Top 100 Friedman Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Friedman

#1. Regaring Politics: You've got your cats on one side and your dogs on the other; someone has to walk the fence and feed the animals. - Kinky Friedman

Ray Palla

#2. Milton Friedman's misfortune is that his economic policies have been tried.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#3. Mrs. Friedman lived in a happy snow globe of AP History.

Harlan Coben

#4. When the economy was going up, [Milton Friedman and I] both gave the same advice, and when the economy was going down, we gave the same advice. But in between he didn't change his advice at all.

Paul Samuelson

#5. Tom Friedman says China is so awesome they make kosher pigs.

Jonah Goldberg

#6. In 1990, Howard Friedman and Leslie Martin, two psychologists at the University of California, Riverside, embarked on a research project within a research project, seeking answers to the question, 'What makes for a long life?'

Katie Hafner

#7. It is depressing but not shocking to witness the liberal intelligentsia embrace Ari Shavit so enthusiastically. Shavit is someone who is as consistently wrong as Thomas Friedman on major issues, and at least as much a courtier of power.

Max Blumenthal

#8. As to the meaning of "corporate social responsibility," Friedman and I would agree: If a certain action improves the corporation's bottom line, there's no point in labeling it "socially responsible." It's just good business.

Robert Reich

#9. If you put the government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in five years there'd be a shortage of sand. - Milton Friedman

Vikram Mansharamani

#10. 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

#11. I owe my discovery of the Hot Club of Cowtown to Kinky Friedman, leader of the Texas Jewboys. When I saw that Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys were headlining the 2003 Santa Clarita Cowboy Poetry and Music Festival, I thought it my duty to check out the band that had inspired the Texas Jewboys.

Clive Sinclair

#12. Drew Friedman isn't just a brilliant artist. He takes you to a place. He takes you back in time. He makes you smell the stale cigarettes and cold brisket and you say, thank you for the pleasure.

Sarah Silverman

#13. Everything reminds Milton Friedman of the money supply. Everything reminds me of sex, but I try to keep it out of my papers.

Robert Solow

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

George Stigler

#15. Thomas Friedman's 'The World is Flat' sold more copies in India than in the U.K. The market for go-getting business books or wonkish tomes by corporate moguls posing as philosopher kings has grown dramatically in modernising China and India.

Pankaj Mishra

#16. By now, it seems as if everyone has already read Thomas L. Friedman's 'The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century.' It changed the way we think about global business, competitiveness and the implication for far-flung economies, governments, education and more.

Andrew Ross Sorkin

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

Ben Bernanke

#18. (Mr. Friedman) was always kind of dopey."
"Actually, Bob is very smart. Too smart to be a teacher. It's why he doesn't connect with the stuxents.

Jessica Knoll

#19. Ed Friedman: [talking about Patti Smith] One time she told me, "Allen Ginsberg thought I was a cute boy and he tried to pick me up, so I said, "LOOK AT THE TITS, ALLEN! NOTICE THE TITS!

Legs McNeil

#20. I think, Tom Friedman is right, and I think that we have to - we have to have a serious public dialogue to try to shift public policy in that regard.

Cornel West

#21. Neil Young and Barry Friedman had stolen a Buffalo Springfield sign off the steamroller for Barrys house. They put it up. We all looked at it on the wall and a light went off. That's how we came up with the name

Stephen Stills

#22. We enjoy talking about music, politics, and subjugation. - Kinky Friedman to Night Rider on KOKE-FM

Ray Palla

#23. If I really believed in Friedman's economic theory, then I'd be quite satisfied to spend the rest of my life with a garden hose shoved down my throat, being filled with custard by representatives of the people of China.

Nigel Lawson

#24. He swayed side-to-side, fighting against my compulsion. I smiled sweetly, leaning in and grazing my nail across his cheek. "You understand?" Skin contact made it solid. His shock melted into a gooey grin.

J.M. Friedman. Succubus in Seattle (Kindle Locations 173-175).

J.R. Thorn

#25. Any country that has Milton Friedman as an adviser has nothing to fear from a few million Arabs.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#26. The myth of the inevitability of economic globalization is based largely on the work of Milton Friedman, and easily the most underreported story of our time is that the current economy proves Friedman flatly wrong.

Molly Ivins

#27. In terms of companies, they must stand for something bigger. They must be dedicated to something larger than financial results. I reject the Milton Friedman belief that a company's sole responsibility is to the shareholders.

Srikumar Rao

#28. I went to see 'Listen to My Heart: The Songs of David Friedman.' I have been a fan of his music for years, and I was invited to opening night because I know one of the producers.

John Edward

#29. I took the obligatory economics classes in school, but I've long been a fan of the Milton Friedman philosophy and its libertarian bent: One must be free to do what one wants to do, as long as you don't harm another. This is the seminal treatise on free-market economics.

Charlie Trotter

#30. 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

#31. With the passing of Milton Friedman on November 16, 2006, we lost one of the great champions of free markets.

