Every government intervention [in the marketplace] creates unintended consequences, which lead to calls for further government interventions.
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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They do not realize that, in a system where there is no market, where the government directs everything, all those other freedoms are illusory, even if they are made into laws and written up in constitutions.
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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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Every socialist is a disguised dictator.
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The criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge it.
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Depression is the aftermath of credit expansion.
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Under capitalism everybody provides for their own needs by serving others.
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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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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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There is no means by which anyone can evade his personal responsibility.
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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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None can stand aside with unconcern; the interest of everyone hangs on the result. Whether he chooses or not, every man is drawn into the great historical struggle, the decisive battle into which our epoch has plunged us.
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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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The entrepreneurs, the capitalists and the technologists prosper as far as they succeed in best supplying the consumers.
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The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.
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Unemployment doles can have no other effect than the perpetuation of unemployment.
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