Far too many businesses have been all too eager to lobby for maintaining and increasing subsidies and mandates paid by taxpayers and consumers.

Innovation comes from recombining existing technology and different perspectives in innovative ways.

If somebody is doing more and more to make other people's lives better, have them make all they can, if that's what drives them, because that's what we want.

Many businesses with unpopular products or inefficient production find it much easier to curry the favor of a few influential politicians or a government agency than to compete in the open market.

The problem is, to have prices fall would work fine if we didn't have all these built in rigidities on downward prices, because then things don't adjust, and that's how we have recessions and depressions, is prices and costs don't adjust together and they get out of whack, and we end up with dislocations.

The government is largely influenced by people who advocate corporate welfare and advocate these policies that create this two-tiered society...

To do meaningful work is to contribute - to create value in society.