Adam Smith: “Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to, only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer.”
John Maynard Keynes: “When the final result is expected to be a compromise, it is often prudent to start from an extreme position.”
Milson Friedman: "Most economic fallacies derive from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another."