PBS TV Series "Free to Choose" by Economist Milton Friedman is now available free on Google Video via the links below.
Milton Friedman Quotes:
- "The most important single central fact about a free market is that no exchange takes place unless both parties benefit."
- "Nobody spends somebody else's money as carefully as he spends his own. Nobody uses somebody else's resources as carefully as he uses his own. So if you want efficiency and effectiveness, if you want knowledge to be properly utilized, you have to do it through the means of private property."
- "Governments never learn. Only people learn."
- "So the question is, do corporate executives, provided they stay within the law, have responsibilities in their business activities other than to make as much money for their stockholders as possible? And my answer to that is, no they do not"
- "The only way that has ever been discovered to have a lot of people cooperate together voluntarily is through the free market. And that's why it's so essential to preserving individual freedom."
- "Most economic fallacies derive - from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another."
- "Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself."
- "What kind of society isn't structured on greed? The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the least harm; capitalism is that kind of a system""History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition."
- "The society that puts equality before freedom will end up with neither. The society that puts freedom before equality will end up with a great measure of both."
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