Eric S. Raymond Quotes

Competition's a good thing.

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

Competition is good and has served us well.

But in the free market system, you're forced to change.

The essence and the glory of the free market is that individual firms and businesses, competing on the market, provide an ever-changing orchestration of efficient and progressive goods and services: continually improving products and markets, advancing technology, cutting costs, and meeting changing consumer demands as swiftly and as efficiently as possible.

When you get down to the meat and potatoes of genuine capitalism, it is cutthroat, vicious competition, and the consumer always benefits in the end.

The sharper the competition, the better it serves its social function to improve economic production.

The free market is at its best when everybody works in a fishbowl and tells you their point of view.

Capitalism does millions of things better than the alternatives. It balances supply and demand in an elegant way that central planning has never come close to.

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.

The basis of the free market is anytime you can generate revenue or profit, you've created value in excess of the resources you consume in a society. That's probably the most unbiased utility function there is, as opposed to someone's opinion.

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

I've always believed that competition is good for consumers and good for businesses.

Our markets have not achieved their great successes as a result of government fiat, but rather through efforts of competing interests working to meet the demands of investors and to fulfill the promises posed by advancing technology.

Voluntary association produces the free market - where each person can choose among a multitude of possibilities.

Markets are a good thing, and they are the best way of ensuring we have fairness.

I’m a big fan of the free market system but the free market system works [only] when you have robust competition.

We should rely on the markets to move on their own.

The free market economy provides an unparalleled example of a continuing healthy circulation of elites. In this dynamic economy, failure to keep up with competitors, failure to satisfy the demands of consumers in the best possible way, will topple elites quickly and establish new ones who do the job better.

The best industrial policy is competition.

The key to democracy has been the free market economy.

The United States believes that the greatest contribution we can make to world prosperity is the continued advocacy of the magic of the market place.

We need an economy that fosters and encourages competition and innovation.

Competition drives growth in the end as opposed to monopolies.

My worldview says that competition is the consumer's best friend.