The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.

The ideas by which people . . . interpret their existence and in measure guide their behavior, were not forged in a world of wealth.

I talked about the consolidation of power in the hands of the corporate bureaucracy, as distinct from the stockholders. To this view, I still strongly adhere.

It was Herbert Spencer, not Charles Darwin, who coined the phrase Survival of the Fittest.

More die in the United States of too much food than of too little.

Those days [of the Vietnam War] you couldn't get on a bus going to the South without expecting a riot over something or the other. All of that has disappeared thanks to Lyndon Johnson.

One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.