Practically all government attempts to redistribute wealth and income tend to smother productive incentives and lead toward general impoverishment.

Give me the clear blue sky above my head, and the green turf beneath my feet, a winding road before me, and a three hours' march to dinner - and then to thinking!

Economics is haunted by more fallacies than any other study known to man

When the government makes loans or subsidies to business, what it does is to tax successful private business in order to support unsuccessful private business.

The 'private sector' of the economy is, in fact, the voluntary sector; and the 'public sector' is, in fact, the coercive sector.

The envious are more likely to be mollified by seeing others deprived of some advantage than by gaining it for themselves. It is not what they lack that chiefly troubles them, but what others have.

The government has nothing to give to anybody that it doesn't first take from someone else.

The first requisite of a sound monetary system is that it put the least possible power over the quantity or quality of money in the hands of the politicians.

Inflation makes the extension of socialism possible by providing the financial chaos in which it flourishes. The fact is that socialism and inflation are cause and effect, they feed on each other!

There is no more certain way to deter employment than to harass and penalize employers.

Today is already the tomorrow which the bad economist yesterday urged us to ignore.

I personally don't think about jumping because things can't possibly get worse... To the contrary, I contemplate it because I believe things probably will.

Fall in love with your uniqueness because that's what makes your presence on earth a very special one.

Literacy: Blessing? Or curse?

I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.

My leadership will end the Obama era and begin a new era of American prosperity.

Once my ears were open to hearing mentions of 'Shark Tank', I was surprised by how many people in our world, even in our industry, tech and finance, loved the show.

I think I'm attracted to the mystics, to seeing needs in the world. I'm attracted to caring for people who are disenfranchised. I'm attracted to getting rid of worldly possessions.

I would have to say that my mother's entrepreneurial perspective, and that of her father's, are very evident in my own outlook.

There is no new knowledge, all is ancient and infinite

Everybody wants to save the Earth; nobody wants to help Mom do the dishes.