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
Private enterprise manages so much better all the concerns to which it is equal. — Thomas Jefferson 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
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
“that's how the government is. It was invented to do stuff that private enterprise doesn't bother with, which means that there's probably… — Anonymous 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
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
The idea that government can instruct private enterprise on how to eliminate waste is preposterous. — James Cook 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
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
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
“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
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
“a private enterprise is a failure, it closes down—unless it can get a government subsidy to keep it going; if a government… — Milton Friedman 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
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
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
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
[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
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
The quickest and surest way to production, prosperity, and economic growth is through private enterprise. The best way for governments to encourage… — Henry Hazlitt 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
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 real story of Detroit [...] can be summed up in seven words. Private enterprise built it, government destroyed it. — Peter Schiff 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
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
Social justice and compassion are compatible with an intelligent respect for private enterprise and law and order. — Camille Paglia 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
It's time to believe again in the potential of private enterprise set free from the shackles of over-bearing federal government. — Rick Perry 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
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