“The economic miracle that has been the United States was not produced by socialized enterprises, by government-unon-industry cartels or by centralized economic planning. It was produced by private enterprises in a profit-and-loss system. And losses were at least as important in weeding out failures, as profits in fostering successes. Let government succor failures, and we shall be headed for stagnation and decline.” Has BeensImportantStatesGovernmentLossUnitedLibertyUnited StatesEconomicIndustryLetting GoCapitalismMiracleProfitLibertarianPlanningEnterpriseWeedDeclineLibertarianismFree MarketStagnationPrivate EnterpriseFosteringCartelsProfit And LossCentralized Government Author:Milton Friedman
“The Western societies which espouse free market capitalism survive by the pursuit of greed and, in their own way, like Communism, throw into leadership men and women (mostly men) who know how to gain, exert and manipulate power.” KnowsMenWayLeadershipBusinessKnow HowMen And WomenCapitalismGainsEconomicsWesternGreedPursuitCommunismFree MarketManipulateWestern SocietyFree Market Capitalism Author:Davis McCaughey
“Some people continue to defend trickle-down theories which assume that economic growth, encouraged by a free market, will inevitably succeed in bringing about greater justice and inclusiveness in the world. This opinion, which has never been confirmed by the facts, expresses a crude and naive trust in the goodness of those wielding economic power and in the sacralized workings of the prevailing economic system.” PeopleWorldFactsPoliticsGrowthJusticeOpinionEconomyGreaterEconomicTheorySucceedGoodnessCapitalismAssumingNaiveFree MarketEconomic GrowthCrudePrevailingEconomic SystemsMarket EconomyEconomic PowerEconomic InequalityEconomic JusticeApostolicTrickle DownFree Market CapitalismInclusivenessEconomic EqualityTrickle Down EconomicsFree EconomySupply Side EconomicsWielding Power Author:Pope Francis
“People think what's in the US today is capitalism. It's not even close to capitalism. Capitalism doesn't have a central bank, capitalism doesn't have taxes, it doesn't have regulations; capitalism is just voluntary transactions. What they have in the US today I call crapitalism. But it's sad that so many people are confused and they think, 'Oh that's free markets in the US', when it's one of the least free market countries on earth.” PeopleThinkingCountryTodayEarthTaxesCapitalismConfusedRegulationFree MarketTransactionsCentral Banks Author:Jeff Berwick
“The free market is notorious for distributing resources in a highly unequal manner, with great concentrations of wealth at the top and poverty at the bottom. Our social programs, modest compared to those of many other Western countries, play an important role in redistributing some of those resources from the haves to the have-nots.” ImportantCountryPlaySocialWealthPovertyRolesCapitalismResourcesProgramWesternBottomConcentrationModestFree MarketNotoriousSocial ProgramsConcentration Of Wealth Author:Linda McQuaig
“Free market capitalism is the best path to prosperity!” PathCapitalismProsperityFree MarketFree Market Capitalism Book:Lawrence Kudlow: Volume I Source: Lawrence Kudlow: Volume I
“The man who is not a socialist at twenty has no heart, but if he is still a socialist at forty he has no head.” IfsMenHeartStillsHe ManCapitalismTwentiesFortySocialistFree Market Author:Aristide Briand
“Capitalism, Socialism, Fascism, Communism, the Free-Market .... What good are these approaches for? These attempts are made by men who are cerebral insufficient. I'm trying to give you back your brain, which they took away from you in schools and in your upbringing. I'm trying to show you how the world works. So if you want a better world, you have to get up off your ass and make it better” IfsMenWorldWantGivingTryingMadeShowsSchoolBrainApproachCapitalismIntellectSocialismAssGet UpCommunismChanging The WorldFascismFree MarketUpbringingStupid PeopleAway From YouInsufficientCerebralFuturistHeal The WorldEducated Fools Author:Jacque Fresco
“A properly functioning free market system does not spring spontaneously from society's soil as crabgrass springs from suburban lawns. Rather, it is a complex creation of laws and mores... Capitalism is a government program.” DoeGovernmentLawCreationSpringCapitalismProgramComplexesLibertarianSoilFree MarketLawnsGovernment Programs Author:George Will
“We need to revise our economic thinking to give full value to our natural resources. This revised economics will stabilize both the theory and the practice of free-market capitalism. It will provide business and public policy with a powerful new tool for economic development, profitability, and the promotion of the public good.” ThinkingNeedsGivingValuesNaturalPowerfulPracticeEconomicPolicyTheoryDevelopmentCapitalismResourcesEconomicsToolsFree MarketPromotionNatural ResourcesPublic PolicyEconomic DevelopmentPublic GoodProfitabilityFree Market CapitalismEconomic Resources Author:Paul Hawken
“..where effective competition can be created, it is a better way of guiding individual efforts than any other... regards competition as superior not only because it is in most circumstances the most efficient method known but even more because it is the only method by which our activities can be adjusted to each other without coercive or arbitrary intervention of authority.” WayIndividualEffortKnownCircumstancesActivityAuthorityCapitalismRegardMethodCompetitionSuperiorsEfficientFree MarketArbitraryInterventionBetter WaysIndividual Effort Author:Friedrich August von Hayek
