Thomas Sowell Quotes
To the economically illiterate, if some company makes a million dollars in profit, this means that their products cost a million dollars more than they would have without profits. It never occurs to such people that these products might cost several million dollars more without the incentives to be efficient created by the prospect of profits.
Thomas Sowell
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Fabrizio Moreira
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P. J. O'Rourke
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Beau Willimon
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Rachel Nichols
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Apollonius of Tyana
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Hal Borland
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Kyle Edmund
To the economically illiterate, if some company makes a million dollars in profit, this means that their products cost a million dollars more than they would have without profits. It never occurs to such people that these products might cost several million dollars more without the incentives to be efficient created by the prospect of profits.
Thomas Sowell