Many who are self-taught far excel the doctors, masters, and bachelors of the most renowned universities.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe standard of living of the common man is higher in those countries which have the greatest number of wealthy entrepreneurs.
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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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The real bosses, in the capitalist system of market economy, are the consumers.
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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 struggle for freedom is ultimately not resistance to autocrats or oligarchs but resistance to the despotism of public opinion.
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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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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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Under capitalism everybody is the architect of his own fortune.
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Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer.
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All people, however fanatical they may be in their zeal to disparage and to fight capitalism, implicitly pay homage to it by passionately clamoring for the products it turns out
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The philosophy underlying the system of progressive taxation is that the income and wealth of the well-to-do classes can be freely tapped.
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Planning other people’s actions means to prevent them from planning for themselves, means to deprive them of their essentially human quality, means enslaving them.
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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 gold standard did not collapse. Governments abolished it in order to pave the way for inflation.
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There is but one means available to improve the material conditions of mankind: to accelerate the growth of capital accumulated as against the growth in population.
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Capitalism needs neither propaganda nor apostles. Its achievements speak for themselves. Capitalism delivers the goods.
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