Money creation | Quotes about the magic of money

"I have never understood why it is "greed" to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else's money." Thomas Sowell

"Through the inevitable mismanagement of resources and goods at the disposal of the state, all forms of collectivism lead eventually to tyranny." Friedrich August von Hayek

"The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life." Henry Ford

"A wise man should have money in his head but not in his heart" Jonathan Swift

"To call the miserable remnants of the free market and free society, which the statism of the modern welfare dictatorship and the creeping socialism of the welfare state have left behind as a kind of market-economic carcass, "capitalism" and to attribute everything that killed it as its own excesses can only appear as an intellectual capacity in a country whose intellectual soil is poisoned by centuries of practiced state mysticism." Roland Baader

"It may be too late to avert the financial disaster that lies ahead of us, but we must at least prevent the road to financial ruin from also becoming a road to servitude. Let's talk our heads off and write our fingers to the bone, let's make ourselves outsiders and ridiculed figures if necessary, but let's fight to ensure that the basis of people's freedom, the market economy, is not presented to them as the alleged culprit and executed by the henchmen of power under the false pretext. Otherwise, it is we ourselves, our happiness and prosperity and freedom, who die with the market. Let us free ourselves from the true evil, from the fuel of presumptuous domination and destructive lies: from state counterfeit money." Roland Baader

"If the government was replaced by the mafia we'd probably have half as much corruption and twice as much fun." Klaus Kinski

"When you pay the representatives of the people, you do not arouse in them an interest in performing their functions conscientiously; rather, you interest them only in continuing to secure for themselves the exercise of those functions." Benjamin Constant

"We live in a system in which one must either be a wheel or get crushed by the wheels." Friedrich Nietzsche

"The most beautiful thing for me about Formula E is the great sound of the diesel generators that are used to charge the batteries of the racing cars!" Ulrich Baretzky

"We are burning out the few children we still have in a deficient education and care system so that parents can work a lot for little money, just to maintain an economic system that is doomed to fail." Gerald Hüther

"When Elon Musk came to the White House asking me for help on all of his many subsidized projects, whether it’s electric cars that don’t drive long enough, driverless cars that crash, or rocketships to nowhere, without which subsidies he’d be worthless, and telling me how he was a big Trump fan and Republican, I could have said, “drop to your knees and beg,” and he would have done it…" Donald Trump

"The picture of the economic revolution as the final step to freedom was false as soon as I asked myself that question. For, in actual fact, The State, The Government, cannot exist. They are abstract concepts, useful enough in their place, as the theory of minus numbers is useful in mathematics. In actual living experience, however, it is impossible to subtract anything from nothing; when a purse is empty, it is empty, it cannot contain a minus ten dollars. On this same plane of actuality, no State, no Government, exists. What does in fact exist is a man, or a few men, in power over many men." Rose Wilder Lane

"Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it." Thomas Sowell