George Reisman famous quotes

04-29-2025

Under capitalism each individual engages in economic planning.
-- George Reisman

#Planning #Finance #Economic
The truth is that economic competition is the very opposite of competition in the animal kingdom. It is not a competition in the grabbing off of scarce nature-given supplies, as it is in the animal kingdom. Rather, it is a competition in the positive creation of new and additional wealth.
-- George Reisman

#Animal #Opposites #Competition
The average American of today is intellectually so far removed from his forbears that instead of regarding government with apprehension, he is more likely to regard it as a virtual parent, concerned only with protecting and helping him
-- George Reisman

#Government #Average #Parent
Today, in the Twenty-First Century, an age of jet aircraft, personal computers, wireless telecommunications, laser surgery, and incipient space travel, the mentality with which many presumably educated, intelligent people approach matters of economics and business is, however astonishing it may seem, still that of the Dark Ages.
-- George Reisman

#Dark #Intelligent #Space
The slaves of socialism are slaves, but they are no one's property and therefore no one's loss.
-- George Reisman

#Loss #Socialism #Slave
Global warming is not a threat. But environmentalism's response to it is....Even if global warming is a fact, the free citizens of an industrial civilization will have no great difficulty in coping with it-that is, of course, if their ability to use energy and to produce is not crippled by the environmental movement and by government controls otherwise inspired.
-- George Reisman

#Civilization #Government #Environmental
Whoever claims that economic competition represents survival of the fittest in the sense of the law of the jungle, provides the clearest possible evidence of his lack of knowledge of economics.
-- George Reisman

#Law #Competition #Survival
Under communism (socialism), there is no incentive to supply people with anything they need or want, including safety.
-- George Reisman

#People #Safety #Needs
The free market exists to promote prosperity and human life, and that is what it has accomplished, splendidly, with breathtaking brilliance. In the industrialized world, the average person today enjoys a standard of living superior to that of kings and emperors of the past. The whole world's population is capable of enjoying the same marvelous results, if it adopts economic freedom.
-- George Reisman

#Kings #Past #Average

You're my all-in Della. I'll throw it all away for you. I just want you. I'm all in, baby. This life with you, I'm planning on us.
When a planner speaks of implementing goals rationally, he implies that it is possible to demonstrate logically and experimentally the relationship between the proposed means and the ends they are intended to further.
Quit planning your dream and start living it.
I spend 60 percent of my time planning, 60 percent with people, and all other duties are completed with whatever time is left
From Day 1 I wasnt planning to run until I am very old.
Nora: What are you planning? Patch: I wouldn't call this planning. I'd call this throwing a Hail Mary with seconds left on the clock.
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.
I know what I don't know. To this day, I don't know technology, and I don't know finance or accounting.
I don't know about technology and I don't know about finance and accounting.
A postsecondary education is the ticket to economic success in America.

George Reisman famous quotes

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