The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe entrepreneur profits to the extent he has succeeded in serving the consumers better than other people have done.
More Ludwig von Mises Quotes
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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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It is important to remember that government interference always means either violent action or the threat of such action.
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The liars must be afraid of the truth and are therefore driven to suppress its pronouncement.
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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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Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer.
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Every government intervention [in the marketplace] creates unintended consequences, which lead to calls for further government interventions.
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The riches of the rich are not the cause of the poverty of anybody; the process that makes some people rich is, on the contrary, the corollary of the process that improves many peoples want satisfaction.
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Free markets. What does this system mean? The answer is simple: it is the market economy, it is the system in which the cooperation of individuals in the social division of labor is achieved by the market.
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Liberty is always freedom from the government.
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The fundamental law of the market is: the customer is always right.
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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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It is the soil in which the seeds of freedom are nurtured and in which the autonomy of the individual and ultimately all intellectual and material progress are rooted.
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State interference in economic life, which calls itself economic policy, has done nothing but destroy economic life. Prohibitions and regulations have by their general obstructive tendency fostered the growth of the spirit of wastefulness.
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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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The entrepreneurs, the capitalists and the technologists prosper as far as they succeed in best supplying the consumers.
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