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
“I have no right to coerce someone else, because I cannot be sure that I'm right and he is wrong.”
"Say 'No' to Intolerance", Liberty magazine, vol. 4, no. 6, (July 1991) pp. 17-20.
Lecture "The Suicidal Impulse of the Business Community" (1983); cited in Filters Against Folly (1985) by Garrett Hardin
"An Open Letter to Bill Bennett" in The Wall Street Journal (7 September 1989)
Interview "Milton Friedman Responds" in Chemtech (February 1974) p. 72.
Zdroj: Free to Choose (1980), Ch. 1 "The Power of the Market", p. 14
Article "We Have Socialism, Q.E.D." http://www.sangam.org/taraki/articles/2006/11-25_Friedman_MGR.php?uid=2075 in The New York Times (31 December 1989)
Interview with Parker in Randall E. Parker(ed.), Reflection on the Great Depression (2002)
“There's no such thing as a free lunch.”
Also often misattributed to Robert A. Heinlein because both helped popularize the expression – Friedman with a book with that title. The phrase actually dates to at least the 1930s.
Misattributed
“The price system transmits only the important information and only to the people who need to know.”
Zdroj: Free to Choose (1980), Ch. 1 "The Power of the Market", 15
Zdroj: Capitalism and Freedom (1962), Ch. 12 The Alleviation of Poverty
Zdroj: Money Mischief (1992), Ch. 2 The Mystery of Money
Zdroj: (1962), Ch. 2 The Role of Government in a Free Society, p. 25
As quoted in Opinion Journal (22 July 2006) http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110008690
Interview with Brian Lamb, In Depth Book TV (2000)
As quoted in "Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy: A Symposium" https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/capitalism-socialism-and-democracy/ (1 April 1978), edited by William Barrett, Commentary
from an interview with Phil Donahue (1979): partial transcript http://www.slobodaiprosperitet.tv/en/node/847 from SiP TV ; or find link to full interview in the External links Section
Zdroj: Capitalism and Freedom (1962), Ch. 1 The Relation Between Economic Freedom and Political Freedom, p. 12
“If a tax cut increases government revenues, you haven't cut taxes enough.”
As quoted in "Milton Friedman's Last Lunch" at Forbes.com (11 December 2006)
“Corruption is government intrusion into market efficiencies in the form of regulations.”
Frequently misattributed to Milton Friedman based on a monologue from the 2005 movie Syriana
Misattributed
“To paraphrase Clemenceau, money is much too serious a matter to be left to the Central Bankers.”
Zdroj: (1962), Ch. 3 The Control of Money, p. 50-51
Zdroj: Free to Choose (1980), Ch. 10 “The Tide Is Turning”, p. 314
Zdroj: Free to Choose (1980), Ch. 8 "Who Protects the Workers?", p. 246
Zdroj: Free to Choose (1980), Ch. 6 “What’s Wrong with Our Schools”, p. 170
Zdroj: Free to Choose (1980), Ch. 2 “The Tyranny of Controls”, pp. 40-41
Zdroj: Free to Choose (1980), Ch. 1 “The Power of the Market”, p. 24
“The combination of economic and political power in the same hands is a sure recipe for tyranny.”
“Introduction”, p. 3
Free to Choose (1980)
“Interview with Milton Friedman”, Playboy magazine (Feb. 1973)