Ludwig von Mises Quotes

It is not by augmenting the capital of the country, but by rendering a greater part of that capital active and productive than would otherwise be so, that the most judicious operations of banking can increase the industry of the country.

My greatest regret is selling my company.

Whether an instrument shall be regarded as productive capital or not depends entirely on its being used, or not, by some productive labourer…

There are millions of business ideas out there but only a tiny percentage of businesses succeed.

A peculiarity of capital is that it cannot be employed productively without benefiting the community in which it is used.

Capital must work, as it were, in concert with industry; and this concurrence is what I call the productive agency of capital.

Business is not financial science, it's about trading.. buying and selling. It's about creating a product or service so good that people will pay for it.

Your biggest challenge as an entrepreneur is not concealing your idea from others or keeping your idea a secret, it is actually convincing people that you're not crazy and that you can pull this off.

What is a business? It's simply an idea that makes someone else's life better

I probably have traveled and walked into more variety stores than anybody in America. I am just trying to get ideas, any kind of ideas that will help our company. Most of us don't invent ideas. We take the best ideas from someone else.

Would it be anything like a literary disaster if Gore Vidal were to fall silent? Easy. No. In fact, there is something to be said for the idea.

Start-ups should be based on radical ideas. There should be a high failure rate for start-ups, because if there isn't their ideas aren't bold enough.

I always write and create. I'm never not creating. I'm always creating a show, every year, whether it gets picked up or not. I always sell a pilot or an idea. I like to be in control.

The natural state of a start-up is to die; most start-ups require multiple miracles in their early days to escape this fate.

I have found, whether you have a tiny business or a big business, if you don't jump on something right away, it's like a bird flying by-it flies off.

Money doesn't excite me - my ideas excite me.

Everybody acts as if they have free will. They act as if they can make these decisions; do they know they don't? I think there's been some back-down on the idea that everything is determined.

Organizing facts in terms of principles and ideas from which they may be inferred is the only known way of reducing the quick rate of loss of human memory.

Ideas are a dime a dozen. People who implement them are priceless.

Do you believe in spirits? Or ghosts?...Yes, I do. I believe in ghosts....They're the ones who haunt us. The ones who have left us behind." "Vivian has come back to the idea that the people who matter in our lives stay with us, haunting our ordinary moments. They're with us in the grocery store, as we turn the corner, chat with a friend. They rise up through the pavement; we absorb them through our soles." "The things that matter stay with you, seep into your skin.

Ideas, more than money, are really the currency for success.

We can spend our days bemoaning our losses, or we can grow from them. Ultimately the choice is ours. We can be victims of circumstance or masters of our own fate, but make no mistake, we cannot be both. The Walk - Epilogue Page 288

Cynicism was a one-way path, and once taken the way back was lost forever.