Milton Friedman Quotes

Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.

Some people are motivated by money - I'm not one of them.

The feeling of being valuable - 'I am a valuable person'- is essential to mental health and is a cornerstone of self-discipline.

Too many people hold a very narrow view of what motivates us. They believe that the only way to get us moving is with the jab of a stick or the promise of a carrot. But if you look at over 50 years of research on motivation, or simply scrutinize your own behavior, it's pretty clear human beings are more complicated than that.

Material interests are not the only guiding light.

I don't wanna work with people who only want to make money.

You're playing for yourself. And if you're not playing for yourself, you're an entertainer, doing it for the crowd.

I'm not motivated by money and I never really have been.

I believe you're either intrinsically motivated or you're not.

Fame of self: Which matters more? Self or wealth: Which is more precious? Gain or loss: Which is more painful?

If the reason you’re taking on a mission is for the money you’ll make, I believe you’ll fail.

The key to motivation is motive.

One of the things we know is that you cannot motivate other people, but you can remove the obstacles that stop them from motivating themselves. All motivation is self-motivation.

The only long-term motivation is self motivation. So hire people who are self motivated and get out of their way.

Logotherapy . . . considers man as a being whose main concern consists in fulfilling a meaning and in actualizing values, rather than in the mere gratification and satisfaction of drives and instincts.

My whole theory for the improvement of society is based on a belief in the discipline and the education of the individual to self-control and right doing, for the sake of right doing. I have never seen fundamental improvements imposed from the top by ordinances and laws.

... the place we assign to pornography depends on the goals we set for our own consciousness, our own experience.

All motivation is self-motivation. Your family, your boss, or your co-workers can try to get your engine going, but until you decide what to accomplish, nothing will happen.

There is a fundamental moral difference between a man who sees his self-interest in production and a man who sees it in robbery. The evil of a robber does not lie in the fact that he pursues his own interests, but in what he regards as to his own interest; not in the fact that he pursues his values, but in what he chose to value; not in the fact that he wants to live, but in the fact that he wants to live on a subhuman level.

What makes you tick? Why do you care about the things you care about?

Organize one's values in the order of their worth

What people value in their books—and thus what they count as literature—really tells you more about them than it does about the book.

Everything turns out to be valuable that one does for one’s self without thought of profit.

The ultimate goal of discipline is to teach self discipline.

I have not said your values are wrong. But neither are they right. They are simply judgments. Assessments. Decisions. For the most part, they are decisions made not by you, but by someone else. Your parents, perhaps. Your religion. Your teachers, historians, politicians.