Analysis Quote by Ludwig von Mises

The market economy-capitalism-is a social system of consumers' supremacy.

— Ludwig von Mises

The consumers are merciless. They never buy in order to benefit a less efficient producer and to protect him against the consequences of his…

— Ludwig von Mises

When we call a capitalist society a consumers democracy we mean that the power to dispose of the means of production, which belongs to…

— Ludwig von Mises

The capitalist system of production is an economic democracy in which every penny gives a right to vote. The consumers are the sovereign people.…

— Ludwig von Mises

[The consumer is] the supreme mover of economic order... for whom all goods are made and towards whom all economic activity is directed.

— Kenneth E. Boulding

Critics of consumer capitalism like to think that consumers are manipulated and controlled by those who seek to sell them things, but for the…

— James Surowiecki

“If Capitalism improves the economic position all round, it is of secondary importance that it does not raise all to the same level. A…

— Ludwig von Mises

The democracy of the market consists in the fact that people themselves make their choices and that no dictator has the power to force…

— Ludwig von Mises

What is called 'capitalism' might more accurately be called consumerism. It is the consumers who call the tune, and those capitalists who want to…

— Thomas Sowell

[Capitalism is] that commercial system in which supply immediately answers to demand, and in which everybody seems to be thoroughly dissatisfied and unable to…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The development of capitalism consists in everyone having the right to serve the consumer better or more cheaply.

— Ludwig von Mises

The market steers the capitalistic economy. It directs each individual's activities into those channels in which he best serves the wants of his fellow-men.…

— Ludwig von Mises