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

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.

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.

Every time the Fed implements ‚quantitative easing,‘ a.k.a. printing more money, two things go up: taxes and inflation. When taxes and inflation go up, more jobs are lost.

My background educationally is physics and economics, and I grew up in sort of an engineering environment – my father is an electromechanical engineer. And so there were lots of engineery things around me.

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

I had to abandon free market principles in order to save the free market system.

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

I spent my life studying communism and Soviet systems.

Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt. It’s a trap for the rest of your life because the laws are designed so that you can’t get out of it. If a business, say, gets in too much debt, it can declare bankruptcy, but individuals can almost never be relieved of student debt through bankruptcy.

It is just as important that business keep out of government as that government keep out of business.

For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.

What do you think a stimulus is? It’s spending – that’s the whole point! Seriously.

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

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.

As you know, low demand and high supply means a drop in value of anything, including the dollar.

I have something in common with Nazis in that I am opposed to the radical Left. And when you oppose the radical Left, you end up being a part of a much larger group that includes Nazis in 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.

Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It’s to see my dividends coming in.

It’s time to stop thinking of the Republican Party as an exclusive club where your ideological card is checked at the door, and start thinking about how we can attract more solution-based leaders like Nathan Fletcher and Anthony Adams.

Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.

Religion is the opium of the masses.

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.

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

I’ve studied authoritarianism for a very long time – for 40 years – and they’re started by people’s attempts to control the ideological and linguistic territory.

As a precious metal, silver is also money.

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

You have your ideology and I have mine.

You need to be in the position where it is the cost of the fuel that actually matters and not the cost of building the rocket in the first place.

Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway.

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

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

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

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

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.

I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system.

There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.

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.

Money and investing can be complex, confusing, and often boring subjects.

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

The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.

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.

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.

Money doesn’t talk, it swears.

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.

A specter is haunting Europe – the specter of communism.

No nation was ever ruined by trade.

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

Communism to me is one-third practice and two-thirds explanation.

I never accepted Communist dogma or theory.

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

Some of our earliest writing, in cuneiform, was about who owes what.

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.

Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction.

Remember that all financial markets are filled with good but not necessarily innocent people looking after their own self-interests before they look after yours.

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

Never spend your money before you have earned it.

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.

Sorry, I’m still a dialectical materialist.

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

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