James M. Buchanan Quotes

If I had to study and work hard, it would have to have the reward of a lot of cash.

You know, capital isn't patriotic. Capital goes to where it needs to go to get a return.

OK, I know this is going to disgust you, Michael, but a lot of people are in this business to make money.

You know, in a business, you have to operate on the basis of voluntary investment by individuals in a cause. With government, there is no voluntary effort to invest capital. It's just taken and invested. And the same accountability is not at play. The same natural forces in the economy are not at play.

I can make it very clear: I get paid if we make good investments. And if we don't, I don't get paid. I have no incentive to sell our companies to Google; the entrepreneurs get to decide that. We are minority shareholders.

The only reason to do business is to make money; that's the only reason for doing business.

A person is born with a liking for profit.

The moguls are driven by their respective desires for profit - period.

It's a business. If I could make more money down in the zinc mines I'd be mining zinc.

If you only do it for money, that's only what you get.

Because obviously the whole purpose of putting records out is purely and simply to make money.

We need to leave to the market and society what they can do well.

The source of wealth is from individuals with little or no history of interest in the game, who have happened upon football as a means of serving some hidden agenda.

There's always more money to be made.

I am a capitalist and I believe in making a profit.

It is interest alone which does it, and it is interest alone which can be trusted.

Free enterprise picks investments successfully by running millions of experiments, and the survival of a product depends on its producing more value per dollar of cost than other products do. Competition ruthlessly prunes products that fail to meet this threshold. The public sector works in the opposite way; it undertakes large investment with virtually no competition.

We're not making records for the fun of it; we're in it to make money.

Privatization is more efficient and effective in some cases, but not in intelligence.

I don't tour to make money: I do it because I love it. When I'm putting a tour together, I'm not sitting with number-crunchers, having them tell me I can't do this or that.

I'm an introspective guy when there's money in it.

The biggest difference between the private sector and public sector is in the private sector, there's a sense of urgency because you have customers and you have competitors. Whereas in government, one of your major objectives is to not make any really big mistakes.

Many of humanity's most intractable challenges will only be solved through market-driven innovation.

There's money to be made, and I want mine.

The basic thing is, people want to get paid, so they'll say the things that get them paid, in entertainment or politics.