Private Enterprise Quotes

46 quotes by 40 authors

Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people… — Winston Churchill
When a private enterprise fails, it is closed down; when a government enterprise fails, it is expanded. Isn't that exactly what's been happening with drugs? — Milton Friedman
Private enterprise creates; government destroys. That is the great economic lesson of our times and all times. — Llewellyn Rockwell
Education is here placed among the articles of public care, not that it would be proposed to take its ordinary branches out of the hands… — Thomas Jefferson
Private enterprise manages so much better all the concerns to which it is equal. — Thomas Jefferson
There can be no freedom of the individual, no democracy, without the capital system, the profit system, the private enterprise system. These are, in the… — Russell Cornell Leffingwell
Government-to-government foreign aid promotes statism, centralized planning, socialism, dependence, pauperization, inefficiency, and waste. It prolongs the poverty it is designed to cure. Voluntary private investment… — Henry Hazlitt
Capitalism is chronically unstable.Boom and bust has always marked capitalism in the United States. There were panics in 1785, 1791, 1819, 1857, 1869, 1873, 1907,… — John Kenneth Galbraith
The problem isn't that conservatives are wrong about the efficiency of markets or the creativity of enterprise. It's that they have made false idols of… — Joe Conason
The trouble with the Labour Party is that they don't really believe in Socialism, but they cannot wholeheartedly approve of private enterprise either. — Jo Grimond
Small and mid-sized companies in this country historically have been responsible for creating the overwhelming majority of new jobs in the private sector. One of… — Michael Milken
Respecters of private property are really obligated to oppose much that is done today in the name of private enterprise, for corporate organization and monopoly… — Richard M. Weaver
The sole function of Government is to bring about a condition of affairs favorable to the beneficial development of private enterprise. — Herbert Hoover
The real question of government versus private enterprise is argued on too philosophical and abstract a basis. Theoretically, planning may be good. But nobody has… — Richard P. Feynman
The New Deals enmity for that system of free and competitive private enterprise which we call capitalism was fundamental. — Garet Garrett
Private enterprise manages better all that to which it is equal. Anarchism declares that private enterprise, whether individual or cooperative, is equal to all the… — Voltairine de Cleyre
A newspaper is a private enterprise owing nothing whatsoever to the public, which grants it no franchise. It is therefore affected with no public interest. — William Peter Hamilton
Some [intentional communities], like the Shakers and the Harmony Society, have endured for a century or even longer. The Hutterians, to cite an extreme example,… — Benjamin Zablocki
The Great Depression in the United States, far from being a sign of the inherent instability of the private enterprise system, is a testament to… — Milton Friedman
Now, Iâ€™m not saying that we donâ€™t need rules in society. But the question of who makes the rules and on what basis becomes supremely… — Jeffrey Tucker

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