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More Quotes by Milton Friedman
If you pay people not to work and tax them when they do, don't be surprised if you get unemployment.
When you start paying people to be poor, you wind up with an awful lot of poor people.
Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.
We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.
What makes it [economics] most fascinating is that its fundamental principles are so simple that they can be written on one page, that anyone can understand them, and yet very few do.
The essential notion of a capitalist society ... is voluntary cooperation, voluntary exchange. The essential notion of a socialist society is force.
A society that puts equality — in the sense of equality of outcome — ahead of freedom will end up with neither equality nor freedom. The use of force to achieve equality will destroy freedom, and the force, introduced for good purposes, will end up in the hands of people who use it to promote their own interests.
Nobody spends somebody else's money as carefully as he spends his own.
A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.
The only corporate social responsibility a company has is to maximize its profits.