The fundamental law of the market is: the customer is always right.
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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Tyranny is the political corollary of socialism, as representative government is the political corollary of the market economy.
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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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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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The most important thing to remember is that inflation is not an act of God, that inflation is not a catastrophe of the elements or a disease that comes like the plague. Inflation is a policy.
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In a battle between force and an idea, the latter always prevails.
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Taxing profits is tantamount to taxing success.
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The champions of socialism call themselves progressives, but they recommend a system which is characterized by rigid observance of routine and by a resistance to every kind of improvement.
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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 is the only institution that can take a valuable commodity like paper, and make it worthless by applying ink.
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Under capitalism everybody is the architect of his own fortune.
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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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A society that chooses between capitalism and socialism does not choose between two social systems; it chooses between social cooperation and the disintegration of society. Socialism is not an alternative to capitalism; it is an alternative to any system under which men can live as human beings.
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There is no means by which anyone can evade his personal responsibility.
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The liars must be afraid of the truth and are therefore driven to suppress its pronouncement.
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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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