Steve Hanke

#32. 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

#33. While no inference is intended here, it is worth noting, in connection with Milton Friedman's comment that "Kelso just turned Marx upside down," that it is not necessarily amiss to turn a fellow upside down if that in fact straightens out his thinking.

Louis O. Kelso

#34. There is an unearthly, mystical element in Friedman's thought. The mere existence of a stock of money somehow promotes expenditure. But insofar as he offers an intelligible theory, it is made up of elements borrowed from Keynes.

Joan Robinson

#35. My father ran the gamut: a favorite of his was Josef Hofmann, but there was also Friedman, Rachmaninoff, Godowsky, Lhevinne, Moiseiwitsch, Paderewski, etc.

Marc-Andre Hamelin

#36. I may not be the most famous songwriter in the world, but you know a David Friedman song when you hear it. It took me a long time to appreciate that.

David Friedman

#37. What Mr. Friedman is suggesting is that if we don't drain the swamp where the rats are breeding, it won't really matter how many of these rats we kill; they will continue to leave the swamp and migrate to our cities in numbers that are legion.

Dick Couch

#38. I find having a column a very difficult form of journalism. I'm not a natural like Tom Friedman and Anna Quindlen.

Maureen Dowd

#39. Keynes vs Hayek? Friedman vs Krugman? Those are the wrong intellectual debates. Its you vs. Tony Hayward, BP CEO, You vs. Lloyd Blankfein, Goldman Sachs CEO. And you are losing ...

Barry Ritholtz

#40. My watch buzzed and told me I had ten minutes left to live. I turned my wrist to glance at it. Yep. This sucks.

J.M. Friedman. Succubus in Seattle (Kindle Locations 28-29).

J.R. Thorn

#41. Take Milton Friedman, he sits at his desk pontificating about such bunk as the monetary system being the answer to our problems. The monetary system is a legal contrivance. Property, not money, is real wealth. It's physical, not legal.

Louis O. Kelso

#42. You want to prove that Milton Friedman is a fascist? It's easy. Quote him.

Arthur Laffer

#43. Friedman stumbled in, late to the seminar as usual and reeking of cigar smoke and whiskey. He hadn't read the paper being presented, and halfway through he just gets up, walks up to the podium, socks the mother****er right in the face and takes a piss all over his lecture notes.

George Stigler

#44. Maxine wouldn't appreciate a visit from a succubus, especially one being tracked by a detective. But I didn't have a choice. I needed help. Even if that meant getting help from a nun.

J.M. Friedman. Succubus in Seattle (Kindle Locations 193-194).

J.R. Thorn

#45. There is something more severe than the problem with Thomas Friedman, which can be generalized to represent someone causing action while being completely unaccountable for his words.

Thomas Friedman

#46. When you grow up in the Soviet society under the communists you heard about the one man who is especially dangerous, especially crazy, and absolutely mad, and which would destroy all the human beings and the economies and so on, and this man was called Milton Friedman.

Mart Laar

#47. I jerked my phone out of my pocket and took a sharp left to follow the bold green line. I didn't fail to notice my walking icon had been replaced with a bicycle. Stupid Google. Doesn't have a "Succubus on Steroids" setting.

J.M. Friedman. Succubus in Seattle (Kindle Locations 1198-1199).

J.R. Thorn

#48. The fall of the Berlin Wall did more for the progress of freedom than all of the books written by myself or Friedrich Hayek or others.

Milton Friedman

#49. What we have in the Bush team is a faith-based administration. It launched a faith-based war in Iraq, on the basis of faith-based intelligence, with a faith-based plan for Iraqi reconstruction, supported by faith-based tax cuts to generate faith-based revenues.

Thomas Friedman

#50. I have a musical called Goodbye and Good Luck, based on a Grace Paley short story. I also have King Island Christmas, and there are 20 different productions of it this year.

David Friedman

#51. So long as large sums of money are involved - and they are bound to be if drugs are illegal - it is literally impossible to stop the traffic, or even to make a serious reduction in its scope.

Milton Friedman

#52. I support gay marriage. I believe they have a right to be as miserable as the rest of us.

Kinky Friedman

#53. I think that the Internet is going to be one of the major forces for reducing the role of government.

Milton Friedman

#54. When you lose your job, the unemployment rate isn't four percent, it's 100 percent.

Thomas Friedman

#55. It sometimes feels like I'm not doing anything.

David Friedman

#56. The pursuit of universal rights requires more than speeches. It requires power.

George Friedman

#57. I think in some ways it would make more sense to have as a poverty level a relative concept and say, the level of poverty is that level of income or that level of consumption below which 10 percent of the people now are.

Milton Friedman

#58. Law..is too important to be left to the lawyers.

Lawrence M. Friedman

#59. Maybe this is what travel gives you - or gives you back, in most cases - that childlike sense of wonder, and with it a kidstyle openness where you want to finger-paint with anyone and everyone who shows

Rachel Friedman

#60. Plot joined the expedition unwooed, as a necessary companion. It was not the scout. The scout was a certain mood. I followed that mood, and let the shape of the story flow from that.

