The orthodox doctrines of economics which were dominant in the last quarter of the nineteenth century had a clear message. They supported… — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
A private enterprise system needs some measuring rod, it needs something, it needs money to make its transactions. You can't run a… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Bearing all this in mind, we see that there is no Russian national understanding which would permit the early establishment in Russia… — George F. Kennan Copy Share Image
The real question of government versus private enterprise is argued on too philosophical and abstract a basis. Theoretically, planning may be good.… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Unemployment, with its injustice for the man who seeks and thirsts for employment, who begs for labour and cannot get it, and… — David Lloyd George Copy Share Image
Since the State necessarily lives by the compulsory confiscation of private capital, and since its expansion necessarily involves ever-greater incursions on private… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
Government-to-government foreign aid promotes statism, centralized planning, socialism, dependence, pauperization, inefficiency, and waste. It prolongs the poverty it is designed to cure.… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
It is a popular error that bureaucracy is less flexible than private enterprise. It may be so in detail, but when large… — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
The state tends to expand in proportion to its means of existence and to live beyond its means, and these are, in… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
Those in power are blind devotees to private enterprise. They accept that degree of socialism implicit in the vast subsidies to the… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
In actual fact, it is the State, i.e., the taxpayer who has become responsible to private enterprise. In Fascist Italy the State… — Gaetano Salvemini Copy Share Image
It's true that private enterprise is extremely flexible, But its only good within very narrow limits. If private enterprise isn't held in… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
'Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger, to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk.… — Andrew Guzaldo Copy Share Image
Pollution and overuse of resources stem directly from the failure of government to defend private property. If property rights were to be… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
Money has always been framed as a public good, one that must be stewarded by governments, when in fact, it is a… — Meltem Demirors Copy Share Image
Small and mid-sized companies in this country historically have been responsible for creating the overwhelming majority of new jobs in the private… — Michael Milken Copy Share Image
The surest way for a poor nation to stay poor is to harass, hobble, and straitjacket private enterprise or to discourage or… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“a private enterprise is a failure, it closes down—unless it can get a government subsidy to keep it going; if a government… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Politicians, bureaucrats, editors, new commentators, 'economists' teachers,' and other word artists who denounce private enterprise and praise socialism are their own worst… — Leonard Read Copy Share Image
“When you are a private enterprise, savings on expenses go to the bottom line. When you are owned by the public, savings… — Alan C. Greenberg Copy Share Image
