Warren G. Harding Quotes

The best thing that governments can do is get out of business. When governments interfere less, managers can do their jobs better.

Less Government in Business and More Business in Government

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

The best way for you to keep Government out of your business is to promote competition.

The Government must get out of the "protective" business and the "subsidy" business and the "improvement" and the "development" business. It must let trade, and commerce, and manufactures, and steamboats, and railroads and telegraphs alone. It cannot touch them without breeding corruption.

Government can encourage innovation, but mainly by doing less, not doing more.

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.

Establishment of a market economy is seen as mostly involving destruction.

There are a lot of people who say they believe in free enterprise but what they really mean is government-funded free enterprise.

Let business oversee itself.

With deregulation, one sector of the economy after another is "liberated" to capital's unmonitored authority. The very notion that there is a public interest is contested…. Deregulation has been, above all else, a means of reducing corporate business's accountability to the public.

Government intervention only hurts; it doesn't help.

It is just as important that business keep out of government as that government keep out of business.

We are in favor of greater free markets.

It should not be the government running the economy.

I'm not against business. I'm against big business in bed with big government.

Koch Industries is an amazing business that has succeeded by building a product that customers love dearly. The folks who run Koch are very clear. They would love to have government just get out of the way and allow companies to compete, whether in their particular sectors or other sectors. They are true believers in small government.

The American formula for creating business is not to have the government create business.

We are a mixed economy. We will remain a mixed economy. The public and private sector will continue to play a very important role. The private sector in our country has very ample scope and I am confident that India's entrepreneurs have the capacity, and the will to rise to the occasion.

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

I am not someone who tends to advocate for increased government involvement in the private sector.

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

We want a market economy without any adjectives. Any compromises with that will only fuzzy up the problems we have.

Corporate executives are not all that conservative….They are not interested in the social issues and the big boys and girls are not interested in fighting regulation because that’s what keeps the little boys and girls from becoming big boys and girls.

It's appropriate for people to pursue their profit motive in business. If you want to change that, you're going against human nature. But when it comes to setting the rules or creating the institutions, then you should have the general interest at heart.