Activity and creativity almost always flow to the least regulated arena. George Gilder More Quotes by George Gilder More Quotes From George Gilder The crucial role of the rich in a capitalist economy is... to invest; to provide unencumbered and unbureaucratized cash. George Gilder capitalist-economy cash roles A policy of subsidizing failures will end in an economy strewn with capital-guzzling industries long past their time of profitability - old companies that cannot create jobs themselves, but can stand in the way of job creation. George Gilder jobs long past The envy of excellence leads to perdition; the love of it leads to the light. George Gilder envy excellence light The rates of taxation climb and the levels of capital decline, until the only remaining wealth beyond the reach of the regime is the very protein of human flesh, and that too is finally taxed, bound, and gagged, and brought to the colossal temple of the state - a final sacrifice of carnal revenue to feed the declining elite. George Gilder taxation sacrifice levels On every continent and in every epoch the peoples who have excelled in creating wealth have been the victims of some of society's greatest brutalities. George Gilder wealth creating brutality Entrepreneurial creation is the generation, de novo, of novelty and surprise- freedom of choice originating in the world of ideas, and imagination beyond all concern with chemicals. The contrary view- that all ideas are determined by material relationships- is the materialist superstition. George Gilder imagination views ideas Liberals force lower middle-class families, who love their children, to dispatch them to ghetto schools dominated by gangs of fatherless boys bearing knives. George Gilder ghetto children school The differences between the sexes are the single most important fact of human society. George Gilder differences important sex Most of America's leading entrepreneurs are bound to the masts of their fortunes. They are allowed to keep their wealth only as long as they invest it in others. In a real sense, they can keep only what they give away. It has been given to others in the form of investments. It is embodied in a vast web of enterprises that retains its worth only through constant work and sacrifice. Capitalism is a system that begins not with taking but with giving to others. George Gilder sacrifice real america Nothing is more deadly to achievement than the belief that effort will not be rewarded, that the world is a bleak and discriminatory place in which only the predatory and the specially preferred can get ahead. George Gilder effort achievement world This is what sexual liberation chiefly accomplishes-it liberates young women to pursue married men. George Gilder married young men Television is not vulgar because people are vulgar; it is vulgar because people are similar in their prurient interests and sharply differentiated in their civilized concerns. George Gilder vulgar people television 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. George Gilder evil doe culture Giving is the vital impulse and moral center of capitalism. George Gilder generosity moral giving [Successful] projects that entrepreneurs initiated and carried through had one essential quality. All had been thoroughly contemplated by the regnant experts and dominant companies, with their large research staffs and financial resources, and had been judged too difficult, untimely, risky, expensive and unprofitable. George Gilder entrepreneur quality successful All small returns are noise. To transcend the noise and the risk, seek outsized returns from technological paradigms. George Gilder return risk noise History tells us that the threat to prosperity is not debt but socialism. George Gilder debt socialism prosperity In order to understand the movement of prices, you need not an oscilloscope to measure the entire market and reduce it to noise, but a microscope to investigate the creative process behind every company and its price. George Gilder creative order needs In the history of enterprise, most of the protagonists of major new products and companies began their education George Gilder protagonists company enterprise The most important feature of an information economy, in which information is defined as surprise, is the overthrow, not the attainment, of equilibrium. The science that we have come to know as information theory establishes the supremacy of the entrepreneur because it appreciates the powerful connection between destruction and what Schumpeter described as "creative destruction," between chaos and creativity. George Gilder creativity appreciate powerful
