Money creation | Quotes about the magic of money

"Money does not pay for anything, never has, never will. It is an economic axiom as old as the hills that goods and services can be paid for only with goods and services." Albert Jay Nock

"Every government intervention [in the marketplace] creates unintended consequences, which lead to calls for further government interventions." Ludwig von Mises

"With the socialization of the health care system through institutions such as Medicaid and Medicare and the regulation of the insurance industry (by restricting an insurer’s right of refusal: to exclude any individual risk as uninsurable, and discriminate freely, according to actuarial methods, between different group risks) a monstrous machinery of wealth and income redistribution at the expense of responsible individuals and low-risk groups in favor of irresponsible actors and high-risk groups has been put in motion." Hans-Hermann Hoppe

"I am a fashion designer. I'm not an environmentalist. When I get up in the morning, number one I'm a mother and a wife, and number two I design clothes. So the main thing I need to do is create, hopefully, exquisitely beautiful, desirable objects for my customer." Stella McCartney

"The consumption of animals - whether you're wearing them or eating them - is extraordinarily damaging to the planet. There are over a billion animals killed a year for food, half of which don't even get eaten. And there's over 50 million animals killed just for fashion." Stella McCartney

"Language makes infinite use of finite media." Wilhelm von Humboldt

"[A]ny notion of the serious life of leisure, as well as men's taste and capacity to live it, had disappeared. Leisure became entertainment." Allan Bloom

"I began to realize that poverty was really more of a choice than anything else and that I could change that. And it just really depended on how hard I wanted to work." Ben Carson

"An elephant is vastly more efficient, metabolically, than a mouse. It's the same for a megacity as opposed to a village. But an elephant can break a leg very easily, whereas you can toss a mouse out of a window and it'll be fine. Size makes you fragile." Nassim Nicholas Taleb

"It is providential that the youth or man of inventive mind is not 'blessed' with a million dollars" Nikola Tesla

"Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think." Ayn Rand

"I am the greatest tennis player. The other players are like coins in my pocket that I give to a homeless man." Novak Djokovic

"The best way to help the poor is to slash taxes and allow savings, investment, and creation of jobs to proceed unhampered." Murray Rothbard

"All government operation is wasteful, inefficient, and serves the bureaucrat rather than the consumer." Murray Rothbard