Famous Milton Friedman Quotes

#1. Economists agree about economics - and that's a science - and they disagree about economic policy because that's a value judgment ... I've had profound disagreements on policy with the famous Milton Friedman. But, on economics, we agree.

Franco Modigliani

#2. There are two sets of business capabilities: Competitive necessity and competitive uniqueness.

Pearl Zhu

#3. Intuitive responses are responses which originate from joy.

Sylvia Clare

#4. I think anyone who wants to live past 100 can do it.

David H. Murdock

#5. The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.

Francis Bacon

#6. The older you get, the easier it is to get injured. But what I've learned the hard way is that the more excess weight you have, the more likely you are to get injured doing everyday things.

Steve Howey

#7. Actually we're not hearing a lot about gas prices right now from constituents. And I think that reflects a growing understanding on the part of the public, that there really is very little that the government and politicians can do.

John Yarmuth

#8. Seek the truly practical life, but seek it in such a way that it does not blind you to the spirit working in it. Seek the spirit, but seek it not out of spiritual greed, but so that you may apply it in the genuinely practical life.

Rudolf Steiner

#9. Speech is for the convenience of those who are hard of hearing; but there are many fine things which we cannot say if we have to shout.

Henry David Thoreau

#10. I object!
What?
Bugger, was that acting?
Is not courtroom, Katya.
Shut up! I'm not good at having two conversations at once. And I hate Scott's plan!
You mean you "object" to it.

Joss Whedon

#11. Now I shall go to sleep. Goodnight.

Lord Byron

#12. A money-financed tax cut is essentially equivalent to Milton Friedman's famous 'helicopter drop' of money.

Ben Bernanke

#13. You've got to pursue your dreams and it will get you to places that you can't even imagine.

Jackson Guthy

#14. On rare occasions one does hear of a miraculous case of a married couple falling in love after marriage, but on close examination it will be found that it is a mere adjustment to the inevitable.

Emma Goldman

#15. Inflation', wrote Milton Friedman in a famous definition, 'is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon, in the sense that it cannot occur without a more rapid increase in the quantity of money than in output.

Niall Ferguson

#16. Denzel Washington is someone I look up to.

Dayo Okeniyi

#17. It's tiring to be asked the same questions all day long: 'What is Gangnam style?' and 'Teach me how to dance.'

Psy