Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2011-02-14 Feb 14, 2011It constantly amazes me that defenders of the free market are expected to offer certainty and perfection while government has only to make promises and express good intentions. Many times, for instance, I’ve heard people say, "A free market in education is a bad idea because some child somewhere might fall through the cracks," even though in today’s government school, millions of children are falling through the cracks every day.~ Dr. Lawrence W. ReedFairness does not require the redistribution of wealth; it requires the creation of wealth, geared to an economy that can provide employment for everyone able and willing to work.~ Felix RohatynNo one spends someone else’s money as carefully as he spends his own.~ Mark Skousen 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 Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print