The entrepreneurs, the capitalists and the technologists prosper as far as they succeed in best supplying the consumers.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe 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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Innovators and creative geniuses cannot be reared in schools. They are precisely the men who defy what the school has taught them.
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Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.
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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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What mankind needs today is liberation from the rule of nonsensical slogans and a return to sound reasoning.
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The real bosses in the capitalist system of market economy are the consumers. They by their buying and by their abstention from buying decide who should own the capital and run the plants. They determine what should be produced and in what quantity and quality.
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A free press can only exist where there is private control over the means of production
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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 greater the amount of capital invested per head of the worker, the more and better goods can be produced and consumed.
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He who serves the public best, makes the highest profits.
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What the advocates of these tax rates fail to realize is that the greater part of the incomes taxed away would not have been consumed but saved and invested.
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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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Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.
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The advocates of public control cannot do without inflation. They need it in order to finance their policy of reckless spending and of lavishly subsidizing and bribing the voters.
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For them the main thing is not to improve the conditions of the masses, but to harm the entrepreneurs and capitalists even if this policy victimizes the immense majority of the people.
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The real bosses, in the capitalist system of market economy, are the consumers.
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