Many of the products which create a modern standard of living are only the physical incorporations of ideas- not only read more

Many of the products which create a modern standard of living are only the physical incorporations of ideas- not only the ideas of an Edison or a Ford but the ideas of innumerable anonymous people who figure out the design of supermarkets, the location of gasoline stations, and the million mundane things on which our material well-being depends. Societies which have more people carrying out physical acts and fewer people supplying ideas do not have higher standards of living. Quite the contrary.

Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and read more

Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and a great national debt.

I get so tired listening to one million dollars here, one million dollars there, it's so petty.

I get so tired listening to one million dollars here, one million dollars there, it's so petty.

Economics is not about things and tangible material objects; it is about men, their meanings and actions.

Economics is not about things and tangible material objects; it is about men, their meanings and actions.

Money talks...but all mine ever says is good-bye.

Money talks...but all mine ever says is good-bye.

Buying is a profound pleasure.

Buying is a profound pleasure.

Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find read more

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.

Only little people pay taxes.

Only little people pay taxes.

Only the little people pay taxes.

Only the little people pay taxes.