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The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.

The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.

The economy is a very sensitive organism.

The European model is, first, a social and economic system founded on the role of the market, for no computer in the world can process information better than the market.

The job of the Central Bank is to worry.

The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor.

The only way that we can reduce our financial dependence on the inflow of funds from the rest of the world is to reduce our trade deficit.

The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.

The price of every thing rises and falls from time to time and place to place; and with every such change the purchasing power of money changes so far as that thing goes.

The problem of how we finance the welfare state should not obscure a separate issue: if each person thinks he has an inalienable right to welfare, no matter what happens to the world, that's not equity, it's just creating a society where you can't ask anything of people.

The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.

The rate of interest acts as a link between income-value and capital-value.

The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.

The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.

There can be no rise in the value of labour without a fall of profits.

Thirteen thousand dollars a year is not enough to raise a family. That's not enough to pay your bills and save for their future. That's barely enough to provide for even the most basic needs.

Thirty to 40 years ago, most financial decisions were fairly simple.

This desire for equity must not lead to an excess of welfare, where nobody is responsible for anything.

To beat the market you'll have to invest serious bucks to dig up information no one else has yet.

Today, if you look at financial systems around the globe, more than half the population of the world - out of six billion people, more than three billion - do not qualify to take out a loan from a bank. This is a shame.