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Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated.

Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded- here and there, now and then- are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty.This is known as "bad luck.".

...we see that there are two different kinds of...societies: parasitic societies and producing societies. The former are those which live from hunting, fishing, or merely gleaning. By their economic activities they do not increase, but rather decrease, the amount of wealth in the world. The second kind of societies, producing societies, live by agricultural and pastoral activities. By these activities they seek to increase the amount of wealth in the world.

What protectionism teaches us, is to do to ourselves in time of peace what enemies seek to do to us in time of war.

Value is not intrinsic; it is not in things. It is within us; it is the way in which man reacts to the conditions of his environment.

The essence of wealth is the capacity to control the forces of nature, and the extent of wealth depends upon the level of technology and the ability to create new knowledge.

When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.

Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.

My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.

Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find out how to do it.

In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.

The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you ask them a real tax question, such as how you can cheat, they're useless. So, for guidance, you want to look to big business. Big business never pays a nickel in taxes, according to Ralph Nader, who represents a big consumer organization that never pays a nickel in taxes...

Only the little people pay taxes.

I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.

All currency is neurotic currency.

In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known -- that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness.

The entire essence of America is the hope to first make money -- then make money with money -- then make lots of money with lots of money.

Money, the root of all evil...but the cure for all sadness.

There ain't no such thing as a free lunch." A Libertarian Movement slogan - The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, 1907.

The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.