To assign to everybody his proper place in society is the task of the consumers. Their buying and abstention from buying is instrumental in determining each individual's social position.

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 lures people with its temptations and attractions, masking them with a cover of pleasure

There was nothing glorious about the life of a drinker or the life of a writer.

Kill me, then! You will not win, you cannot win! The wand will never, ever be yours-

I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than to be crowded on a velvet cushion.

It's my view that human dignity - an attribute which for years has been taken by the Left in British politics - resides in fact in Tory values of independence, individuality and self determination.

Everything that goes on in your whole life is a result of molecules rushing around somewhere in your brain.

The genius thing that we did was, we didn't give up.

Salt and the center of the world have to be there, in that spot on the tablecloth.

Entrepreneurs: The only people who work 80 hour weeks to avoid working 40 hour weeks.

Every moment you spend thinking about the bad stuff pushes that much more of the good stuff away.