With some notable exceptions, businessmen favor free…

Businessmen are notable for a peculiarly stalwart character, which enables them to enjoy without loss of self-reliance the benefits of tariffs, franchises, and even…

— Herbert J. Muller

Speeches by businessmen on social responsibility...may gain them kudos in the short run. But it helps to strengthen the already too prevalent view that…

— Milton Friedman

Business corporations in general are not defenders of free enterprise. On the contrary, they are one of the chief sources of danger…Every businessman is…

— Milton Friedman

The great virtue of free enterprise is that it forces existing businesses to meet the test of the market continuously, to produce products that…

— Milton Friedman

The Fed was largely responsible for converting what might have been a garden-variety recession, although perhaps a fairly severe one, into a major catastrophe.…

— Milton Friedman

The strongest argument for free enterprise is that it prevents anybody from having too much power. Whether that person is a government official, a…

— Milton Friedman

So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear. That there is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of…

— Milton Friedman

“. . . there is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle…

— Milton Friedman

You must distinguish sharply between being pro free enterprise and being pro business.

— Milton Friedman

The simple truth is that our businessmen do not want a government that will let business alone. They want a government they can use.

— Albert J. Nock

In the United States businessmen often do not trust their colleagues. If you trust your colleague today, he may be your competitor tomorrow, because…

— Akio Morita

“I got tired of constantly watching shrewd little bullies like you walk around like you mean something, like you’re better than the people that…

— Christopher Rankin

The most successful businessmen were often uneducated when measured by the scholastic standards of the teaching profession. But they were equal to their social…

— Ludwig von Mises

I've studied the lives of the 20th century's great businessmen and concluded self-confidence was instrumental in all their success.

— Alex Spanos

Musicians talk of nothing but money and jobs. Give me businessmen every time. They really are interested in music and art

— Jean Sibelius