Achievement Quotes by Ludwig von Mises

10 Achievement quotes by Ludwig von Mises

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Mises frames achievement through the lens of rational action and market dynamics. In these ten quotes, his analytical style shines, giving readers a compact look at his ideas on personal and societal progress.

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Capitalism needs neither propaganda nor apostles. Its achievements speak for themselves. Capitalism delivers the goods.

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Western civilization is based upon the libertarian principle, and all its achievements are the results of the action of free men.

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In the bureaucratic machine of socialism the way toward promotion is not achievement but the favor of the superiors.

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Every man aims at avoiding what causes him pain; the activities of government ultimately consist in the infliction of pain. All great…

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Many pioneers of these industrial changes, it is true, became rich. But they acquired their wealth by supplying the public with motor…

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The body of economic knowledge is an essential element in the structure of human civilization; it is the foundation upon which modern…

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The main achievement of economics is that it has provided a theory of peaceful human cooperation. This is why the harbingers of…

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They [intellectuals] coined most of the slogans that guided the butcheries of Bolshevism, Fascism, and Nazism. Intellectuals extolling the delights of murder,…

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It is always the individual who thinks. Society does not think any more than it eats or drinks. The evolution of human…

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If history could prove and teach us anything, it would be the private ownership of the means of production as a necessary…

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During the 2300 years since Plato, very little opposition has been registered to his ideas.

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Every step by which an individual substitutes concerted action for isolated action results in an immediate and recognizable improvement in his conditions. The advantages…

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The capitalistic social order, therefore, is an economic democracy in the strictest sense of the word. In the last analysis, all decisions are dependent…

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Without calculation, economic activity is impossible. Since under Socialism economic calculation is impossible, under Socialism there can be no economic activity in our sense…

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There is no kind of freedom and liberty other than the kind which the market economy brings about.

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Peace and not war is the father of all things.

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What counts alone is the innovator, the dissenter, the harbinger of things unheard of, the man who rejects the traditional standards and aims at…

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In reality no food is valued solely for its nutritive power and no garment or house solely for the protection it affords against cold…

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All this talk: the state should do this or that, ultimately means: the police should force consumers to behave otherwise than they would behave…

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

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