There is no reason why capitalists and entrepreneurs should be ashamed of earning profits. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Progressive taxation of income and profits means that precisely those parts of the income which people would have saved and invested are… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The only source from which an entrepreneurs profits stem is his ability to anticipate better than other people the future demand of… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“The elimination of profit, whatever methods may be resorted to for its execution, must transform society into a senseless jumble.” — Ludwig von Mises 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
While under precapitalistic conditions superior men were the masters on whom the masses of the inferior had to attend, under capitalism the… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
There would not be any profits but for the eagerness of the public to acquire the merchandise offered for sale by the… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The consumers are asking for, they lose their office. Their task is service to the consumer. Profit and loss are the instruments… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Inequality of wealth and incomes is an essential feature of the market economy. It is the implement that makes the consumers supreme… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The [liberals] consider profits as objectionable. The very existence of profits is in their eyes a proof that wage rates could be… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
It is not the fault of the entrepreneurs that the consumers,the people, the common man,prefer liquor to Bibles and detective stories to… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Every step toward the elimination of profit is progress on the way toward social disintegration. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The elimination of profit, whatever methods may be resorted to for its execution, must transform society into a senseless jumble. It would… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Profits are the driving force of the market economy. The greater the profits, the better the needs of the consumers are supplied...… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The entrepreneur profits to the extent he has succeeded in serving the consumers better than other people have done. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
All people, entrepreneurs as well as non-entrepreneurs, look askance upon any profits earned by other people. Envy is a common weakness of… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Capital does not 'beget profit' as Marx thought. The capital goods as such are dead things that in themselves do not accomplish… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The real bosses in the capitalist system of market economy are the consumers. They by their buying and by their abstention from… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
If the present American laws concerning the taxation of the profits of corporations, the incomes of individuals, and inheritances had been introduced… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
There is but one means available to improve the material conditions of mankind: to accelerate the growth of capital accumulated as against… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
If the members of parliament no longer consider themselves mandatories of the taxpayers but deputies of those receiving salaries, wages, subsidies, doles, and other… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Changes in human conditions are brought about by the pioneering of the cleverest and most energetic men. They take the lead and the rest… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
During the 2300 years since Plato, very little opposition has been registered to his ideas. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“How little one is justified in speaking in this connection of "optimism" and "pessimism" and how much the characterization of liberalism as "optimistic" aims… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Every step by which an individual substitutes concerted action for isolated action results in an immediate and recognizable improvement in his conditions. The advantages… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The capitalistic social order, therefore, is an economic democracy in the strictest sense of the word. In the last analysis, all decisions are dependent… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Without calculation, economic activity is impossible. Since under Socialism economic calculation is impossible, under Socialism there can be no economic activity in our sense… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
There is no kind of freedom and liberty other than the kind which the market economy brings about. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
What counts alone is the innovator, the dissenter, the harbinger of things unheard of, the man who rejects the traditional standards and aims at… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
In reality no food is valued solely for its nutritive power and no garment or house solely for the protection it affords against cold… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
All this talk: the state should do this or that, ultimately means: the police should force consumers to behave otherwise than they would behave… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
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