Committed Quote by Lee R. Raymond

Market society is a game where you win by making sure other people are better off with you than without you.

— David Schmidtz

The market, if it can be kept honest and competitive, does provide very strong incentives for work effort and productive contributions. In their absence,…

— Arthur Melvin Okun

It's not a meritocracy until everyone starts with the same opportunities, is it?

— Laura Wade

When people are judged by merit, not connections, then the best and brightest can lead the country, people will work hard, and the entire…

— Barack Obama

To impress people as much as we would wish, we would first need to successfully adopt each of their value systems

— Derren Brown

Private markets, where everyone has an equal opportunity is the only system that works.

— Trish Regan

You have to let the market reward effort and skill. But a system in which inequality of incomes constantly increases over time is worrisome.

— Timothy Noah

I am convinced that if the market system were the result of deliberate human design, and if the people guided by the price changes…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

Competition on the market aims at assigning to every individual that function in the social system in which he can render to all his…

— Ludwig von Mises

We live in a system that espouses merit, equality, and a level playing field, but exalts those with wealth, power, and celebrity, however gained.

— Derrick Bell

The system that enables the most people to earn the most success is free enterprise, by matching up people's skills, interests, and abilities. In…

— Arthur C. Brooks

The thing about markets, and I think the thing people don't understand about that, is markets are not kind, but they're very efficient. So…

— Randy Neugebauer