Public works are not accomplished by the miraculous power of a magic wand. They are paid for by funds taken away from the citizens.

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.

Books and movies, they are not mere entertainment. They sustain me and help me cope with my real life.

In all fairness, darlin’, I should probably warn you that this ain’t my first rodeo.

I do not know about you. But, I prefer a life spent making mistakes than a life making none.

Well, it hurts but that maybe the only way.

Whoe'er he be That tells my faults, I hate him mortally.

I've been married for 46 years, and I live in a nice house, my grass is always cut, I pay my bills, and my cat loves me!

My goal as a young man, to be fat, famous and financially fixed by 50.

CEOs are no different than the guy in the mailroom. They all have to learn how to manage better the risk created by our increasingly risk-shifting world.

Writing is still my main career, but I would love, for instance, to serve in the New York State Assembly.

Interest is a terrible thing to waste.