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
In the economic sphere, the program demanded thorough decentralization and managerial independence of enterprises, as well as legalization of small-scale private enterprise,… — Alexander Dubcek 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
The orthodox doctrines of economics which were dominant in the last quarter of the nineteenth century had a clear message. They supported… — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
“Some regard private enterprise as if it were a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look upon it as a cow that… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
A private enterprise system needs some measuring rod, it needs something, it needs money to make its transactions. You can't run a… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
The real question of government versus private enterprise is argued on too philosophical and abstract a basis. Theoretically, planning may be good.… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Unemployment, with its injustice for the man who seeks and thirsts for employment, who begs for labour and cannot get it, and… — David Lloyd George Copy Share Image
Government-to-government foreign aid promotes statism, centralized planning, socialism, dependence, pauperization, inefficiency, and waste. It prolongs the poverty it is designed to cure.… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
It is a popular error that bureaucracy is less flexible than private enterprise. It may be so in detail, but when large… — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
Bearing all this in mind, we see that there is no Russian national understanding which would permit the early establishment in Russia… — George F. Kennan Copy Share Image
The state tends to expand in proportion to its means of existence and to live beyond its means, and these are, in… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
Those in power are blind devotees to private enterprise. They accept that degree of socialism implicit in the vast subsidies to the… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
Money has always been framed as a public good, one that must be stewarded by governments, when in fact, it is a… — Meltem Demirors Copy Share Image
Small and mid-sized companies in this country historically have been responsible for creating the overwhelming majority of new jobs in the private… — Michael Milken Copy Share Image
The surest way for a poor nation to stay poor is to harass, hobble, and straitjacket private enterprise or to discourage or… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“When you are a private enterprise, savings on expenses go to the bottom line. When you are owned by the public, savings… — Alan C. Greenberg Copy Share Image
Private enterprise manages so much better all the concerns to which it is equal. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Anything that government can do, private enterprise can do for half the cost. — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
I get a bit of a kick out of exporting private enterprise and incentives. — Fred L. Turner Copy Share Image
The treasury could fill old bottles with banknotes and bury them..and leave it to private enterprises on well-tried principles of laissez-faire to… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Private enterprise in cricket might not be regarded as the last word, and ultimate state direction would not do it any harm. — Manny Shinwell, Baron Shinwell Copy Share Image
Private enterprise creates; government destroys. That is the great economic lesson of our times and all times. — Llewellyn Rockwell Copy Share Image
Private enterprise cannot rebuild the nation's infrastructure or keep our research institutions vibrant. Government must do what only it can do. — Richard Cohen Copy Share Image
Private enterprise can never lead a space frontier. It's not possible because a space frontier is expensive, it has unknown risks and… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The rationale for the vast network of government welfare programs as well as regulation and control over private enterprise is based on… — Richard Ebeling Copy Share Image
Donald Trump is not supposed to save jobs one by one. He's supposed to build a sound macro economy in which private… — David Frum Copy Share Image
Social justice and compassion are compatible with an intelligent respect for private enterprise and law and order. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
One thing I fear, that you Americans will do the same thing that you did after the last war. I mean that… — Hjalmar Schacht 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
Rather than being an impediment, NASA can and should be the driver of commerce, the provider of the technology necessary to make… — Homer Hickam Copy Share Image
It's private enterprise that can create jobs and fill them. It's business that can train people and make them productive tax-payers. And… — Bobby Kotick Copy Share Image
The future of private enterprise capitalism is also the future of a free society. There is no possibility of having a politically… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
What the carburetor, sparkplug and self-starter are to an automobile, initiative, private enterprise and executive ability are to industry as a whole,… — William J. H. Boetcker Copy Share Image
The diversity of institutions has made possible the combination of government ownership and private enterprise which has been a further characteristic of… — Harold Innis Copy Share Image
Since the State necessarily lives by the compulsory confiscation of private capital, and since its expansion necessarily involves ever-greater incursions on private… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
All the controversialists who have become conscious of the real issue are already saying of our ideal exactly what used to be… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
