Friedrich Hayek Quotes

Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent.

There's a lot of freedom in having nothing. You don't have responsibility. You have nobody to answer to. But I'd rather deal without the poverty.

Money gives you the power to do whatever you want to do. I like the idea of being in complete control of my life.

Today it is only the rich who are "free". They employ their time wisely or foolishly as they choose. They ask no one's permission and seek no one's advice whether they shall squander their substance in riotous living or devote themselves to good works. What they do with their time is their own affair. In the future such freedom would be open to everybody.

I started on a very high note and I was alwasy able to choose. I want to be able to do that until my last breath. And to do that, you have to have money.

I'm really lucky because I found myself in a position where I can do whatever I want to do. I can make records, produce records, make movies, or I can do nothing. I'm not a slave to the dollar.

Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases?

I think it is important to remind people of the extent of our free will.

For the rich, it's not about getting more stuff. It's about having the freedom to make almost any decision you want.

The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose.

Money's the cheapest thing. Liberty and freedom is the most expensive.

I get to do what I want. And I get paid millions of dollars to do it.

Freedom is the power to choose our own chains.

Better freedom with a crust, than slavery with every luxury.

It is for men to choose whether they will govern themselves or be governed.

That's really what wealth does for you. It gives you freedom to make choices.

The natural state of man is to want to be free. To have opportunities. To have choices.

Every age and generation must be as free to act for itself.

Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice. Without the possibility of choice and the exercise of choice a man is not a man but a member, an instrument, a thing.

Money is the sign of liberty. To curse money is to curse liberty- to curse life, which is nothing, if it be not free.

I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.

We all want the freedom to make our own decisions.

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.

I always knew I wanted to make my own way; I never wanted to be dependent on my father.

You don't have to buy from anyone. You don't have to work at any particular job. You don't have to participate in any given relationship. You can choose.