The boom is called good business, prosperity, and upswing. Its unavoidable aftermath, the readjustment of conditions to the real data of the market, is called crisis, slump, bad business, depression.

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.

The world needs courage and conscience that can penetrate into the darkest mysteries and secrets of the universe.

(...) and spend my days surrounded by wise books, - bright windows in this life of ours, lit by the shining souls of men.

Every stage of life must be well-lived.There are sacred moments to treasure in each stage.

I think some people are just very passionate that things remain the way they were when they were kids.

It seems to me that it is the basic right of any human being to work.

you're like a siren, leading me into dangerous places

Every artist is different - I work with a lot of artists from the ground up because it's really amazing to watch projects go from Minute 1.

Investing should be more like watching paint dry or watching grass grow. If you want excitement, take $800 and go to Las Vegas.

Many a person has been saved from summer alcoholism, not to mention hypertoxicity, by Dostoyevsky.