Office Quotes by Ludwig von Mises

8 Office quotes by Ludwig von Mises

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Mises brings a clear‑minded lens to office life, linking economics to the rhythm of daily tasks. In eight succinct statements, his analysis offers a glimpse of how market principles intersect with workplace habits.

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Many pioneers of these industrial changes, it is true, became rich. But they acquired their wealth by supplying the public with motor…

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The consumers are asking for, they lose their office. Their task is service to the consumer. Profit and loss are the instruments…

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Lenin's ideal was to build a nation's production effort according to the model of the post office.

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Economics must not be relegated to classrooms and statistical offices and must not be left to esoteric circles. It is the philosophy…

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The champions of socialism call themselves progressives, but they recommend a system which is characterized by rigid observance of routine and by…

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It is completely in accord with the etatist thinking prevalent everywhere today to consider a theory to be finally disposed of merely…

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

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Only to bureaucrats can the idea occur that establishing new offices, promulgating new decrees, and increasing the number of government employees alone…

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During the 2300 years since Plato, very little opposition has been registered to his ideas.

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“How little one is justified in speaking in this connection of "optimism" and "pessimism" and how much the characterization of liberalism as "optimistic" aims…

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The capitalistic social order, therefore, is an economic democracy in the strictest sense of the word. In the last analysis, all decisions are dependent…

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Without calculation, economic activity is impossible. Since under Socialism economic calculation is impossible, under Socialism there can be no economic activity in our sense…

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

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Peace and not war is the father of all things.

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What counts alone is the innovator, the dissenter, the harbinger of things unheard of, the man who rejects the traditional standards and aims at…

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In reality no food is valued solely for its nutritive power and no garment or house solely for the protection it affords against cold…

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All this talk: the state should do this or that, ultimately means: the police should force consumers to behave otherwise than they would behave…

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The most successful businessmen were often uneducated when measured by the scholastic standards of the teaching profession. But they were equal to their social…

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