Thomas Jefferson Quotes

Free enterprise picks investments successfully by running millions of experiments, and the survival of a product depends on its producing more value per dollar of cost than other products do. Competition ruthlessly prunes products that fail to meet this threshold. The public sector works in the opposite way; it undertakes large investment with virtually no competition.

Competition drives growth in the end as opposed to monopolies.

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

We use competitive markets to arrange for delivery of our food supply.

I believe in markets before mandates.

It doesn't really matter who owns things so long there is enough competition, which means lower pricing, better quality goods, more variety, and an economy where the consumers are the big winners.

It is in all our interests that the government, when buying goods or services, pays the lowest price.

When you have more competition, you have better products and lower prices.

It’s amazing that people don’t understand that the more the market is involved and the smaller the government, the lower the price, the better the distribution, and the higher the quality.

The market is the best garden.

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.

The desire of businessmen for profits is what drives prices down unless forcibly prevented from engaging in price competition, usually by governmental activity.

You shouldn't have an overbearing FCC. Let the market work itself. By allowing companies to compete in an unregulated forum, you're going to allow the faster deployment of new services and new equipment consumers are going to want.

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

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.

I'm not pro-business. I'm pro-free enterprise.

We need to leave to the market and society what they can do well.

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

My fundamental tenets are concerned with freedom of the individual; the market isn't perfect, but it's the best available way of allocating resources.

You'll have lower prices under deregulation than you will through regulation.

I am just as anxious as Mr. Brandeis can be, to have trade regulated by competition as far as possible; but as a matter of fact, competition has broken down hopelessly in this country to adequately control prices, to adequately control quality, and we all know it… it is the theory regarding competition that it will regulate prices and quality; that it will give us reasonable prices and superior quality. That is a beautiful theory. But if this theory has ever corresponded to the facts in the past (and this I doubt) we may be sure that in the future it will never again do so.

All regulation can ever do is approximate the results of competition.

The private sector, when left alone, can make better decisions than government can.

Regulation of private enterprise and not Government ownership or operation is the course rightly to be pursued in our relation to business.

There has been no country with a democratic political sphere, past or present, whose economy has not been dominated by private ownership and market coordination.