63 Quotes by Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski

Bad economics teaches that computers can design markets. Good economics teaches that markets can design computers.

For the greater good":the phrase that always precedesthe greatest evil.

Entrepreneurship is the use of self-interest in the service of others. Politics is the use of others in the service of self-interest.

The world will know peace when the entrepreneur fully masters the art of starving the politician.

A civilization is glorious in its successes and tragic in its failures. An anti-civilization is terrifying in its successes and spectacular in its failures. A pseudo-civilization is annoying in its successes and ridiculous in its failures.

Individual liberty may be unable to solve every social problem, but collective violence is unable to solve any social problem.

It takes abstract thinking to see how greed can lead to prosperity, but it takes wishful thinking to claim that violence can lead to charity.

A foolish environmentalist wants to save nature from the greed of the market by exposing it to the tragedy of the commons. A smart environmentalist wants to save nature from the tragedy of the commons by exposing it to the greed of the market.

Whenever one feels like saying “the money that billionaire spent on his fleet of yachts could have been used better by the "public sector”“, one should ask oneself when was the last time one heard of a billionaire buying an army of tanks and a set of nuclear weapons.