The real story of Detroit [...] can be summed up in seven…

My mother always taught me that two wrongs don't make a right. We shouldn't bail out Wall Street. We shouldn't bail out Detroit. It…

— Peter Schiff

Government-to-government aid rests on socialistic assumptions and promotes socialism and stagnation, whereas private foreign investment rest on capitalist assumptions and promotes private enterprise and…

— Henry Hazlitt

I get a bit of a kick out of exporting private enterprise and incentives.

— Fred L. Turner

I am all in favor of pay equity for women, but this kind of legislation, as is typical of what's being proposed by my…

— John McCain

Lovemaking surely must be, for human beings at our present state of development, one of the more private enterprises. Who would want a witness…

— Katherine Anne Porter

Small and mid-sized companies in this country historically have been responsible for creating the overwhelming majority of new jobs in the private sector. One…

— Michael Milken

Government can't create wealth, but it can create the conditions for private enterprise to flourish.

— Bill Owens

The corporate State considers that private enterprise in the sphere of production is the most effective and useful instrument in the interest of the…

— Benito Mussolini

As motherhood as a "private enterprise" declines and more mothers rely on the work of lower-paid specialists, the value accorded the work of mothering…

— Arlie Russell Hochschild

“Some regard private enterprise as if it were a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look upon it as a cow that they can…

— Winston Churchill

A newspaper is a private enterprise owing nothing whatsoever to the public, which grants it no franchise. It is therefore affected with no public…

— William Peter Hamilton

Private enterprise manages better all that to which it is equal. Anarchism declares that private enterprise, whether individual or cooperative, is equal to all…

— Voltairine de Cleyre

Some [intentional communities], like the Shakers and the Harmony Society, have endured for a century or even longer. The Hutterians, to cite an extreme…

— Benjamin Zablocki

The orthodox doctrines of economics which were dominant in the last quarter of the nineteenth century had a clear message. They supported laisser faire,…

— Joan Robinson

If the State does not acquire supremacy over [vast private] enterprises, it becomes their puppet, and they become the real State.

— Bertrand Russell