Investing Quotes by Ludwig von Mises

The market economy-capitalism-is a social system of consumers' supremacy.

— Ludwig von Mises

There prevails on a free labor market a tendency toward full employment.

— Ludwig von Mises

The issue is always the same: the government or the market. There is no third solution.

— Ludwig von Mises

The market system makes all producers responsible to the consumer.

— Ludwig von Mises

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

— Ludwig von Mises

The market is a democracy in which every penny gives a right to vote.

— Ludwig von Mises

The real bosses, in the capitalist system of market economy, are the consumers.

— Ludwig von Mises

The market and its inescapable law are supreme.

— Ludwig von Mises

As soon as the economic freedom which the market economy grants to its members is removed, all political liberties and bills of…

— Ludwig von Mises

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

— Ludwig von Mises

What vitiates entirely the socialists economic critique of capitalism is their failure to grasp the sovereignty of the consumers in the market…

— Ludwig von Mises

Capitalism or market economy is that system of social cooperation and division of labor that is based on private ownership of the…

— Ludwig von Mises

The prerequisite for more economic equality in the world is industrialization. And this is possible only through increased capital investment, increased capital…

— Ludwig von Mises

The democracy of the market consists in the fact that people themselves make their choices and that no dictator has the power…

— Ludwig von Mises

The market economy needs no apologists and propagandists. It can apply to itself the words of Sir Christopher Wren's epitaph in St.…

— Ludwig von Mises

Where there is no market economy, the best intentioned provisions of constitutions and laws remain a dead letter.

— 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

where Nietzsche's response to the equation of socialism and morality was to question the value of morality, at least as it had…

— 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

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

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 market economy is the social system of the division of labor under private ownership of the means of production. Everybody acts…

— 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

Inequality of wealth and incomes is an essential feature of the market economy. It is the implement that makes the consumers supreme…

— Ludwig von Mises

Inflationism, however, is not an isolated phenomenon. It is only one piece in the total framework of politico-economic and socio-philosophical ideas of…

— Ludwig von Mises

Credit expansion is the governments' foremost tool in their struggle against the market economy. In their hands it is the magic wand…

— Ludwig von Mises

The real bosses in the capitalist system of market economy are the consumers. They by their buying and by their abstention from…

— Ludwig von Mises

One day, because they realize for some reason or other that they must stop credit expansion, the banks do stop creating new…

— Ludwig von Mises

“Is precisely in market dealings that market prices are formed for all kinds of goods and services, which will be taken as…

— Ludwig von Mises

There is no means by which anyone can evade his personal responsibility. Whoever neglects to examine to the best of his abilities…

— Ludwig von Mises

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

“There has been much talk about the alleged exploitation of the debtor nations by the creditor nations. But if the concept of…

— 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

“Nothing is more unpopular today than the free market economy, i.e., capitalism. Everything that is considered unsatisfactory in present-day conditions is charged…

— Ludwig von Mises

Do not give in to evil, but proceed ever more boldly against it.

— Ludwig von Mises

The market is not a place, a thing, or a collective entity. It is a process.

— Ludwig von Mises

The fundamental law of the market is: the customer is always right.

— Ludwig von Mises

Servile labour disappeared because it could not stand the competition of free labour; its un-profitability sealed its doom in the market economy.

— Ludwig von Mises

The Welfare State is merely a method for transforming the market economy step by step into socialism.

— Ludwig von Mises