In the conventional wisdom of conservatives, the modern search for security is regularly billed as the greatest single threat to economic progress. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Competition is the most promising means to achieve and secure prosperity. It alone enables people in their role of consumer to gain… — Ludwig Erhard Copy Share Image
Capitalism as a social order and as a creed is the expression of the belief in economic progress as leading toward the… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Short-sighted and impatient efforts to wipe out poverty by severing the connection between effort and reward can only lead to the growth… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
India can make rapid economic progress to become a developed country only through a globally competitive economy, which requires assured access to… — Subramanian Swamy Copy Share Image
I think economics is about passion. Economic progress, whether it is a two-person coffee shop or whether it is Netscape, is about… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
What is called economic progress is the joint effect of the activities of the three progressive groups-or classes-of the savers, the scientist-inventors,… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The characteristic mark of economic history under capitalism is unceasing economic progress, a steady increase in the quantity of capital goods available,… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The affluent society has built well in terms of economic progress, but has neglected the protection of the very water we drink… — Frank Church Copy Share Image
It is absolutely no accident that the peace and reconciliation, and indeed the economic progress, that eluded us generation after generation for… — Mary McAleese Copy Share Image
We will find neither national purpose nor personal satisfaction in a mere continuation of economic progress, in an endless amassing of worldly… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
There are those, of course, who claim we must give up freedom in exchange for economic progress. Well, pardon me, but anyone… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Liberals believe and inexhaustible fund exists that can be tapped endlessly to pay for government social programs. Tax the rich and give… — James Cook Copy Share Image
Europe is often held up as a cautionary tale, a demonstration that if you try to make the economy less brutal, to… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
But the broader lesson of the first Industrial Revolution is more like the Indy 500 than John Henry: economic progress comes from… — Erik Brynjolfsson Copy Share Image
It is Margaret Thatcher's fault...Inspired by busy little demons, she slashed and burnt her way through the old order. Sentiment was given… — Stephen Bayley Copy Share Image
Politics is a dirty business, a ruse, an ideological cul-de-sac, a vast looter of intellectual and financial resources, a lie that corrupts,… — Jeffrey Tucker Copy Share Image
China has seen a great deal of economic progress. It's certainly rather of a miracle. The growing role of the market in… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
From the equilibrium and spontaneous order of Adam Smith and his heirs, from invisible-handed markets and perfect competition, supply and demand, and… — George Gilder Copy Share Image
Yes, over the centuries economic progress has reduced some gross disparities - modern Americans are relatively unlikely to simply starve to death… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
