Leon Trotsky Quotes

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.

It’s hard to be a fan of the free market these days when the free market has just driven the economy over the cliff.

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.

A market system is not a profit system, it's a profit-and-loss system.

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

I do believe in the free market.

Under capitalism each individual engages in economic planning.

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

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

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

Capitalism is the engine that has grown economies.

A properly functioning free market system does not spring spontaneously from society's soil as crabgrass springs from suburban lawns. Rather, it is a complex creation of laws and mores... Capitalism is a government program.

Though my heart may be left of centre, I have always known that the only economic system that works is a market economy... This is the only natural economy, the only kind that makes sense, the only one that can lead to prosperity, because it is the only one that reflects the nature of life itself.

In the history of modern capitalism, crises are the norm, not the exception.

Capitalism is an art form.

The development of capitalism consists in everyone having the right to serve the consumer better or more cheaply.

The market economy is the social system of the division of labor under private ownership of the means of production. Everybody acts on his own behalf; but everybodys actions aim at the satisfaction of other peoples needs as well as at the satisfaction of his own. Everybody in acting serves his fellow citizens.

We are so accustomed to the miracle of private enterprise that we habitually take it for granted. But how does private industry solve the incredibly complex problem of turning out tens of thousands of different goods and services in the proportions in which they are wanted by the public? ... It solves these problems through the institutions of private property, competition, the free market, and the existence of money - through the interrelations of supply and demand, costs and prices, profits and losses.

Capitalism is not a Ponzi scheme. Capitalism is a scheme of free markets.

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.

Our elected officials would do well to remember that the most prosperous countries are those that allow consumers - not governments - to direct the use of resources. Allowing the government to pick winners and losers hurts almost everyone, especially our poorest citizens.

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 prefer leaving things to the market as much as possible.

So I think one can say on empirical grounds - not because of some philosophical principle - that you can't have democracy unless you have a market economy.