Their attitudes result either in profit or in loss for the enterpriser. They make poor men rich and rich men poor. They are no easy bosses.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe market is a democracy in which every penny gives a right to vote.
More Ludwig von Mises Quotes
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The alcoholic and the drug addict harm only themselves by their behavior; the person who violates the rules of morality governing mans life in society harms not only himself, but everyone.
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There is no means by which anyone can evade his personal responsibility.
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If you increase the quantity of money, you bring about the lowering of the purchasing power of the monetary unit.
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Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.
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In a battle between force and an idea, the latter always prevails.
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Whoever prefers life to death, happiness to suffering, well-being to misery must defend without compromise private ownership in the means of production.
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The standard of living of the common man is higher in those countries which have the greatest number of wealthy entrepreneurs.
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The real bosses, in the capitalist system of market economy, are the consumers.
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The truth is that the government cannot give if it does not take from somebody…It is not in the power of the government to make everybody more prosperous.
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Socialism is not in the least what it pretends to be. It is not the pioneer of a better and finer world, but the spoiler of what thousands of years of civilization have created. It does not build, it destroys.
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The only source from which an entrepreneurs profits stem is his ability to anticipate better than other people the future demand of the consumers.
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Depression is the aftermath of credit expansion.
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The entrepreneurs, the capitalists and the technologists prosper as far as they succeed in best supplying the consumers.
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The truth is that most people lack the intellectual ability and courage to resist a popular movement, however pernicious and ill-considered.
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There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion.
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