A good rule of conversation is never answer a foolish question.

Getting on the cover of TIME guarantees the existence of opposition in the future.

Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted.

Then came the second Amsterdam discovery, although the principle was known elsewhere. Bank deposits...did not need to be left idly in the bank. They could be lent. The bank then got interest. The borrower then had a deposit that he could spend. But the original deposit still stood to the credit of the original depositor. That too could be spent. Money, spendable money, had been created. Let no one rub his or her eyes. It's still being done-every day. The creation of money by a bank is as simple as this, so simple, I've often said, that the mind is slightly repelled.

No hungry man who is also sober can be persuaded to use his last dollar for anything but food.

In economics it is a far, far wiser thing to be right than to be consistent

A nuclear war does not defend a country and it does not defend a system. I've put it the same way many times; not even the most accomplished ideologue will be able to tell the difference between the ashes of capitalism and the ashes of communism.