He moves fastest who moves alone. by Milton Friedman | We Heart Quotes

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He moves fastest who moves alone.

- Milton Friedman

Other quotes by Milton Friedman

Fact

The most important single central fact about a free market is that no exchange takes place unless both parties benefit.

- Milton Friedman

Gain

Most economic fallacies derive from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another.

- Milton Friedman

Capitalism Will

The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the least harm, capitalism is that kind of a system.

- Milton Friedman

Work Government

Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government.

- Milton Friedman

People

And what does reward virtue? You think the communist commissar rewards virtue? You think a Hitler rewards virtue? You think, excuse me, if you'll pardon me, American presidents reward virtue? Do they choose their appointees on the basis of the virtue of the people appointed or on the basis of their political clout?

- Milton Friedman

Government

The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy.

- Milton Friedman

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