Collected Meditations
Showing 14 quotesYou don't get out of poverty by magic. You get out of poverty with capitalism, savings and hard work.— Javier Milei
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Work
Free immigration is wonderful, it is fabulous. But when you have a welfare state, and a part of society is paying for the welfare state, and someone else comes to use it without paying for it, it generates the free-rider problem.— Javier Milei
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Society
If we manage to remove the state enough for society to flourish, we will have succeeded because free economic activity will lead to benefits for all of society.— Javier Milei
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Society
Economic freedom, limited government and unlimited respect for private property are essential elements for economic growth.— Javier Milei
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Respect
Today, states don't need to directly control the means of production to control every aspect of the lives of individuals. With tools such as printing money, debt, subsidies, controlling the interest rate, price controls and regulations to correct the so-called market failures, they can control the lives and fates of millions of individuals.— Javier Milei
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Money
Unfortunately, our leadership decided to abandon the model that had made us rich and embrace the impoverishing ideas of collectivism.— Javier Milei
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Leadership
We had a strategy to dollarize. It was to take the assets of the Central Bank against the national government, transfer those securities to the market, and get dollars.— Javier Milei
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Government
I have said that throughout history, there have been great leaders who have embodied freedom.— Javier Milei
I don't think like a central planner. We think in terms of a regime of freedom.— Javier Milei
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Freedom
We have decided to espouse the ideas of freedom, which are the foundation of the West and have brought so much prosperity to the world.— Javier Milei
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Freedom
We work to show the world that embracing the ideas of freedom brings prosperity.— Javier Milei
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Freedom
My message is to keep faith in God, stay strong and united. Eventually, the world will realize the enduring truth - the nation of Israel lives on!— Javier Milei
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Faith
I am an economist, a liberal libertarian economist, who has never had the ambition to be a politician and who was who was honored with the position of President of the Argentine Republic, in the face of the resounding failure of more than a century of collectivist policies - a century of collectivist policies that destroyed our country.— Javier Milei
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Failure