Business Quote by Henry Hazlitt

Production for sale in a market in which the object is to realize the maximum profit is the essential feature of a capitalist world-economy.…

— Immanuel Wallerstein

Competition always tends to bring about the most economical and efficient method of production. Those who are most successful in this competition will acquire…

— Henry Hazlitt

We do not assert that the capitalist mode of economic calculation guarantees the absolutely best solution of the allocation of factors of production. Such…

— Ludwig von Mises

The idea that in the system, if you manage it in an optimum way, all of the constituent parts of the system also win,…

— John Mackey

“If economics were only about profit maximization, it would be just another name for business administration. It is a social discipline, and society has…

— Dani Rodrik

There is but one means available to improve the material conditions of mankind: to accelerate the growth of capital accumulated as against the growth…

— Ludwig von Mises

“To maximise output, every organisation will strive to obtain its necessary raw materials, labour and machinery at the lowest possible cost and combine them…

— Alain de Botton

The only way to create prosperity is to do more with less. In economic terms, an increase in productivity is an increase in the…

— Joe Lonsdale

Everybody's doing it. In capitalism, you try to get the highest price you can for a product.

— Martin Shkreli

This present system by which industry is motivated exclusively by the quest for maximal profits - though it may have helped a great deal…

— Benjamin Spock

One thing that is clearly not maximized by free markets is equality. I am talking not about that pale substitute for equality known as…

— Steven Weinberg

Capitalism believes that its remit is exclusively to make maximum short-term profits.

— Jeremy Grantham