“We got government off the backs of the people of India, particularly off the backs of India's entrepreneurs. We introduced more competition, both internal competition and external competition. We simplified and rationalized the tax system. We made risk-taking much more attractive.” PeopleMadeGovernmentRiskTaxesIndiaEntrepreneurCompetitionAttractiveInternalsRisk-takingTax System Author:Manmohan Singh
“The easy way to make money is to get special political privilege. From the beginning of time, business has cozied up to government and gotten restrictions on competition and subsidies and stuff.” WayGovernmentPoliticalEasyStuffSpecialCompetitionPrivilegeMaking MoneyRestrictionEasy WaySubsidies Author:Charles Koch
“Extreme taxation, excessive controls, oppressive government competition with business, frustrated minorities and forgotten Americans are not the products of free enterprise. They are the residue of centralized bureaucracy, of government by a self-anointed elite.” SelfGovernmentPoliticsProductsCompetitionForgottenExtremesEnterpriseMinoritiesElitesFrustratedBureaucracyTaxationFree EnterpriseOppressive Governments Book:The Last Best Hope: The Greatest Speeches of Ronald Reagan Source: The Last Best Hope: The Greatest Speeches of Ronald Reagan
“It certainly makes sense to expand the pulp industry in Indonesia, .. It's clear that it will be a very competitive exporter of pulp to the rest of the world, including China and India. So the interest by the Indonesian government is clearly to establish a really competitive plantation fiber base to support a globally attractive export industry.” WorldGovernmentInterestSupportClearIndustryIndiaCompetitionIncludingChinaMake SenseAttractiveIndonesiaFiberPulpPlantationsChina And India Author:David Walker
“I am firmly opposed to the government entering into any business the major purpose of which is competition with our citizens... for the Federal Government deliberately to go out to build up and expand... a power and manufacturing business is to break down the initiative and enterprise of the American people; it is the destruction of equality of opportunity amongst our people, it is the negation of the ideals upon which our civilization has been based.” PeopleHas BeensGovernmentPurposeOpportunityBreakCitizensCivilizationMajorsIdealsDestructionCompetitionEnterpriseInitiativeFederal GovernmentEnteringBreaking DownManufacturingNegationEquality Of Opportunity Book:March 4, 1929, to October 1, 1931 Source: March 4, 1929, to October 1, 1931
“If we have system in which government is in a position to give large favor - it's human nature to try to get this favor - whether those people are large enterprises, or whether they're small businesses like farmers, or whether they're representatives of any other special group. The only way to prevent that is to force them to engage in competition one with the other.” PeopleIfsWayGivingTryingHumansGovernmentForceGroupsSpecialHuman NaturePositionCompetitionFavorsEnterpriseFarmersRepresentativesSmall Business Author:Milton Friedman
“Antitrust laws ought to be deployed, not against business, but to bust this two-party monopoly, which subverts competition in government and rewards the colluding quislings with sinecures in perpetuity.” TwoGovernmentLawPartyOughtCompetitionRewardsMonopolyAntitrustAntitrust Laws Author:Ilana Mercer
“We know that the only alternative to private competition is government monopoly of enterprise. We know that when government monopolizes production, distribution, and employment, it is no longer the servant of men - it is their master. And, therefore, we know that economic liberty and political liberty are inseparable parts of the same ball of wax - that we must keep them both, or we shall lose them both.” KnowsMenWisdomGovernmentPoliticalPoliticsLosesLibertyEconomyEconomicMastersBallsCompetitionProductionsEmploymentAlternativesServantLiberalismEnterpriseDistributionMonopolyInseparable Author:Benjamin Franklin Fairless
“Bring on those tired, labor-plagued, competition-weary companies and ESOP will breathe new life into them. They will find ESOP better than Geritol. It will revitalize what is wrong with capitalism. It will increase productivity. It will improve labor relations. It will promote economic justice. It will save the economic system. It will make our form of government and our concept of freedom prevail over those who don't agree with us.” WisdomGovernmentFormPoliticsJusticeCompanyEconomyEconomicConceptsCapitalismLaborIncreaseRelationAgreeTiredCompetitionBreatheProductivityLiberalismWearyNew LifeForms Of GovernmentEconomic SystemsEconomic JusticeEsops Author:Russell B. Long