There is one and only one social responsibility of business - to use it resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game, which is to say, engages in open and free competition without deception or fraud.

We don't have a desperate need to grow. We have a desperate desire to grow.

A minimum-wage law is, in reality, a law that makes it illegal for an employer to hire a person with limited skills.

The Great Depression was not a sign of the failure of monetary policy or a result of the failure of the market system as was widely interpreted. It was instead a consequence of a very serious government failure, in particular a failure in the monetary authorities to do what they'd initially been set up to do.

Inflation is a monetary phenomenon. It is made by or stopped by the central bank.

Is it really true that political self-interest is nobler somehow than economic self-interest?

The argument for collectivism is simple if false; it is an immediate emotional argument. The argument for individualism is subtle and sophisticated; it is an indirect rational argument. And the emotional faculties are more highly developed in most men than the rational, paradoxically or especially even in those who regard themselves as intellectuals.