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
What people today call inflation is not inflation, i.e., the increase in the quantity of money and money substitutes, but the general… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
In the land of the lotus-eaters there is no action. Action arises only from need, from dissatisfaction. It is purposeful striving towards… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
No increase in the welfare of the member of society can result from the availability of an additional quantity of money. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
If people do not consume their whole incomes, the non-consumed surplus can be invested, it increases the amount of capital goods available… — 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
Inflation is an increase in the quantity of money without a corresponding increase in the demand for money, i.e., for cash holdings. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
As the prosperity of the nation and the height of wage rates depend on a continual increase in the capital invested in… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
If you increase the quantity of money, you bring about the lowering of the purchasing power of the monetary unit. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The characteristic mark of economic history under capitalism is unceasing economic progress, a steady increase in the quantity of capital goods available,… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Once public opinion is convinced that the increase in the quantity of money will continue and never come to an end, and… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
What those people who ask for equality have in mind is always an increase in their own power to consume. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The financial history of the last century shows a steady increase in the amount of public indebtedness. Nobody believes that the states… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
War can really cause no economic boom, at least not directly, since an increase in wealth never does result from destruction of… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The desire for an increase of wealth can be satisfied through exchange, which is the only method possible in a capitalist economy,… — 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
