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.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe only source from which an entrepreneurs profits stem is his ability to anticipate better than other people the future demand of the consumers.
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Their attitudes result either in profit or in loss for the enterpriser. They make poor men rich and rich men poor. They are no easy bosses.
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The whole grim apparatus of oppression and coercion, policemen, customs guards, penal courts, prisons, in some countries even executioners, had to be put into action in order to destroy the gold standard.
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Whoever neglects to examine to the best of his abilities all the problems involved voluntarily surrenders his birthright to a selfappointed elite of supermen.
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Freedom is indivisible. As soon as one starts to restrict it, one enters upon a decline on which it is difficult to stop.
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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 ultimately not resistance to autocrats or oligarchs but resistance to the despotism of public opinion.
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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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All they did was to call their adversaries names and cast suspicion upon their motives. And, unfortunately, the average citizen cannot see through these stratagems.
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The only source from which an entrepreneurs profits stem is his ability to anticipate better than other people the future demand of the consumers.
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Liberty is always freedom from the government.
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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 fundamental law of the market is: the customer is always right.
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Government is the only institution that can take a valuable commodity like paper, and make it worthless by applying ink.
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Laissez faire does not mean: let soulless mechanical forces operate. It means: let individuals choose how they want to cooperate in the social division of labor and let them determine what the entrepreneurs should produce.
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Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer.
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