Whenever someone starts talking about 'fair competition' or indeed, about 'fairness' in general, it is time to keep a sharp eye on your wallet, for it is about to be picked.

Murray N. Rothbard
Whenever someone starts talking about 'fair competition' or indeed, about...
Whenever someone starts talking about 'fair competition' or indeed, about...
Whenever someone starts talking about 'fair competition' or indeed, about...
Whenever someone starts talking about 'fair competition' or indeed, about...
About This Quote

Competition is a healthy, natural part of life. But when you let it get out of hand, it can be harmful. It can become unfair, and even destructive. And when the competition is about money, it can take over your life. It's much better to compete in other ways that are more positive, like in sports or academics or charity work.

Some Similar Quotes
  1. It’s probably not just by chance that I’m alone. It would be very hard for a man to live with me, unless he’s terribly strong. And if he’s stronger than I, I’m the one who can’t live with him. … I’m neither smart nor stupid,... - Coco Chanel
  2. I am not an angel, ' I asserted; 'and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, you must neither expect nor exact anything celestial of me - for you will not get it, any more than I shall... - Unknown
  3. The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day. - David Foster Wallace
  4. They say a good love is one that sits you down, gives you a drink of water, and pats you on top of the head. But I say a good love is one that casts you into the wind, sets you ablaze, makes you burn... - C. Joybell C.
  5. Keep your best wishes, close to your heart and watch what happens - Tony Deliso
More Quotes By Murray N. Rothbard
  1. It is easy to be conspicuously 'compassionate' if others are being forced to pay the cost.
  2. It is clearly absurd to limit the term 'education' to a person's formal schooling.
  3. Moreover, in the system of criminal punishment in the libertarian world, the emphasis would never be, as it is now, on "society's" jailing the criminal; the emphasis would necessarily be on compelling the criminal to make restitution to the victim of his crime. The present...
  4. Whenever someone starts talking about 'fair competition' or indeed, about 'fairness' in general, it is time to keep a sharp eye on your wallet, for it is about to be picked.
  5. Free-market capitalism is a network of free and voluntary exchanges in which producers work, produce, and exchange their products for the products of others through prices voluntarily arrived at.
Related Topics