Private enterprise creates; government destroys. That is the great economic lesson of our times and all times. — Llewellyn Rockwell 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
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
Pollution and overuse of resources stem directly from the failure of government to defend private property. If property rights were to be… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
The problem isn't that conservatives are wrong about the efficiency of markets or the creativity of enterprise. It's that they have made… — Joe Conason Copy Share Image
The real story of Detroit [...] can be summed up in seven words. Private enterprise built it, government destroyed it. — Peter Schiff 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
There can be no freedom of the individual, no democracy, without the capital system, the profit system, the private enterprise system. These… — Russell Cornell Leffingwell Copy Share Image
The trouble with the Labour Party is that they don't really believe in Socialism, but they cannot wholeheartedly approve of private enterprise… — Jo Grimond 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
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
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
We have feudal governments in a commercial age. It would be but an easy extension of our commercial system, to pay a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The line dividing the state from what is called private enterprise, orat least fromthehighlyorganized part of it, is a traditional fiction. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Anything that government can do, private enterprise can do for half the cost. — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
[I believe in] the throne...parliamentary institutions...private enterprise and individual opinion against the socialization of the state...equity in the distribution of public burdens… — Austen Chamberlain 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
God, Private Enterprise and government have made me what I am, and now they have to take some of the blame. — Joy Baluch Copy Share Image
It would be madness to let the purposes or the methods of private enterprise set the habits of the age of atomic… — Harold Laski Copy Share Image
I can remember the time when, if we wanted a house or housing, we relied on private enterprise. In fact, Americans built… — Leonard Read 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
The economic miracle that has been the United States was not produced by socialized enterprises, by government-unon-industry cartels or by centralized economic… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Politicians, bureaucrats, editors, new commentators, 'economists' teachers,' and other word artists who denounce private enterprise and praise socialism are their own worst… — Leonard Read 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