Economist Milton Friedman Quotes

#1. Minimum wage increases. The Nobel Prize economist Milton Friedman has observed that the minimum wage is "one of the most ... anti-black laws on the statute books" because it destroys entry level jobs for second paycheck earners, teens, and other unskilled workers.

David Horowitz

#2. During my time at Watchung Hills Regional High School, I was fortunate to have a number of teachers who inspired me and filled me with enthusiasm for learning.

Adam Riess

#3. Peter was a gentle, red-haired bear of a man. Standing at six-four in his socks, he moved everywhere with a slight and nautical sway, but even though he was broad across the chest there was something centered and reassuring about him, like an old ship's mast cut from a single timber.

Graham Joyce

#4. At my school, they have an ice cream special sometimes, and they have this ice cream sandwich, except the sandwich part is like an Oreo and the inside like cookies n' cream ice cream. I love that.

Lilla Crawford

#5. It's not about people believing the story. It's about you knowing and holding it to be true.

Joan Ambu

#6. Every economist knows that minimum wages either do nothing or cause inflation and unemployment. That's not a statement, it's a definition.

Milton Friedman

#7. I think almost every economist would agree that government gets itself in trouble when it tries to interfere with voluntary behavior.

Milton Friedman

#8. The world is a divine dream, from which we may presently awake to the glories and certainties of day.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#9. The eternal conflict of good and the best with bad and the worst is on.

Melvil Dewey

#10. In your fantasies you imagine that you'd love to have all the clutter gone so you could relax, but in fact, nobody really wants to relax. Not for very long, anyway. Everybody needs something to do.

Barbara Sher

#11. My concern is to continue respecting my work as I've done since I began as an actor and I could only do that if I'm strong enough to keep on doing what I think best in an artistic way.

Javier Bardem

#12. To the despair of every economist, it seems almost impossible for most people other than trained economists to comprehend how a price system works. Reporters and TV commentators seem especially resistant to the elementary principles they supposedly imbibed in freshman economics. Second,

Milton Friedman

#13. I believe that death should not be feared instead we should endure life and give our best even though life isn't always fair we shall always enjoy life the way it comes and if death is upon us its cause its time for us to go knowing that there is something better for us ...

Miguel Angel Puma

#14. I love cereal. I eat several bowls a day, mostly a few late at night.

Paul Dano

#15. I grew up in Texas, but that was 20 years ago. Last year, in Fort Worth, they had hail the size of softballs. We're seeing more and more powerful storms, of all types, almost on a biblical level.

Bill Paxton

#16. Learning to appreciate those things that aren't related to success has proved the biggest lesson.

Chet Faker

#17. All great economists are tall. There are two exceptions: John Kenneth Galbraith and Milton Friedman.

George Stigler

#18. Too long has the public mind considered religion to be synonymous with priestcraft.

Benjamin Whorf