“Planning leads to dictatorship because dictatorship is the most effective instrument of coercion and the enforcement of ideals and, as such, essential if central planning on a large scale is to be possible.” IfsEssentialsCapitalismIdealsInstrumentsScalesPlanningDictatorshipEnforcementFree MarketCoercionLarge ScaleCentral Planning Author:Friedrich August von Hayek
“Money is one of the greatest instruments of freedom ever invented by man. It is money which in existing society opens an astounding range of choice to the poor man, a range greater than that which not many generations ago was open to the wealthy” MenChoicesPoorGreaterGenerationsCapitalismInstrumentsRangeWealthyFree MarketPoor Man Author:Friedrich August von Hayek
“What our generation has forgotten is that the system of private property is the most important guarantee of freedom, not only for those who own property, but scarcely less for those who do not. It is only because the control of the means of production is divided among many people acting independently that nobody has complete power over us, that we as individuals can decide what to do with ourselves.” PeopleMeanImportantIndividualActingGenerationsCapitalismPropertyForgottenProductionsGuaranteesDividedFree MarketPrivate PropertyOur GenerationRoad To Serfdom Author:Friedrich August von Hayek
“And who will deny that a world in which the wealthy are powerful is still a better world than one in which only the already powerful can acquire wealth?” WorldStillsWealthPowerfulCapitalismDenyAcquireWealthyFree Market Author:Friedrich August von Hayek
“The younger generation of today has grown up in a world in which in school and press the spirit of commercial enterprise has been represented as disreputable and the making of profit as immoral, where to employ a hundred people is represented as exploitation but to command the same number as honorable.” PeopleWorldHas BeensTodaySchoolSpiritNumbersGenerationsHundredCapitalismPressesProfitCommandEnterpriseExploitationHonorableImmoralFree MarketYounger Generation Author:Friedrich August von Hayek
“Once you admit that the individual is merely a means to serve the ends of the higher entity called society or the nation, most of those features of totalitarianism which horrify us follow of necessity” MeanEndsIndividualNationsHigherCapitalismFeaturesEntityFree MarketTotalitarianismRoad To Serfdom Author:Friedrich August von Hayek
“Because it is such a huge crisis, because it puts us on a firm science-based deadline, it's a once-in-a-century opportunity to build a better society and address raging inequality, create huge numbers of jobs, rebuild our public infrastructure. But, we can't do it unless we break every single rule in the free-market playbook. Which is why the worst people in the world all deny climate change.” PeopleWorldJobsOpportunityNumbersBreakWorstCenturyHugeCapitalismCrisisClimateClimate ChangeDenyRageInequalityFirmAddressesFree MarketInfrastructureDeadlineHuge NumbersPlaybooks Author:Naomi Klein
“Now a great debate has been born. The thesis is Democratic Socialism. The antithesis is free-market capitalism. The Obama Democrats have posed the challenge. It is now up to the Republicans to pick it up and fight along these lines.” Has BeensFightingBornChallengesLinesRepublicanPicksCapitalismDemocraticDemocratDebateSocialismFree MarketThesisAntithesisDemocratic SocialismFree Market Capitalism Author:Dick Morris
“Free market capitalism is far more than economic theory. It is the engine of social mobility-the highway to the American Dream.” DreamPoliticsSocialEconomicTheoryCapitalismEnginesAmerican DreamHighwaysFree MarketMobilityEconomic TheoryFree Market CapitalismSocial Mobility Author:George W. Bush
“The greatness of America is capitalism, free market capitalism. The exceptionalism of American business.” AmericaGreatnessCapitalismFree MarketExceptionalismAmerican BusinessFree Market CapitalismGreatness Of America Author:Fran Tarkenton
“But in spite of its bent toward self-interest, even with its excesses and inequalities, capitalism has a historic opportunity to create shared wealth that can benefit every person on the globe. I am convinced that our best hope for moving the poverty needle toward financial wellness once and for all lies with the best practices of the free market.” WealthBusinessPovertyCapitalismCharityAltruismFree Market Author:Robert D. Lupton
“The essential difference between rich societies and poor societies does not stem from any greater effort the former devote to work, nor even from any greater technological knowledge the former hold. Instead it arises mainly from the fact that rich nations possess a more extensive network of capital goods wisely invested from an entrepreneurial standpoint. These goods consists of machines, tools, computers, buildings, semi-manufactured goods, software, etc., and they exist due to prior savings of the nation's citizens. In other words, comparatively rich societies possess more wealth because they have more time accumulated in the form of capital goods, which places them closer in time to the achievement of much more valuable goals.” FreedomLibertyPovertyCapitalismEconomicsLibertarianAnarchyFree MarketPrivate PropertyFree TradeVoluntaryismLaissez FaireNon Aggression PrincipleAnarcho CapitalismAustrian School Of Economics Author:Jesús Huerta de Soto
“Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime. Steal a fish from one guy and give it to another--and keep doing that on a daily basis--and you'll make the first guy pissed off, but you'll make the second guy lazy and dependent on you. Then you can tell the second guy that the first guy is greedy for wanting to keep the fish he caught. Then the second guy will cheer for you to steal more fish. Then you can prohibit anyone from fishing without getting permission from you. Then you can expand the racket, stealing fish from more people and buying the loyalty of others. Then you can get the recipients of the stolen fish to act as your hired thugs. Then you can ... well, you know the rest.” GovernmentEvilPoliticsFreedomLibertyViolenceCapitalismSlaveryLibertarianSocialismCommunismAnarchyTaxationFree MarketTheftCoercionSuperstitionCollectivismStatismVoluntaryismLaissez FaireNon Aggression PrincipleAnarcho CapitalismAustrian School Of EconomicsInitiation Of ForceVoluntaryist Author:Larken Rose
“A man who chooses between drinking a glass of milk and a glass of a solution of potassium cyanide does not choose between two beverages; he chooses between life and death. A society that chooses between capitalism and socialism does not choose between two social systems; it chooses between social cooperation and the disintegration of society. Socialism is not an alternative to capitalism; it is an alternative to any system under which men can live as human beings.” WarGovernmentLawEvilPoliticsPeaceFreedomLibertyRightsViolenceSocietyCapitalismTradePropertyLibertarianSocialismCommunismAnarchyIndividualismFreeFree MarketCoercionProperty RightsCollectivismStatismVoluntaryismIndividual RightsMarketsLaissez FaireNon Aggression PrincipleAncapAnarcho CapitalismAustrian School Of Economics Author:Ludwig von Mises
“My take on socialism is this: Socialism only seems to work when you don't fully implement it, when you keep enough capitalism around to pay socialism's bills, at least for a time. It's the difference between milking the cow and killing it. Socialism has no theory of wealth creation; it's just a destructive, envy-driven fantasy about redistributing it after something else (and somebody else) creates it first.” GovernmentEvilPoliticsFreedomLibertyDemocracyCapitalismTradeLibertarianCommunismAnarchyIndividualismFreeTaxationFree MarketTheftMafiaCoercionCollectivismStatismLegalPlunderVoluntaryismMarketsLaissez FaireNon Aggression PrincipleAncapAnarcho CapitalismMob Rule Author:Lawrence W. Reed
“Socialism is not really an option in the material world. There can be no collective ownership of anything materially scarce. One or another faction will assert control in the name of society. Inevitably, the faction will be the most powerful in society -- that is, the state. This is why all attempts to create socialism in scarce goods or services devolve into totalitarian systems of top-down planning.” GovernmentEvilPoliticsIndividualFreedomLibertyCapitalismEconomicsTradeLibertarianSocialismCommunismAnarchyIndividualismFreeFree MarketCoercionCollectivismStatismVoluntaryismMarketsLaissez FaireNon Aggression PrincipleAncapAnarcho CapitalismAustrian School Of EconomicsCollectiveAuthoritarianRegulationsVoluntaryist Author:Jeffrey Tucker
“State is the name of the coldest of all cold monsters. Coldly it lies; and this lie slips from its mouth: 'I, the state, am the people.” GovernmentEvilPoliticsFreedomLibertyViolenceCapitalismLibertarianSocialismCommunismAnarchyFascismThievesFree MarketGangTheftMafiaCoercionCollectivismStatismVoluntaryismLaissez FaireCriminalNon Aggression Principle Author:Friedrich Nietzsche
“Rhetorical bombast, music and song resound, banners wave, flowers and colors serve as symbols, and the leaders seek to attach their followers to their own person. Liberalism has nothing to do with all this. It has no party flower and no party color, no party song and no party idols, no symbols and no slogans. It has the substance and the arguments. These must lead it to victory.” WarGovernmentEvilPoliticsPeaceFreedomLibertySocietyCapitalismTradeLibertarianSocialismCommunismLiberalismNationalismAnarchyFascismFreeTaxationFree MarketTheftCoercionStatismVoluntaryismLaissez FaireNon Aggression Principle Author:Ludwig von Mises
“What ranks above all else for economic and political reconstruction is a radical change of ideologies. Economic prosperity is not so much a material problem; it is, first of all, an intellectual, spiritual, and moral problem.” GovernmentEvilPoliticsFreedomLibertyMoralityEthicsCapitalismEconomicsTradeLibertarianSocialismAnarchyMoralsFreeFree MarketCoercionCollectivismImmoralityStatismVoluntaryismLaissez FaireAncapAnarcho CapitalismAustrian School Of Economics Author:Ludwig von Mises
“Price controls almost invariably produce black markets, where prices are not only higher than the legally permitted prices, but also higher than they would be in a free market, since the legal risks must also be compensated. While small-scale black markets may function in secrecy, large-scale black markets usually require bribes to officials to look the other way.” GovernmentEvilFreedomLibertyCapitalismSocialismAnarchyFree MarketCoercionStatismVoluntaryismAncapAnarcho CapitalismAustrian School Of EconomicsRegulationsAustrian Economics Author:Thomas Sowell