Accounting Quote by John Rawls

If a private investor is raising his hand and saying, 'I don't have the conditions with which to work,' then the government has the…

— Ildefonso Guajardo Villarreal

The first law of the market is to make the largest possible profit from other people's labor or go out of business. Profitability rather…

— Michael Parenti

Without market prices for capital goods, accounting is not possible. You don't know if you are making money or losing money, saving resources or…

— Llewellyn Rockwell

The government needs to work to improve how markets perform.

— Luis Videgaray Caso

“Politicians have often declared that unbridled competition among financial intermediaries promotes failures that will harm the public. Although the evidence that competition does this…

— Frederic Mishkin Mishkin Frederic

You can't have a market without government, because governments create the rules of competition and enforce fairness in the markets, and they build the…

— Douglas Massey

“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

Markets are useful instruments for organizing productive activity. But unless we want to let the market rewrite the norms that govern social institutions, we…

— Anonymous

Government can't create wealth, but it can create the conditions for private enterprise to flourish.

— Bill Owens

Markets are imperfect. So you do need regulation, knowing that the regulators are also human.

— George Soros

When individual enterprise is free and unhampered, profit-and-loss calculations set precise limits to a businessman's temptations to expand his services... a government valuable they…

— Hans F. Sennholz

Markets are not static entities that are 'intervened' in (for good or bad) but are outcomes of public and private interactions.

— Mariana Mazzucato