Debt is a social and ideological construct, not a simple economic fact.

Money is kind of a base subject. Like water, food, air and housing, it affects everything yet for some reason the world of academics thinks it’s a subject below their social standing.

The climate crisis is both the easiest and the hardest issue we have ever faced. The easiest because we know what we must do. We must stop the emissions of greenhouse gases. The hardest because our current economics are still totally dependent on burning fossil fuels, and thereby destroying ecosystems in order to create everlasting economic growth.

If my businesses or my investments are not profitable, then I don’t eat. And I like to eat.

Worrying is like paying on a debt that may never come due.

Those have a short Lent who owe money to be paid at Easter.

The IRS! They’re like the Mafia, they can take anything they want!

A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative generally meant a man who wanted to conserve everything except his own reason for conserving anything.

I became a Communist by studying capitalist political economy, and when I had some understanding of that problem, it actually seemed to me so absurd, so irrational, so inhuman, that I simply began to elaborate on my own formulas for production and distribution.

Neither a borrower nor a lender be.

A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.

Obviously, I’m no fan of the radical left.

Money doesn’t talk, it swears.

There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.

Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction.

It is a way to take people’s wealth from them without having to openly raise taxes. Inflation is the most universal tax of all.

I’m not a conservative of any kind.

Well private money can take risks in a way that government money often isn’t willing to.

A specter is haunting Europe – the specter of communism.

I still think like a Marxist in many ways.

I’m opposed to fundamentalism in any form.

Debt is part of the human condition. Civilization is based on exchanges – on gifts, trades, loans – and the revenges and insults that come when they are not paid back.

Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.

The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.

‚Credit‘ is another word for trustworthiness.

As a precious metal, silver is also money.

It’s not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.

Money is a strange business. People who haven’t got it aim it strongly. People who have are full of troubles.

All the political angst and moral melodrama about getting ‚the rich‘ to pay ‚their fair share‘ is part of a big charade. This is not about economics, it is about politics.

The sinews of war are infinite money.

Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.

The secret to the movie business, or any business, is to get a good education in a subject besides film – whether it’s history, psychology, economics, or architecture – so you have something to make a movie about. All the skill in the world isn’t going to help you unless you have something to say.

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.

The rise in the price of gold is a sign that capitalism has stumbled.

A holding company is a thing where you hand an accomplice the goods while the policeman searches you.

I am not worried about the deficit. It is big enough to take care of itself.

The universities are available only to those who share my revolutionary beliefs.

The use of money is all the advantage there is in having it.

I’m looking for backing for an unauthorized auto-biography that I am writing. Hopefully, this will sell in such huge numbers that I will be able to sue myself for an extraordinary amount of money and finance the film version in which I will play everybody.

Money and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two things we have.

Capitalism knows only one color: that color is green; all else is necessarily subservient to it, hence, race, gender and ethnicity cannot be considered within it.

All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.

We’ve switched from a culture that was interested in manufacturing, economics, politics – trying to play a serious part in the world – to a culture that’s really entertainment-based.

No nation was ever ruined by trade.

The reason we should do a carbon tax is because it’s the right thing to do. It’s economics 101, elementary stuff.

A grown man should always carry cash, right? I don’t know who told me, but someone told me that a long time ago, and the biggest turnoff is when a guy doesn’t have cash on him.

Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.

Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.

Libertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment.

Bad debt is debt that makes you poorer. I count the mortgage on my home as bad debt, because I’m the one paying on it. Other forms of bad debt are car payments, credit card balances, or other consumer loans.

If the other fellow sells cheaper than you, it is called dumping. ‚Course, if you sell cheaper than him, that’s mass production.

For most of us, relationship with another is based on dependence, either economic or psychological. This dependence creates fear, breeds in us possessiveness, results in friction, suspicion, frustration.

Socialists tend to want to pay people more money to do less work, and capitalists tend to want to provide better products at better prices.

Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces.

Let me remind you that credit is the lifeblood of business, the lifeblood of prices and jobs.

This 90/10 rule holds true in almost anything financial. Take the game of golf, for example. Ten percent of the professional golfers make 90 percent of the money.

There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.

Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.

We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.

Concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the cycle.

It’s in the best interest of the radical left types – best psychological and strategic interest – to refuse to admit to the possibility that reasonable people can object to their ideological staff. Because if reasonable people objected, that would imply that their ideological stance is not reasonable.