Milton Friedman’s misfortune is that his economic policies have been tried.

The power of the corporate bureaucracy - the power of technostructure (a term that did not take off) - is something to which I still adhere.

The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.

Change comes not from men and women changing their minds, but from the change from one generation to the next.

All crises have involved debt that, in one fashion or another, has become dangerously out of scale in relation to the underlying means of payment.

Economic stimulation that works through the increased outlays to the affluent has, inevitably, an aspect of soundness and sanity that is lacking in expenditure on behalf of the undeserving poor.

I would put primary emphasis on a good standard of living equitably distributed. It can't be equal, but one that eliminates the terrible cruelty of poverty.