552 Quotes by Milton Friedman

The problem in this world is to avoid concentration of power – we must have a dispersion of power.

Society doesn’t have values. People have values.

There’s no point in comparing an actual, operating system with an ideal system that doesn’t exist.

I think it’s a scandal what has been happening in the school system so far as lower income classes. The dropout rates, the illiteracy rate, you know literacy in the United States was a lot higher in 1890 than it is now.

The Internet moves us closer to “perfect information” on markets. Individuals and companies alike can buy and sell across borders and jurisdictions wherever they find the best match of supply and demand.

So long as large sums of money are involved – and they are bound to be if drugs are illegal – it is literally impossible to stop the traffic, or even to make a serious reduction in its scope.

All learning is ultimately self-learning.

The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase its Profits.

One man’s opportunism is another man’s statesmanship.