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Entrepreneur Quotes by Ludwig von Mises
- The standard of living of the common man is higher in those countries which have the greatest number of wealthy entrepreneurs.
- Those fighting for free enterprise and free competition do not defend the interests of those rich today. They want a free hand left to unknown…
- When we call a capitalist society a consumers democracy we mean that the power to dispose of the means of production, which belongs to the…
- The direction of all economic affairs is in the market society a task of the entrepreneurs. Theirs is the control of production. They are at…
- The interventionists do not approach the study of economic matters with scientific disinterestedness. Most of them are driven by an envious resentment against those whose…
- The capitalist system of production is an economic democracy in which every penny gives a right to vote. The consumers are the sovereign people. The…
- It is not the fault of the entrepreneurs that the consumers,the people, the common man,prefer liquor to Bibles and detective stories to serious books, and…
- Neither the entrepreneurs nor the farmers nor the capitalists determine what has to be produced. The consumers do that.
- The consumers suffer when the laws of the country prevent the most efficient entrepreneurs from expanding the sphere of their activities. What made some enterprises…
- The riches of the rich are not the cause of the poverty of anybody; the process that makes some people rich is, on the contrary,…
- Laissez faire does not mean: let soulless mechanical forces operate. It means: let individuals choose how they want to cooperate in the social division of…
- The only source from which an entrepreneurs profits stem is his ability to anticipate better than other people the future demand of the consumers.
- Economic progress is the work of the savers, who accumulate capital, and of the entrepreneurs, who turn capital to new uses.
- What is called economic progress is the joint effect of the activities of the three progressive groups-or classes-of the savers, the scientist-inventors, and the entrepreneurs,…
More Entrepreneur Quotes
- All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. — Aristotle
- It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final. — Roger Babson
- Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual. — Natalie Clifford Barney
- I've always defined myself not as a cartoonist , but as an entrepreneur. That was true before I tried cartooning. I always… — Scott Adams
- Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open. — Alexander Graham Bell
- I strongly believe that missionaries make better products. They care more. For a missionary, it's not just about the business. There has… — Jeff Bezos
- The common question that gets asked in business is, 'why?' That's a good question, but an equally valid question is, 'why not?' — Jeff Bezos
- A company shouldn't get addicted to being shiny, because shiny doesn't last. — Jeff Bezos
- Sometimes it is better to lose and do the right thing than to win and do the wrong thing. — Tony Blair
- I know how to make decisions and stand up to the criticism every day. — Michael Bloomberg
- The idea that there is one kind of African is, of course, ridiculous. Sometimes African entrepreneurs want to kill you because you… — Bono
- We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we… — Louis D. Brandeis