It is indeed one of the principal drawbacks of every kind of interventionism that it is so difficult to reverse the process.

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.

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.

I don't want to see the uncut version of anything.

All the butterflies and cockyolybirds would fly past me.

I don't believe in taking foolish chances, but nothing can be accomplished if we don't take any chances at all.

If you want to be somewhere, you should go to that place and check it out.

But I know all the things you're too sweet to know.

Everyone keeps asking me: 'Are you going to win?' How on earth do you know if you're going to win or not?

In the morning, when you are sluggish about getting up, let this thought be present: 'I am rising to a man's work.'

I never know when the seeds are being laid, I'm just like, "Wow, that's a pretty cool scene. Is that? Are we laying seeds here?"

The company that consistently makes and implements decisions rapidly gains a tremendous, often decisive, competitive advantage.