George Gilder Quotes About Risk

Quotes about: Risk

• A successful economy depends on the proliferation of the rich, on creating a large class of risk-taking men who are willing to shun the easy channels of a comfortable life in order to create new enterprise, win huge profits, and invest them again.

  George Gilder

  Successful, Winning, Men

  George Gilder (2012). “Wealth and Poverty: A New Edition for the Twenty-First Century”, p.332, Regnery Publishing

• But if the 1 percent and the 0.1 percent are respected and allowed to risk their wealth - and new rebels are allowed to rise up and challenge them - America will continue to be the land where the last regularly become the first by serving others.

  George Gilder

  Land, America, Political

  George Gilder (2013). “Knowledge and Power: The Information Theory of Capitalism and How it is Revolutionizing our World”, p.172, Regnery Publishing

• Socialism is an insurance policy bought by all the members of a national economy to shield them from risk. But the result is to shield them from knowledge of the real dangers and opportunities.

  George Gilder

  Real, Opportunity, Risk

  George Gilder (2013). “Knowledge and Power: The Information Theory of Capitalism and How it is Revolutionizing our World”, p.246, Regnery Publishing

• The United States is probably the most [socially] mobile society in the history of the world. The virtues that are most valuable in it are diligence, discipline, ambition, and a willingness to take risks. Education and credentials are most important in government; elsewhere most skills are learned on the job.

  George Gilder

  Jobs, Ambition, Government

• All small returns are noise. To transcend the noise and the risk, seek outsized returns from technological paradigms.

  George Gilder

  Risk, Noise, Return

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