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

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

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

It shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much.

The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.

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

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

Warren Buffett is famous for talking about the ‚intrinsic value‘ of stocks. But while many people parrot this phrase, few know what it really means.

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

Creditors have better memories than debtors.

For a privileged minority, Western democracy provides the leisure, the facilities, and the training to seek the truth lying hidden behind the veil of distortion and misrepresentation, ideology and class interest, through which the events of current history are presented to us.

I’m a conservative, but I’m not a nut about it.

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.

I never accepted Communist dogma or theory.

Rich countries can afford to overpay for things.

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.

Don’t hold against me that I don’t own – that I don’t own a single stock or bond. Don’t hold it – I have no savings accounts.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

A person who can’t pay gets another person who can’t pay to guarantee that he can pay. Like a person with two wooden legs getting another person with two wooden legs to guarantee that he has got two natural legs. It don’t make either of them able to do a walking-match.

As a tactic, violence is absurd. No one can compete with the Government in violence, and the resort to violence, which will surely fail, will simply frighten and alienate some who can be reached, and will further encourage the ideologists and administrators of forceful repression.

Never spend your money before you have earned it.

Economic medicine that was previously meted out by the cupful has recently been dispensed by the barrel. These once unthinkable dosages will almost certainly bring on unwelcome after-effects. Their precise nature is anyone’s guess, though one likely consequence is an onslaught of inflation.

To me, ideology is corrupt; it’s a parasite on religious structures. To be an ideologue is to have all of the terrible things that are associated with religious certainty and none of the utility. If you’re an ideologue, you believe everything that you think. If you’re religious, there’s a mystery left there.

At my lowest point, I was nearly $700,000 in debt.

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

I used to have insecurity about my finances, then I announced that I had debt, and now I don’t have any insecurities.

Economists treat economics as if it is a pure science divorced from the facts of life. The result of this false accountancy is a willful confusion under cover of which industry wreaks its havoc scot-free and ignores the environmental cost.

People do not understand what a great revenue economy is.

If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.

The nuclear approach I’m involved in is called a traveling-wave reactor, which uses waste uranium for fuel. There’s a lot of things that have to go right for that dream to come true – many decades of building demo plants, proving the economics are right. But if it does, you could have cheaper energy with no CO2 emissions.

If you spend your life competing with business men, what do you have? A bank account and ulcers!

I still think like a Marxist in many ways.

For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.

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.

A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.

A thing is worth what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it.

The true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.

The capitalist system is about taking from the Earth and from the other great commodity, labour. What’s happening with this system is that the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer, and the only way out of it is supposed to be growth. But growth is debt. It’s going to make the situation worse.

I just think people should invest in the world. Don’t invest in fashion, but invest in the world.

Any time an investment company has to spend heavily on advertising, it’s probably a bad business in which to invest.

Percentage margins don’t matter. What matters always is dollar margins: the actual dollar amount. Companies are valued not on their percentage margins, but on how many dollars they actually make, and a multiple of that.

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

‚Credit‘ is another word for trustworthiness.

Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets.

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’m conservative, but I’m not a nut about it.

You have your ideology and I have mine.

Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress.

No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology.

The Islamists will try to spoil everything for everyone.

Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.

Now financial liberalization is just a catastrophe waiting to happen, and there are very well understood reasons for that.

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.

I believe that economics is based on scarcity of markets. And it’s possible to monetize your art without compromising the integrity of it for commerce.

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.

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

The real minimum wage is zero.

I should tie myself to no particular system of society other than of socialism.

Religion is the opium of the masses.

Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic.