Americans feel as though the only position they can possibly occupy is number one and if they're not number one, well, the end of the world has come.

When you think of everything in terms of just money, then almost nothing is enough. I mean, how much money is enough? Because it's hard to translate money into goods. And I think people, once, I think there's a lot things can believe, and once they start thinking about wealth in terms of money, they lose the idea of enough-ness.

Hayek became in his later years the dominant intellectual influence of the last quarter of the twentieth century.