Matthew

“The process by which money is created is so simple that the mind is repelled.”
― John Kenneth Galbraith, Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went

“Do I advise you to love thy neighbor? I suggest rather to escape from thy neighbor and to love those who are the farthest away from you. Higher than the love for thy neighbor is the love for the man who is distant and has still to come.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Our fundamental economic beliefs, which we have elevated from a conviction based on observation to an unquestioned truism, is that the free market is the best of all economic systems—the freer the better. Our generation has seen the decisive victory of free-market principles over planned economies. So we stick with this belief, largely oblivious to emerging evidence that while free markets beat planned economies, there may be room for a modification that is even better.”
― Andy Grove

“There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that thought.”
― Pierre Bayle