Vaclav Klaus Quotes

I've been dedicated to the proposition that there's been no greater wealth-creation system in the history of mankind than the American free-enterprise system.

I do believe in the free market.

The greatness of America is capitalism, free market capitalism. The exceptionalism of American business.

The historical debate is over. The answer is free-market capitalism.

Capitalism without capital is just an ism.

What is really at stake here is the survival of the kind of economy under which this country has grown great, the free-enterprise system

I believe in the free enterprise system.

I am pro-capitalism, and I am pro-free market.

The free market economy is supposed to be the only path leading to the happiness of humanity by promoting wealth and prosperity, power and influence of nations.

The advantage of the free market system is that people invest their capital, they create jobs by investing their capital, and hopefully they get a return on that investment. I don't think there's anything wrong with good old American capitalism.

The European model is, first, a social and economic system founded on the role of the market, for no computer in the world can process information better than the market.

I don't want the technology of the 1950s, but I want the free market of the 1950s.

Capitalism is not an economic system, but a world-outlook, or rather, a part of a whole world-outlook.

Having seen a non-market economy, I suddenly understood much better what I liked about a market economy.

President Obama insists he's a free-market guy. But you have to wonder whether he understands how a free economy really works.

Capitalism works.

Under capitalism each individual engages in economic planning.

Understanding capitalism is in some ways simple. At its best, capitalism rewards creators, makers and providers: the people and firms that create valuable things for others, like imaginative technologies and good food, cars and drugs.

Capitalism does a number of things very well: it helps create an entrepreneurial spirit; it gets people motivated to come up with new ideas, and that's a good thing.

East and West, most societies have come to believe that competition will produce more prosperity for more people than a planned economy. I share that belief.

I'm a capitalist by conviction and profession. I believe the best economic system is one that rewards entrepreneurship and risk-taking, maximizes customer choice, uses markets to allocate scarce resources and minimizes the regulatory burden on business.

I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.

No economic system is perfect. But the American Free Enterprise system has empowered millions of people in the past. I know, because I saw it with my own eyes.

What we want is to establish the rules of a market economy - not to plan its outcome.

The land of the capitalists…