Wealth Quotes by Ludwig von Mises

In capitalist enterprise there is no secure income and no security of wealth.

— Ludwig von Mises

War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings.

— Ludwig von Mises

Fortunes cannot grow; someone has to increase them.

— Ludwig von Mises

Under capitalism everybody is the architect of his own fortune.

— Ludwig von Mises

The masses, in their capacity as consumers, ultimately determine everybody's revenues and wealth.

— Ludwig von Mises

The inequality of income and fortunes is essential in capitalism.

— Ludwig von Mises

War can really cause no economic boom, at least not directly, since an increase in wealth never does result from destruction of…

— Ludwig von Mises

A wealthy man can preserve his wealth only by continuing to serve the consumers in the most efficient way.

— Ludwig von Mises

It is labor alone that is productive: it creates wealth and therewith lays the outward foundations for the inward flowering of man.

— Ludwig von Mises

If, as is generally the case, the heirs are not equal to the demands which life makes on an entrepreneur, the inherited…

— Ludwig von Mises

[T]he essence of so-called war prosperity: it enriches some by what it takes from others. It is not rising wealth but a…

— Ludwig von Mises

The boom is called good business, prosperity, and upswing. Its unavoidable aftermath, the readjustment of conditions to the real data of the…

— Ludwig von Mises

Economic prosperity is not so much a material problem; it is, first of all, an intellectual, spiritual, and moral problem.

— Ludwig von Mises

A short time ago the demagogues blamed capitalism for the poverty of the masses. Today they rather blame capitalism for the "affluence"…

— Ludwig von Mises

People must learn that the accumulation of wealth by the successful conduct of business is the corollary of the improvement of their…

— Ludwig von Mises

The desire for an increase of wealth can be satisfied through exchange, which is the only method possible in a capitalist economy,…

— Ludwig von Mises

Many pioneers of these industrial changes, it is true, became rich. But they acquired their wealth by supplying the public with motor…

— Ludwig von Mises

What can prevent the coming of totalitarian socialism is only a thorough change in ideologies. What we need is an open positive…

— Ludwig von Mises

The philosophy underlying the system of progressive taxation is that the income and wealth of the well-to-do classes can be freely tapped.…

— Ludwig von Mises

To the grumbler who complains about the unfairness of the market system only one piece of advice can be given: If you…

— Ludwig von Mises

The boom produces impoverishment. But still more disastrous are its moral ravages. It makes people despondent and dispirited. The more optimistic they…

— Ludwig von Mises

War is harmful, not only to the conquered but to the conqueror. Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the…

— Ludwig von Mises

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

“Granted, many of them replied, that socialism may not result in riches for all but rather in a smaller production of wealth;…

— Ludwig von Mises

The wealth of the well-to-do of an industrial society is both the cause and effect of the masses' well-being.

— Ludwig von Mises

War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings...but no one has for those reasons yet sought to…

— Ludwig von Mises