The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor. Votes: 25
The commencement speech is not, I think, a wholly satisfactory manifestation of our culture. Votes: 13
Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted. Votes: 10
In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone. Votes: 6
There's a certain part of the contented majority who love anybody who is worth a billion dollars. Votes: 0
It is possible that people need to believe they are unmanaged if they are to be managed effectively. Votes: 0
I do the best with what exists. Votes: 0
Ralph [ Nader] is an old friend of mine, and he does a useful job in displaying a position. Votes: 0
You roll back the stones, and you find slithering things. That is the world of Richard Nixon. Votes: 0
Economics is not an exact science. Votes: 0
The spirit should never grow old. Votes: 0
When you see reference to a new paradigm you should always, under all circumstances, take cover. Votes: 0
People are the common denominator of progress; no improvement is possible with unimproved people. Votes: 0
In the autumn of 1929 the mightiest of Americans were, for a brief time, revealed as human beings. Votes: 0
The modern corporation must manufacture not only goods but the desire for the goods it manufactures. Votes: 0
People who are in a fortunate position always attribute virtue to what makes them so happy. Votes: 0
In the affluent society, no useful distinction can be made between luxuries and necessities. Votes: 0
If you get a reputation for being honest, you have 95 percent of the competition already beat. Votes: 0
Genius is a rising stock market. Votes: 0
We are becoming the servants in thought, as in action of the machine we have created to serve us. Votes: 0
Truth has anciently been called the first casualty of war. Money may, in fact, have priority. Votes: 0
A businessman who reads Business Week is lost to fame. One who reads Proust is marked for greatness. Votes: 0
In the assumption that power belongs as a matter of course to capital, all economists are Marxians. Votes: 0
No hungry man who is also sober can be persuaded to use his last dollar for anything but food. Votes: 0
Any country that has Milton Friedman as an adviser has nothing to fear from a few million Arabs. Votes: 0
But it can be laid down as a rule that those who speak most of liberty are least inclined to use it. Votes: 0
Economic life, as always, is a matrix in which result becomes cause and cause becomes result. Votes: 0
American university presidents are a nervous breed; I have never thought well of them as a class. Votes: 0
Power is as power does. Votes: 0
Ideas may be superior to vested interest. They are also very often the children of vested interest. Votes: 0