Do not give in to evil, but proceed ever more boldly against it.
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.
More Ludwig von Mises Quotes
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Unemployment doles can have no other effect than the perpetuation of unemployment.
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If one rejects laissez faire on account of mans fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action.
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The mark of the creative mind is that it defies a part of what it has learned.
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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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There is no means by which anyone can evade his personal responsibility.
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Under capitalism everybody provides for their own needs by serving others.
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The essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning.
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[E]conomic history is a long record of government policies that failed because they were designed with a bold disregard for the laws of economics
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Under capitalism everybody is the architect of his own fortune.
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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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The final outcome of the credit expansion is general impoverishment.
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The causes of all panics, crashes and depressions can be summed up in only four words: the misuse of credit.
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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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Planning other people’s actions means to prevent them from planning for themselves, means to deprive them of their essentially human quality, means enslaving them.
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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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