The engine which drives enterprise is not thrift, but profit.

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.

The USA is a beautiful country...when you take the corrupt corporations and their government minions out of the equation.

The political mind is the product of men in public life who have been twice spoiled. They have been spoiled with praise and they have been spoiled with abuse. – Calvin Coolidge

The force of the advertising word and image dwarfs the power of other literature in the 20th century.

If you don't give education to people, it is easy to manipulate them.

Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.

Culture makes pain tolerable by interpreting it's necessity; only pain perceived as curable is intolerable.

We all have so many different elements inside of us and we're not all one thing.

But really death seems the least awful thing that can happen to someone

Rich people manage their money well. Poor people mismanage their money well.

The surface of things is not where attention should rest.