Originál: (en) With respect to teachers' salaries, the major problem is not that they are too low on the average – they may well be too high on the average – but they are too uniform and rigid. Poor teachers are grossly overpaid and good teachers grossly underpaid. Salary schedules tend to be uniform and determined far more by seniority, degrees recieved, and teaching certificates acquired than by merit.
Zdroj: [Friedman, Milton, Capitalism and Freedom, University of Chicago Press, 2009, 95]
Milton Friedman nejznámější citáty
Originál: (en) There are four ways in which you can spend money. You can spend your own money on yourself. When you do that, why then you really watch out what you’re doing, and you try to get the most for your money. Then you can spend your own money on somebody else. For example, I buy a birthday present for someone. Well, then I’m not so careful about the content of the present, but I’m very careful about the cost. Then, I can spend somebody else’s money on myself. And if I spend somebody else’s money on myself, then I’m sure going to have a good lunch! Finally, I can spend somebody else’s money on somebody else. And if I spend somebody else’s money on somebody else, I’m not concerned about how much it is, and I’m not concerned about what I get. And that’s government.
Zdroj: [Asman, David, Minding Other People's Business, FoxNews.com, 2014-06-29, 2007-02-03, http://www.foxnews.com/story/2007/02/03/minding-other-people-business/]
Originál: (en) History suggests only that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition.
Zdroj: [Friedman, Milton, Capitalism and Freedom, University of Chicago Press, 2009, 10]
Milton Friedman citáty a výroky
Originál: (en) I think the government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem and very often makes the problem worse.
Zdroj: [Friedman, Milton, An Economist's Protest, Second Edition, 1975, 6]
Originál: (en) Economics as a positive science is a body of tentatively accepted generalizations about economic phenomena that can be used to predict the consequences of changes in circumstances.
Zdroj: [Friedman, Milton, The Methodology of Positive Economics, Univ. of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1966, https://web.archive.org/web/20081118134352/http://mikael.cozic.free.fr/friedman53%28extraits%29.pdf, 39]
Milton Friedman: Citáty anglicky
America's Drug Forum interview (1991)
Zdroj: Money Mischief (1992), Ch. 2 The Mystery of Money
“Make politics an avocation, not a vocation.”
As quoted in “Milton Friedman: A Tribute” https://original.antiwar.com/henderson/2006/11/20/milton-friedman-a-tribute/, David R. Henderson, antiwar.com, (Nov. 20, 2006), told to Henderson (May, 1970)
From Who protects the consumer?, an episode of the PBS Free to Choose television series (1980, vol. 7 transcript) http://www.freetochoosemedia.org/freetochoose/detail_ftc1980_transcript.php?page=7
Zdroj: (1962), Ch. 1 The Relation Between Economic Freedom and Political Freedom, p. 12
Zdroj: (1962), Ch. 2 The Role of Government in a Free Society, p. 24
Milton Friedman, "Comments on the Critics", Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 80, No. 5 (Sep. - Oct., 1972)
Speaking at a meeting of the American Economic Association, as quoted by Walter Block in "Milton Friedman RIP" in Mises Daily (16 November 2006) http://mises.org/story/2393
"The Great Contraction, 1929-1933" (1963), with Anna J. Schwartz
A Monetary History of the United States (1963)
That was the last that we heard from the general about mercenaries.
Two Lucky People: Memoirs, Chicago: University of Chicago Press (1998) p. 380.
As quoted in The Money Masters (1995)
“The business of business is business.”
Widely attributed to Friedman, and sometimes cited as being in his work Capitalism and Freedom (1962) this is also attributed to Alfred P. Sloan, sometimes with citation of a statement of 1964, but sometimes with attestations to his use of it as a motto as early as 1923.
Disputed
“Interview with Milton Friedman”, Playboy magazine (Feb. 1973)
"The Methodology of Positive Economics" (1953)
Zdroj: (1962), Ch. 2 The Role of Government in a Free Society, p. 27
Zdroj: (1962), Ch. 3 The Control of Money, p. 39
“There's a smokestack on the back of every government program.”
Interview (10 February 1999) in the video production Take It To The Limits: Milton Friedman on Libertarianism http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cl_qwo2VIlU.
Zdroj: (1962), Ch. 2 The Role of Government in a Free Society, p. 33
From Created Equal, an episode of the PBS Free to Choose television series (1980, vol. 5 transcript) http://www.freetochoosemedia.org/broadcasts/freetochoose/detail_ftc1980_transcript.php?page=5.
Zdroj: (1962), Ch. 12 The Alleviation of Poverty, 2002 edition, p. 194
Zdroj: (1962), Ch. 1 The Relation Between Economic Freedom and Political Freedom, pp. 12-13
Zdroj: (1962), Ch. 2 The Role of Government in a Free Society, p. 34
A 1973 Interview with Milton Friedman – Playboy Magazine
“Interview with Milton Friedman”, Playboy magazine (Feb. 1973)
A Theory of the Consumption Function (1957)
A 1973 Interview with Milton Friedman – Playboy Magazine
“Interview with Milton Friedman”, Playboy magazine (Feb. 1973)
Milton Friedman - Big Business, Big Government http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_T0WF-uCWg
Zdroj: (1962), Ch. 1 The Relation Between Economic Freedom and Political Freedom, p. 12
From The Tyranny of Control, an episode of the PBS Free to Choose television series (1980, vol. 2 transcript) http://www.freetochoosemedia.org/freetochoose/detail_ftc1980_transcript.php?page=2
"Why Government Is the Problem" (February 1, 1993), p. 19
Zdroj: An Economist's Protest: Columns in Political Economy (1966), p. 163