effects?
The essence of government is force, and most often that force is used to accomplish evil ends.
Anything that we can do to raise personal savings is very much in the interest of this country.
Freedoms are not only the primary ends of development, they are also among its principal means.
The lack of economic freedom could be a very major reason for loss of liberty, liberty of life.
China is growing very quickly and is clearly becoming an important player in the world economy.
The price of corn will naturally rise with the difficulty of producing the last portions of it.
The variation in the value of money, however great, makes no difference in the rate of profits.
The idea that human kind can shape the world according to wish is what I call the fatal conceit
The slaves of socialism are slaves, but they are no one's property and therefore no one's loss.
Growth is widely thought to be the panacea for all the major economic ills of the modern world.
This weakening is worsened by the widening distance between the governed and their governments.
Housing is a relatively small sector of the economy, and its decline should be self-correcting.
Competition-ruthless, unforgiving, to-the-death competition-is a crucial feature of capitalism.
economics limps along with one foot in untested hypotheses and the other in untestable slogans.
The biggest problem is not to let people accept new ideas, but to let them forget the old ones.
We've been doing this for 10 years and it's been a hobby for a lot longer than it's been a job.
One reason why the progressive state is 'cheerful' is that social conflict is diminished by it.
The combination of economic and political power in the same hands is a sure recipe for tyranny.
You know there are very few Marxists left in the world... they're all in American universities.
A free man will ask neither what his country can do for him nor what he can do for his country.
There is no person, no theorist so reckless as he who says that the facts speak for themselves.
Rapid increases in the quantity of money produce inflation. Sharp decreases produce depression.
It is not the business of the law to make anyone good or reverent or moral or clean or upright.
The state has typically been a device for producing affluence for a few at the expense of many.
There is still time to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, if we take strong action now.
Technology is spurring innovation, and the so-called "demographic dividend" has brought change.
As truth is Washington's worst enemy, everyone associated with the truth is Washington's enemy.
Most work in macroeconomics in the past 30 years has been useless at best and harmful at worst.
I'm not sure that the current value of the NASDAQ is justified, but I'm not sure that it isn't.
Tax cuts were not going to be effective at creating jobs, and the job creation record is lousy.
I didn't vote for Trump. So we've got him. Let's hope for the best. He might do something good.