The fundamental law of the market is: the customer is always right.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe liars must be afraid of the truth and are therefore driven to suppress its pronouncement.
More Ludwig von Mises Quotes
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If we live our lives as a gift it is possible to reach a blissful state of eternal happiness. It is those who live their life with a sense of entitlement that undermine peace , freedom and liberty.
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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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Depressions and mass unemployment are not caused by the free market but by government interference in the economy.
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To the masses, the catchwords of Socialism sound so enticing… so they will continue to work for Socialism, helping thereby to bring about the inevitable decline of the civilization which the nations of the West have taken thousands of years to build up.
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What pushes the masses into the camp of socialism is, even more than the illusion that socialism will make them richer, the expectation that it will curb all those who are better than they themselves are.
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The characteristic feature of a free society is that it can function in spite of the fact that its members disagree in many judgments of value.
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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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Capitalism needs neither propaganda nor apostles. Its achievements speak for themselves. Capitalism delivers the goods.
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Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.
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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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The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.
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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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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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The planner is a potential dictator who wants to deprive all other people of the power to plan and act according to their own plans. He aims at one thing only: the exclusive absolute preeminence of his own plan.
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Many who are self-taught far excel the doctors, masters, and bachelors of the most renowned universities.
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