“Bin Laden comes out of a business background - he studied public administration and economics at university, and he worked for his family company, which was obviously a rather successful enterprise.” CompanySuccessfulEconomicsUniversityBackgroundsAdministrationEnterpriseBin Laden Author:Peter Bergen
“The inhabitant of London could order by telephone, sipping his morning tea in bed, the various products of the whole earth -- he could at the same time and by the same means adventure his wealth in the natural resources and new enterprise of any quarter of the world -- he could secure forthwith, if he wished, cheap and comfortable means of transit to any country or climate without passport or other formality.” IfsWorldMeanCountryWholeEarthOrderPeaceNaturalWealthMorningAdventureProductsBedComfortableResourcesEconomicsClimateVariousLondonSecureTeaEnterpriseQuartersTelephonesNatural ResourcesPassportsFormalitySipping Author:John Maynard Keynes
“It's a fundamental aspect of the free enterprise system and economics: If there's no penalty associated with increased costs, why not lay on increased costs?” IfsCostAspectEconomicsFundamentalsLaysEnterpriseWhy NotPenaltiesFree Enterprise Author:John McCain
“The orthodox doctrines of economics which were dominant in the last quarter of the nineteenth century had a clear message. They supported laisser faire, free trade, the gold standard, and the universally advantageous effects of the pursuit of profit by competitive private enterprise.” LastsClearEffectsCenturyMessagesStandardsEconomicsGoldTradeProfitPursuitDoctrineEnterpriseOrthodoxQuartersDominantNineteenth CenturyFree TradePrivate EnterpriseGold Standard Book:Economic heresies: some old-fashioned questions in economic theory Source: Economic heresies: some old-fashioned questions in economic theory
“Pollution and overuse of resources stem directly from the failure of government to defend private property. If property rights were to be defended adequately, we would find that here, as in other areas of our economy and society, private enterprise and modern technology would come not as a curse to mankind but as its salvation.” IfsGovernmentTechnologyEconomyRightsModernMankindResourcesAreasEconomicsSalvationPropertyCurseEnterprisePollutionStemPrivate PropertyProperty RightsPrivate EnterpriseModern Technology Author:Murray Rothbard
“There are some things in the world we can't change- gravity, entropy, the speed of light, and our biological nature that requires clean air, clean water, clean soil, clean energy and biodiversity for our health and well-being. Protecting the biosphere should be our highest priority or else we sicken and die. Other things, like capitalism, free enterprise, the economy, currency, the market, are not forces of nature, we invented them. They are not immutable and we can change them. It makes no sense to elevate economics above the biosphere.” WorldShouldWellsLightDiesEnergyForceWaterEconomyAirHighestCapitalismEconomicsCleanSpeedPrioritiesWell BeingSoilEnterpriseGravityCurrencyCan't ChangeEnvironmentalistFree EnterpriseBiodiversityEntropyForces Of NatureClean EnergyClean WaterSpeed Of LightBiosphereClean Air Author:David Suzuki
“The capitalist workplace is one of the most profoundly undemocratic institutions on the face of the Earth. Workers have no say over decisions affecting them. If workers sat on the board of directors of democratically operated self-managed enterprises, they wouldn't vote for the wildly unequal distribution of profits to benefit a few and for cutbacks for the many.” IfsSelfEarthFacesDecisionDirectorsBenefitsCapitalismEconomicsVoteManagementInstitutionsWorkersProfitInequalityBoardsSatEnterpriseVotingCapitalistWorkplaceDistributionBoard Of DirectorsCutbacks Author:Richard D. Wolff
“Every nation on the Earth that embraces market economics and the free enterprise system is pulling millions of its people out of poverty. The free enterprise system creates prosperity, not denies it.” PeopleEarthNationsPovertyMillionsEconomicsEmbraceProsperityDenyEnterprisePullingFree Enterprise Author:Marco Rubio
“I learned a good deal about economics, and about America, from the author of the Reagan tax reforms - the great Jack Kemp. What gave Jack that incredible enthusiasm was his belief in the possibilities of free people, in the power of free enterprise and strong communities to overcome poverty and despair. We need that same optimism right now.” PeopleNeedsAmericaBeliefStrongCommunityDealsPovertyPossibilityRight NowTaxesDespairEconomicsOptimismOvercomingIncrediblesEnthusiasmReformEnterpriseFree EnterpriseTax ReformStrong Community Author:Paul Ryan
“Those fighting for free enterprise and free competition do not defend the interests of those rich today. They want a free hand left to unknown men who will be the entrepreneurs of tomorrow.” MenWantHandsTodayFightingLeftInterestLibertyRichEconomicTomorrowEconomicsEntrepreneurCompetitionEnterpriseFree Enterprise Book:Human action: a treatise on economics Source: Human action: a treatise on economics
“A traffic jam is a collision between free enterprise and socialism. Free enterprise produces automobiles faster than socialism can build roads and road capacity.” LibertyProduceCapacityEconomicsLibertarianSocialismFasterEnterpriseLibertarianismTrafficAutomobileJamCollisionFree EnterpriseTraffic Jam Author:Andrew Joseph Galambos
“The treasury could fill old bottles with banknotes and bury them..and leave it to private enterprises on well-tried principles of laissez-faire to dig the notes up again.” WellsPrinciplesEconomicsNotesEnterpriseBottlesTreasuryLaissez FairePrivate Enterprise Author:John Maynard Keynes