The only source from which an entrepreneurs profits stem is his ability to anticipate better than other people the future demand of the consumers.
LUDWIG VON MISESWhoever neglects to examine to the best of his abilities all the problems involved voluntarily surrenders his birthright to a selfappointed elite of supermen.
More Ludwig von Mises Quotes
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All rational action is in the first place individual action. Only the individual thinks. Only the individual reasons. Only the individual acts.
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The champions of socialism call themselves progressives, but they recommend a system which is characterized by rigid observance of routine and by a resistance to every kind of improvement.
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Government spending cannot create additional jobs. If the government provides the funds required by taxing the citizens or by borrowing from the public, it abolishes on the one hand as many jobs as it creates on the other.
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The Welfare State is merely a method for transforming the market economy step by step into socialism.
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The entrepreneur profits to the extent he has succeeded in serving the consumers better than other people have done.
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The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.
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If one rejects laissez faire on account of mans fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action.
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He who serves the public best, makes the highest profits.
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Liberty is meaningless if it is only the liberty to agree with those in power.
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The real bosses, in the capitalist system of market economy, are the consumers.
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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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The struggle for freedom is not the struggle of the many against the few, but of minorities, sometimes of a minority of but one man gainst the majority.
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The main propoganda trick of supporters of the allegedly “progressive” policy of government control is to blame capitalism for all that is unsatisfactory in present-day conditions and to extol the blessings of socialism. They have never attempted to prove their fallacious dogmas.
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True, governments can reduce the rate of interest in the short run. They can issue additional paper money.
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He who is unfit to serve his fellow citizens wants to rule them.
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