Business Quotes by Ludwig von Mises

Big business always serve - directly or indirectly - the masses.

— Ludwig von Mises

The only means to well-being is to increase the quantity of products. This is what business aims at.

— Ludwig von Mises

In capitalist enterprise there is no secure income and no security of wealth.

— Ludwig von Mises

The people who think that the power of big business is enormous are mistaken

— Ludwig von Mises

The market economy as such does not respect political frontiers. Its field is the world.

— Ludwig von Mises

Economic progress is the work of the savers, who accumulate capital, and of the entrepreneurs, who turn capital to new uses.

— Ludwig von Mises

The better an entrepreneur succeeds, the more is he vilified and themore is he soaked by taxation.

— Ludwig von Mises

Production is not something physical, material, and external; it is a spiritual and intellectual phenomenon.

— Ludwig von Mises

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

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

Big business depends entirely on the patronage of those who buy its products: the biggest enterprises loses its power and its influence…

— Ludwig von Mises

The mixing of politics and business not only is detrimental to politics, as is frequently observed, but even much more so to…

— Ludwig von Mises

When we call a capitalist society a consumers democracy we mean that the power to dispose of the means of production, which…

— Ludwig von Mises

The characteristic mark of this age of dictators, wars and revolutions is its anticapitalistic bias. Most governments and political parties were eager…

— Ludwig von Mises

Profits are the driving force of the market economy. The greater the profits, the better the needs of the consumers are supplied...…

— Ludwig von Mises

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

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

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

What is called economic progress is the joint effect of the activities of the three progressive groups-or classes-of the savers, the scientist-inventors,…

— Ludwig von Mises

All that Lenin learned about business from the tales of his comrades who occasionally sat in business offices was that it required…

— Ludwig von Mises

The market steers the capitalistic economy. It directs each individual's activities into those channels in which he best serves the wants of…

— Ludwig von Mises

Experience shows that nothing is operated with less economy and with more waste of labor and material of every kind than public…

— Ludwig von Mises

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

The consumers are merciless. They never buy in order to benefit a less efficient producer and to protect him against the consequences…

— Ludwig von Mises

“By rendering their enterprises profitable, the consumers shift control of the factors of production into the hands of those businessmen who serve…

— Ludwig von Mises

“The economists exploded the old tenets: that it is unfair and unjust to outdo a competitor by producing better and cheaper goods;…

— Ludwig von Mises

“It is irrelevant to the entrepreneur, as the servant of the consumers, whether the wishes and wants of the consumers are wise…

— Ludwig Von Mises

“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

“In the market economy the consumers are supreme. Consumers determine, by their buying or abstention from buying, what should be produced, by…

— Ludwig Von Mises

The entrepreneur profits to the extent he has succeeded in serving the consumers better than other people have done.

— Ludwig von Mises

Those politicians, professors and union bosses who curse big business are fighting for a lower standard of living.

— Ludwig von Mises

Neither the entrepreneurs nor the farmers nor the capitalists determine what has to be produced. The consumers do that.

— Ludwig von Mises

The standard of living of the common man is higher in those countries which have the greatest number of wealthy entrepreneurs.

— Ludwig von Mises

There is no reason why capitalists and entrepreneurs should be ashamed of earning profits.

— Ludwig von Mises

Economically considered, war and revolution are always bad business.

— Ludwig von Mises

What makes small business develop into big business is not spending, but saving and capital accumulation.

— Ludwig von Mises

The only source from which an entrepreneurs profits stem is his ability to anticipate better than other people the future demand of…

— Ludwig von Mises

“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

No private enterprise will ever fall prey to bureaucratic methods of management if it is operated with the sole aim of making…

— Ludwig von Mises

In order to succeed in business a man does not need a degree from a school of business administration. These schools train…

— Ludwig von Mises