Ludwig von Mises Quotes

We're going to make America rich again. We're going to make our country great again. And we need the rich in order to make the great.

We're going to make America wealthy again, because if you don’t do that, it just - it sounds harsh to say, but we have to build up the wealth of our nation.

I'm not worried they're all about the investments we make. I mean, listen, this country - we've got $46,000 or $47,000 of GDP per capita. Now, we've done pretty darn well. We'll do better in the future.

The wealth of a country is in its working people.

Fewness of people, is real poverty; and a Nation wherein are Eight Millions of people, are more than twice as rich as the same scope of Land wherein are but Four

We should be encouraging people to earn a lot of money. I do not know one wealthy person who does not spend money - and most of them employ other people.

The standard of living of the common man is higher in those countries which have the greatest number of wealthy entrepreneurs.

There is but one means available to improve the material conditions of mankind: to accelerate the growth of capital accumulated as against the growth in population. The greater the amount of capital invested per head of the worker, the more and better goods can be produced and consumed. This is what capitalism, the much abused profit system, has brought about and brings about daily anew. Yet, most present-day governments and political parties are eager to destroy this system.

We have reached in this country an amazing degree of general prosperity, with American business on the whole no longer facing an uphill climb.

As it is with an individual, so it is with a nation. One must produce to have, or one will become a have-not.

It is not the actual greatness of national wealth, but its continual increase, which occasions a rise in the wages of labour. It is not, accordingly, in the richest countries, but in the most thriving, or in those which are growing rich the fastest, that the wages of labour are highest. England is certainly, in the present times, a much richer country than any part of North America. The wages of labour, however, are much higher in North America than in any part of England.

Not evil, but good, has come to the race from the accumulation of wealth by those who have the ability and energy that produce it.

When the country prospers, everyone does. In music and in everything.

People are an asset, not a liability. The United States is the most immigrant-friendly nation in the world and the richest country in the world. This is not a coincidence. Those voices that would make us less immigrant-friendly would make us less successful, less prosperous and certainly less American.

I want to bring wealth back to our country so we can afford them.

We have to make our country rich again before we can make it great again.

Man acquires wealth in proportion as he puts his labor to better account.

We should be a rich country again, and if we do that, we can leave Social Security.

Man was born to be rich, or to inevitably grow rich, by the use of his faculties: by the union of thought with nature.

In short, the way to wealth, if you desire it, is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two works, industry and frugality.

Our GDP growth rates are creating - our high GDP growth rates, the success of our economy means we're creating lots of disposable income.

It took Britain half the resources of the planet to achieve its prosperity; how many planets will a country like India require?

Capital brings forth living offspring, or at the least, lays the golden eggs.

The economic welfare of all our people must ultimately stem not from government programs, but from the wealth created by a vigorous private sector.

Americans took a great deal too much credit for creating wealth, when most of the time they had really just been living off natural bounty unprecedented in the history of the world.