Business Quotes by Henry Hazlitt

10 Business quotes by Henry Hazlitt

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Henry Hazlitt’s timeless economic principles are summed up in ten clear observations. They cut through jargon to expose the cause‑and‑effect of business decisions, offering a solid foundation for thoughtful analysis.

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

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When the government makes loans or subsidies to business, what it does is to tax successful private business in order to support…

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Bureaucrats denounce private enterprise for the consequences of their own reckless policies and demand still more governmental controls.

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The solution to our problems is not more paternalism, laws, decrees, and controls, but the restoration of liberty and free enterprise, the…

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If a government resorts to inflation, that is, creates money in order to cover its budget deficits or expands credit in order…

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The sad fact is that today most of the heads of big businesses in America have become so confused or intimidated that,…

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The way to maximize production is to maximize the incentives to production. And the way to do that, as the modern world…

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The quickest and surest way to production, prosperity, and economic growth is through private enterprise. The best way for governments to encourage…

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We are so accustomed to the miracle of private enterprise that we habitually take it for granted. But how does private industry…

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In a free enterprise system, with an honest and stable money, there is dominantly a close link between effort and productivity, on…

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“This is perhaps as good a place as any to point out that what distinguishes many reformers from those who cannot accept their proposals…

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Government can't give us anything without depriving us of something else.

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When the government makes loans or subsidies to business, what it does is to tax successful private business in order to support unsuccessful private…

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“The analysis of our illustrations has taught us another incidental lesson. This is that, when we study the effects of various proposals, not merely…

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There is a profound contrast between the effects of foreign aid and of voluntary private investment: foreign aid goes from government to government. It…

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The mounting burden of taxation not only undermines individual incentives to increased work and earnings, but in a score of ways discourages capital accumulation…

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Multiculturalism means your kid has to learn some wretched tribal dirge for the school holiday concert instead of getting to sing 'Rudolph the Red-Nosed…

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It is possible to increase paper-money income to any amount by debasing the currency. But real income can only be increased by working harder…

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Inflation makes the extension of socialism possible by providing the financial chaos in which it flourishes. The fact is that socialism and inflation are…

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“the desperate need to get back to normal housing and other living conditions stimulated increased efforts. But this does not mean that property destruction…

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Yet it ought to be clear that a minimum wage law is, at best, a limited weapon for combatting the evil of low wages,…

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“It is a misconception to think of the function or result of machines as primarily one of creating jobs . The real result of…

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A certain amount of taxes is of course indispensable to carry on essential government functions. Reasonable taxes for this purpose need not hurt production…

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A vital function of the free market is to penalize inefficiency and misjudgment and to reward efficiency and good judgment. By distorting economic calculations…

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