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More Quotes by Milton Friedman
One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.
If you pay people not to work and tax them when they do, don't be surprised if you get unemployment.
The word 'free' is used three times in the Declaration of Independence and once in the First Amendment to the Constitution, along with 'freedom.' The word 'fair' is not used in either of our founding documents.
Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.
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.
A minimum-wage law is, in reality, a law that makes it illegal for an employer to hire a person with limited skills.
Since the 1930s the technique of buying votes with the voters' own money has been expanded to an extent undreamed of by earlier politicians.
The only corporate social responsibility a company has is to maximize its profits.
If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.
When a man spends his own money to buy something for himself, he is very careful about how much he spends and how he spends it. When a man spends his own money to buy something for someone else, he is still very careful about how much he spends, but somewhat less what he spends it on. When a man spends someone else's money to buy something for himself, he is very careful about what he buys, but doesn't care at all how much he spends. And when a man spends someone else's money on someone else, he does't care how much he spends or what he spends it on. And that's government for you.
