Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2011-02-13 Feb 11, 2011Regulation -- which is based on force and fear -- undermines the moral base of business dealings. It becomes cheaper to bribe a building inspector than to meet his standards of construction. A fly-by-night securities operator can quickly meet all the S.E.C. requirements, gain the inference of respectability, and proceed to fleece the public. In an unregulated economy, the operator would have had to spend a number of years in reputable dealings before he could earn a position of trust sufficient to induce a number of investors to place funds with him. Protection of the consumer by regulation is thus illusory.~ Alan GreenspanHe who will not economize will have to agonize.~ ConfuciusThe use of force to achieve equality will destroy freedom, and the force, introduced for good purposes, will end up in the hands of people who use it to promote their own interest.~ Milton Friedman Feb 10, 2011I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don´t trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if anything is to be got by it.~ Charles DickensCuriosity is the kernal of forbidden fruit.~ Dr. Thomas FullerRevenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive.~ Edward Gibbon Feb 9, 2011As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.~ Andrew CarnegieI'm proud to pay taxes in the United States; the only thing is, I could be just as proud for half the money.~ Arthur GodfreyDiplomats are only useful in fair weather. As soon as it rains, they drown in every drop.~ Charles DeGaulle Feb 8, 2011Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.~ Albert EinsteinFor the problem of decision-making in our complicated world is not how to get the problem simple enough so that we can all understand it; the problem is how to get our thinking about the problem as complex as humanly possible--and thus approach (we can never match) the complexity of the real world around us.~ Harlan ClevelandIf you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing.~ W. Edwards Deming Feb 7, 2011Since the federal constitution has removed all danger of our having a paper tender, our trade is advanced fifty percent. Our monied people can trust their cash abroad, and have brought their coin into circulation.~ The Pennsylvania GazetteAs a very important source of strength and security, cherish public credit. One method of preserving it is to use it as sparingly as possible, avoiding occasions of expense by cultivating peace, but remembering also that timely disbursements to prepare for danger frequently prevent much greater disbursements to repel it, avoiding likewise the accumulation of debt, not only by shunning occasions of expense, but by vigorous exertion in time of peace to discharge the debts which unavoidable wars may have occasioned, not ungenerously throwing upon posterity the burden which we ourselves ought to bear. The execution of these maxims belongs to your representatives, but it is necessary that public opinion should co-operate.~ George WashingtonThe chief duty of the National Government in connection with the currency of the country is to coin money and declare its value. Grave doubts have been entertained whether Congress is authorized by the Constitution to make any form of paper money legal tender. The present issue of United States notes has been sustained by the necessities of war; but such paper should depend for its value and currency upon its convenience in use and its prompt redemption in coin at the will of the holder, and not upon its compulsory circulation. These notes are not money, but promises to pay money. If the holders demand it, the promise should be kept.~ James A. Garfield Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print