Economics Quotes

"Religion is the opium of the masses." "Price is what you pay. Value is what you get" "Socialism doesn't work because people need to be free" "Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons" "The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency" "The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people" "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." "You don't pay taxes, they take taxes" "The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries." "Tell me how much a dollar cost" "A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain." "It is much easier to scam people for billions than it is to scam them for millions" "If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich" "All the real benefits in life come from compound interest" "Sometimes your best investments are the ones you don’t make" "Money is not the only answer, but it makes a difference." "There is no such thing as a free lunch." "The reason that 'gouge' is not treated as a serious matter is that it is so universal and conducted on so large a scale" "Society will pay you for creating things it wants" "The lack of money is the root of all evil."