The notion that you would initiate a new product without preparing the way by persuasion and advertising and salesmanship is fantastic. It's an integral part of the system.

Only foolish people are completely secure.

Things that come from the private sector are in abundant supply; things that depend on the public sector are widely a problem. We're a world, as I said in The Affluent Society, of filthy streets and clean houses, poor schools and expensive television.

The world of finance hails the invention of the wheel over and over again, often in a slightly more unstable version.

No intelligence system can predict what a government will do if it doesn't know itself.

One of my greatest pleasures in my writing has come from the thought that perhaps my work might annoy someone of comfortably pretentious position. Then comes the realization that such people rarely read.

Economists are economical, among other things, of ideas; most make those of their graduate days do for a lifetime.