Milton Friedman

United States
31 Jul 1912 // 16 Nov 2006
Economist

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Perfect competition is a theoretical concept like the Euclidean line, which has no width and no depth. Just as we've never seen that line there has never been truly free enterprise.
What kind of society isn't structured on greed?
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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