The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instabilit… - Milton Friedman

The capital resources of the nation are not increased by using the tax collector rather than the stock market to mobilize them.

We speak loosely of the “corporation’s income” or of “business” having an income. That is figurative language. The corporation is an intermediary between its owners — the stockholders — and the resources other than the stockholders’ capital, the services of which it purchases. Only people have incomes and they derive them through the market from the resources they own,

The key insight of Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations is misleadingly simple: if an exchange between two parties is voluntary, it will not take place unless both believe they will benefit from it. Most economic fallacies derive from the neglect of this simple insight, from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another.