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 MISESEconomic progress is the work of the savers, who accumulate capital, and of the entrepreneurs, who turn capital to new uses.
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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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The first requisite for a better social order is the return to unrestricted freedom of thought and speech.
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Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer.
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The alternative is only whether the crisis should come sooner as the result of voluntary abandonment of further credit expansion, or later as a final and total catastrophe of the currency system involved.
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The worship of the state is the worship of force. There is no more dangerous menace to civilization than a government of incompetent, corrupt, or vile men.
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Government is in the last resort the employment of armed men, of policemen, gendarmes, soldiers, prison guards, and hangmen.
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The criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge it.
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The issue is always the same: the government or the market. There is no third solution.
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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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Economics is not about things and tangible material objects; it is about men, their meanings and actions.
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Under capitalism everybody is the architect of his own fortune.
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Know that every breath is a miracle and every moment a blessing and you will achieve your dreams.
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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 liars must be afraid of the truth and are therefore driven to suppress its pronouncement.
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For destruction is the essence of it. It produces nothing, it only consumes what the social order based on private ownership in the means of production has created.
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