Government can't create wealth, but it can create the conditions for private enterprise to flourish. — Bill Owens Copy Share Image
When a private enterprise fails, it is closed down; when a government enterprise fails, it is expanded. Isn't that exactly what's been… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Canada needs to dismantle its public health-care system and allow private enterprise to get involved and turn a profit. — Sarah Palin Copy Share Image
Bureaucrats denounce private enterprise for the consequences of their own reckless policies and demand still more governmental controls. — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
If the State does not acquire supremacy over [vast private] enterprises, it becomes their puppet, and they become the real State. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Are not the worst examples of architecture to be found in private enterprise in cheap jerry-built homes? — Hugh Dalton Copy Share Image
Above all, as the keynote of all Democratic policy, in passing upon any question, let the controlling aim and ambition be to… — John W. Davis Copy Share Image
In private enterprises men may advance or recede, whereas they who aim at empire have no alternative between the highest success and… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
I used to be a businessman and I enjoyed what I did and I thought that it was socially useful. I don't… — Charles Ferguson Copy Share Image
Many understand "state socialism" in this way. Sometimes a system is concealed behind this term in which the capitalist state, in the… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
If you're going to lead a space frontier, it has to be government; it'll never be private enterprise. Because the space frontier… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I am all in favor of pay equity for women, but this kind of legislation, as is typical of what's being proposed… — John McCain Copy Share Image
The corporate State considers that private enterprise in the sphere of production is the most effective and useful instrument in the interest… — Benito Mussolini Copy Share Image
Lovemaking surely must be, for human beings at our present state of development, one of the more private enterprises. Who would want… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
As motherhood as a "private enterprise" declines and more mothers rely on the work of lower-paid specialists, the value accorded the work… — Arlie Russell Hochschild Copy Share Image
The Great Depression in the United States, far from being a sign of the inherent instability of the private enterprise system, is… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Unlike private enterprise which quickly modifies its actions to meet emergencies - unlike the shopkeeper who promptly finds the wherewith to satisfy… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Education is here placed among the articles of public care, not that it would be proposed to take its ordinary branches out… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Eventually private enterprise will be able to send people into orbit, but I suspect initially it's going to have to be with… — Sally Ride Copy Share Image
Capitalism is chronically unstable.Boom and bust has always marked capitalism in the United States. There were panics in 1785, 1791, 1819, 1857,… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
We are so accustomed to the miracle of private enterprise that we habitually take it for granted. But how does private industry… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
For the protection of the community, of individual life and health, there are some necessities that should be provided for all at… — Theodore Newton Vail Copy Share Image
Some [intentional communities], like the Shakers and the Harmony Society, have endured for a century or even longer. The Hutterians, to cite… — Benjamin Zablocki Copy Share Image
I think eventually private enterprise will be able to send people into orbit, but I suspect initially it's going to have to… — Sally Ride Copy Share Image
Private enterprise is ceasing to be free enterprise. Private enterprise, indeed, became too private. It became privileged enterprise, not free enterprise. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The sole function of Government is to bring about a condition of affairs favorable to the beneficial development of private enterprise. — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
There's a very good reason that governments aren't supposed to compete with private-enterprise companies. Governments have monopolies on certain things, like eminent… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
A newspaper is a private enterprise owing nothing whatsoever to the public, which grants it no franchise. It is therefore affected with… — William Peter Hamilton Copy Share Image
The idea that government can instruct private enterprise on how to eliminate waste is preposterous. — James Cook Copy Share Image
The New Deal's enmity for that system of free and competitive private enterprise which we call capitalism was fundamental. — Garet Garrett Copy Share Image
The New Deals enmity for that system of free and competitive private enterprise which we call capitalism was fundamental. — Garet Garrett Copy Share Image
Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk.… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Private enterprise manages better all that to which it is equal. Anarchism declares that private enterprise, whether individual or cooperative, is equal… — Voltairine de Cleyre Copy Share Image
Government-to-government aid rests on socialistic assumptions and promotes socialism and stagnation, whereas private foreign investment rest on capitalist assumptions and promotes private… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The principle of real leadership ignored, the immortal objects of society forgotten, practical conservatism degenerated into mere laudation of private enterprise, economic… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
Private enterprise is not as spectacular nor as easy to see as the socialist way of temporarily diffusing poverty by eating up… — Raymond C. Hoiles Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Respecters of private property are really obligated to oppose much that is done today in the name of private enterprise, for corporate… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image