The capitalistic social order, therefore, is an economic democracy in the strictest sense of the word. In the last analysis, all decisions… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The most successful businessmen were often uneducated when measured by the scholastic standards of the teaching profession. But they were equal to… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“Used to the conditions of a capitalistic environment, the average American takes it for granted that every year business makes something new… — Ludwig Von Mises Copy Share Image
Business is a means- the only means- to increase the quantity of goods available for preserving life and rendering it more agreeable. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The standard of living of the common man is higher in those countries which have the greatest number of wealthy entrepreneurs. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
An entrepreneur cannot be trained. A man becomes and entrepreneur by seizing an opportunity and filling the gap. No special education is… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Economically considered, war and revolution are always bad business. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The consumers suffer when the laws of the country prevent the most efficient entrepreneurs from expanding the sphere of their activities. What… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“The people of the United States are more prosperous…because their government embarked later than other governments…upon the policy of obstructing business” — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
There is no reason why capitalists and entrepreneurs should be ashamed of earning profits. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
It is not the fault of the entrepreneurs that the consumers,the people, the common man,prefer liquor to Bibles and detective stories to… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Used to the conditions of a capitalistic environment, the average American takes it for granted that every year business makes something new… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Those politicians, professors and union bosses who curse big business are fighting for a lower standard of living. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Neither the entrepreneurs nor the farmers nor the capitalists determine what has to be produced. The consumers do that. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The consumers are asking for, they lose their office. Their task is service to the consumer. Profit and loss are the instruments… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The direction of all economic affairs is in the market society a task of the entrepreneurs. Theirs is the control of production.… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The riches of the rich are not the cause of the poverty of anybody; the process that makes some people rich is,… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
If, as is generally the case, the heirs are not equal to the demands which life makes on an entrepreneur, the inherited… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
There would not be any profits but for the eagerness of the public to acquire the merchandise offered for sale by the… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
It is solely bigness in business which makes it possible to supply the masses with all those products the present-day American common… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Those fighting for free enterprise and free competition do not defend the interests of those rich today. They want a free hand… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The only means to well-being is to increase the quantity of products. This is what business aims at. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Production is not something physical, material, and external; it is a spiritual and intellectual phenomenon. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Economic progress is the work of the savers, who accumulate capital, and of the entrepreneurs, who turn capital to new uses. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The market economy as such does not respect political frontiers. Its field is the world. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
If the members of parliament no longer consider themselves mandatories of the taxpayers but deputies of those receiving salaries, wages, subsidies, doles, and other… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Changes in human conditions are brought about by the pioneering of the cleverest and most energetic men. They take the lead and the rest… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
During the 2300 years since Plato, very little opposition has been registered to his ideas. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“How little one is justified in speaking in this connection of "optimism" and "pessimism" and how much the characterization of liberalism as "optimistic" aims… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Every step by which an individual substitutes concerted action for isolated action results in an immediate and recognizable improvement in his conditions. The advantages… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The capitalistic social order, therefore, is an economic democracy in the strictest sense of the word. In the last analysis, all decisions are dependent… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Without calculation, economic activity is impossible. Since under Socialism economic calculation is impossible, under Socialism there can be no economic activity in our sense… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
There is no kind of freedom and liberty other than the kind which the market economy brings about. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
What counts alone is the innovator, the dissenter, the harbinger of things unheard of, the man who rejects the traditional standards and aims at… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
In reality no food is valued solely for its nutritive power and no garment or house solely for the protection it affords against cold… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
All this talk: the state should do this or that, ultimately means: the police should force consumers to behave otherwise than they would behave… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