Bonnie Friedman

#61. If you really want to engage in policy activity, don't make that your vocation. Make it your avocation. Get a job. Get a secure base of income. Otherwise, you're going to get corrupted and destroyed.

Milton Friedman

#62. I even went so far as to become a Southern Baptist for a while, until I realized that they didn't hold 'em under long enough.

Kinky Friedman

#63. The facts never speak for themselves. They have to be interpreted in terms of some understanding of where they come from and what the relation between them is.

Milton Friedman

#64. The country that owns green, that dominates that industry, is going to have the most energy security, national security, economic security, competitive companies, healthy population and, most of all, global respect.

Thomas Friedman

#65. The preservation of liberty, not the promotion of efficiency, is the primary justification for private property. Efficiency is a happy, though not accidental, by-product - and a most important by-product because liberty could not have survived if it had not also produced affluence.

Milton Friedman

#66. The Golden Straitjacket is the defining political-economic garment of globalization. [ ... ] The tighter you wear it, the more gold it produces.

Thomas Friedman

#67. Communication does not depend on syntax, or eloquence, or rhetoric, or articulation but on the emotional context in which the message is being heard. People can only hear you when they are moving toward you, and they are not likely to when your words are pursuing them.

Edwin H. Friedman

#68. There's no such thing as a free lunch.

Milton Friedman

#69. [U]nemployment is ... a side effect of the cure for inflation.

Milton Friedman

#70. All data leaves a trail. The search for data leaves a trail. The erasure of data leaves a trail. The absence of data, under the right circumstances, can leave the clearest trail of all.

C.S. Friedman

#71. The best thing about liver is how virtuous it makes you feel after you've eaten some.

Bruce Jay Friedman

#72. When there were financial difficulties they still managed to provide us with music and art lessons.

Jerome Isaac Friedman

#73. To the best of my knowledge, there has never been a monetary union, putting out a fiat currency, composed of independent states.

Milton Friedman

#74. Corruption is government intrusion into market efficiencies in the form of regulations.

Milton Friedman

#75. I've achieved many of my dreams, and I want to see that some others get a chance to, especially younger Texans.

Kinky Friedman

#76. I thought the line 'I am the daughter of the former governor of Alaska' was very funny. I think the word is 'sarcasm.' In my family we think laughing is good. My parents raised me to have a sense of humor and to live a normal life.

Andrea Fay Friedman

#77. The Federal Reserve the privately owned U.S. central bank definitely caused The Great Depression by contracting the amount of currency in circulation by one third from 1929 to 1933.

Milton Friedman

#78. The Internet moves us closer to "perfect information" on markets. Individuals and companies alike can buy and sell across borders and jurisdictions wherever they find the best match of supply and demand.

Milton Friedman

#79. It is interesting to note that Copernicus was German/Polish, Luther was German, and Gutenberg was German.

George Friedman

#80. If you're lookin' for a helpin' hand, try the one at the end of your arm.

Kinky Friedman

#81. Big ideas start as weird ideas.

Patri Friedman

#82. My major problem with the world is a problem of scarcity in the midst of plenty ... of people starving while there are unused resources ... people having skills which are not being used.

Milton Friedman

#83. Anger does not make history. Power does. And power may be supplemented by anger, but it derives from more fundamental realities; geography, demographics, technology, and culture.

George Friedman

#84. Silence was pleased.

Milton Friedman

#85. Thanks to economists, all of us, from the days of Adam Smith and before right down to the present, tariffs are perhaps one tenth of one percent lower than they otherwise would have been. ...
And because of our efforts, we have earned our salaries ten-thousand fold.

Milton Friedman

#86. Seventeen publishers rejected the manuscript, at which time we knew we had something pretty hot.

Kinky Friedman

#87. I don't have to work extra hard, but that's because there are a lot of women in my professional network and I have hired a lot of women as full-time writers and part-time columnists.

Ann Friedman

#88. Composition is definitely what I'm born to do, and it came last.

David Friedman

#89. The only corporate social responsibility a company has is to maximize its profits.

Milton Friedman

#90. I believe that Willy Nelson is the hillbilly Dalai Lama.

Kinky Friedman

#91. Socialism, in the traditional sense, meant government ownership and operation of the means of production. Outside of North Korea and a couple of other spots, no one in the world today would define socialism that way. That will never come back.

Milton Friedman

#92. Tomorrow could not get better if one failed to survive today.

C.S. Friedman

#93. The case against a fully independent central bank is strong indeed.

Milton Friedman

#94. In the music industry, we value large success. I realized that while I would like that, that it's not what my writing is about. And if I start making it about that, it becomes impure.

David Friedman

#95. The nineteenth-century liberal regarded an extension of freedom as the most effective way to promote welfare and equality; the twentieth-century liberal regards welfare and equality as either prerequisites of or alternatives to freedom.

Milton Friedman