Bureaucrats Quote by Henry Hazlitt

Private enterprise creates; government destroys. That is the great economic lesson of our times and all times.

— Llewellyn Rockwell

Private enterprise is ceasing to be free enterprise.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Private enterprise manages so much better all the concerns to which it is equal.

— Thomas Jefferson

Private enterprise is ceasing to be free enterprise. Private enterprise, indeed, became too private. It became privileged enterprise, not free enterprise.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

It is a popular error that bureaucracy is less flexible than private enterprise. It may be so in detail, but when large scale adaptations…

— Joan Robinson

When shallow critics denounce the profit motive inherent in our system of private enterprise, they ignore the fact that it is an economic support…

— Anonymous

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 domain and…

— P. J. O'Rourke

Anything that government can do, private enterprise can do for half the cost.

— Milton Friedman

Large government is inevitably inefficient, but so, too, is large private enterprise.

— Richard Cohen

“a private enterprise is a failure, it closes down—unless it can get a government subsidy to keep it going; if a government enterprise fails,…

— Milton Friedman

Executives can no longer hide behind the corporate veil. They need to be accountable for what their companies do, because entities are responsible for…

— Simon Mainwaring

Experience shows that nothing is operated with less economy and with more waste of labor and material of every kind than public services and…

— Ludwig von Mises