I begin with the renaming of the system. It used to be capitalism. But that evokes [Karl] Marx and [John] Rockefeller. So now we speak of the market system. That is a nice bland expression, which forgets those off-color references.

According to the experience of all but the most accomplished jugglers, it is easier to keep one ball in the air than many.

I feel very angry when I think of brilliant, or even interesting, women whose minds are wasted on a home. Better have an affair. It isn't permanent and you keep your job.

I was in charge of price controls in World War II and had a ceiling on overall prices. Everybody who was subject to general maximum price regulation wanted an exception and went to Congress to persuade a Congressman, or a group of people on the Hill, that I was being a menace to their industry.

In the market economy the price that is offered is counted upon to produce the result that is sought.

I have never understood why one's affections must be confined, as once with women, to a single country.

Happiness does not require an expanding economy