The real story of Detroit [...] can be summed up in seven words. Private enterprise built it, government destroyed it. — Peter Schiff 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
When shallow critics denounce the profit motive inherent in our system of private enterprise, they ignore the fact that it is an… — Anonymous 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
[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
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
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
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
“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
The New Deals enmity for that system of free and competitive private enterprise which we call capitalism was fundamental. — Garet Garrett 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 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
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
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
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
Social justice and compassion are compatible with an intelligent respect for private enterprise and law and order. — Camille Paglia 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
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
Private enterprise in the history of civilization has never led large, expensive, dangerous projects with unknown risks. That has never happened because… — Neil deGrasse Tyson 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
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
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
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
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
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