Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.

The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones.

Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men, for the nastiest of reasons, will somehow work for the benefit of us all.

By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.

When the facts change, I change my mind.

It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.

The biggest problem is not to let people accept new ideas, but to let them forget the old ones.

If farming were to be organised like the stock market, a farmer would sell his farm in the morning when it was raining, only to buy it back in the afternoon when the sun came out.

The outstanding faults of the economic society in which we live are its failure to provide for full employment and its arbitrary and inequitable distribution of wealth and incomes.

Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.

The boom, not the slump, is the right time for austerity at the Treasury.

Pseudo idealism: apparent charitable behaviour that on scrutiny is revealed as selfish, because the giver is engaging in it only so that he or she can feel good about him or herself

Anytime you bring Michael Olowokandi on to your team, disaster is soon to follow.

When I'm designing I try to think about what I like to see on other people.

No man likes to be smoked out of his hole in February.

How is the economy supposed to recover when people can't afford to fill the tank?

Always maintain a joyful mind. Appreciate the struggles as opportunities to wake up.

Without the threat of death, there's no reason to live... at all.

Do we really have the right to take care of ourselves? Do we really have the right to set boundaries? Do we really have the right to be direct and say what we need to say? You bet we do.

The perception of poverty as morally intolerable in a rich society had to await the emergence of a rich society

Inflation is bringing us true democracy. For the first time in history, luxuries and necessities are selling at the same price.