George Gilder Quotes

The source and root of all monetary evil [is] the government monopoly on the issue and control of money. - Friedrich Hayek

All small returns are noise. To transcend the noise and the risk, seek outsized returns from technological paradigms.

Giving is the vital impulse and moral center of capitalism.

Unlike an inexorable, Newtonian "great machine", the economy is not a closed system.

An economy is a "noosphere" (a mind-based system), and it can revive as quickly as minds and policies can change.

Quality is abundant. Time is the new scarcity.

The fact is there hasn't been a thrilling new erogenous zone discovered since de Sade.

Real poverty is less a state of income than a state of mind.

Much of the market is mindlessly indexed. That means it is all beta. The knowledge is leaching away in the surf of noise and rapid trading.

The envy of excellence leads to perdition; the love of it leads to the light.

The first priority of any serious program against poverty is to strengthen the male role in poor families.

In a world of dumb terminals and telephones, networks had to be smart. But in a world of smart terminals, networks have to be dumb.

Devoid of the outside influences of capital and technology, the source of bitcoin value becomes the pure irreversible passage of time. The

Capitalism begins with giving.

An economics of systems only-an economics of markets but not of men-is fatally flawed.

Intelligent design itself does not have any content.

Wealth usually comes from doing what other people find insufferably boring.

To the Austrian economics of subjectivity, time provides an objective foundation.

History tells us that the threat to prosperity is not debt but socialism.

What makes capitalism succeed is not chiefly its structure of incentives but its use of knowledge and experience.

The force driving the Israelis decisively out of their socialist past into the modern world of finance was the ingenuity of Netanyahu.

The most precious resource in the world economy is human genius.

Entrepreneurship is the launching of surprises.

In embracing change, entrepreneurs ensure social and economic stability.

Bandwidth grows at least three times faster than computer power.

The differences between the sexes are the single most important fact of human society.

Activity and creativity almost always flow to the least regulated arena.

A day doesn't pass that I'm not surprised.

If government could create jobs and raise children, socialism would have worked.

Today, on a per capita basis, Israel far leads the world in research and technological creativity.

The belief that all wealth comes from stealing is popular in prisons and at Harvard.

The prevailing theory of capitalism suffers from one central and disabling flaw, a profound distrust and incomprehension of capitalism.

All progress comes from the creative minority.

The crucial role of the rich in a capitalist economy is ... to invest; to provide unencumbered and unbureaucratized cash.

This is what sexual liberation chiefly accomplishes - it liberates young women to pursue married men.

Hatred of producers of wealth still flourishes and has become, in fact, the racism of the intelligentsia.

A culture that does not aspire to the divine becomes obsessed with the fascination of evil, reveling in the frivolous, the depraved, and the bestial.