Eric Hoffer Quotes

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

'Big business' was a bad phrase in India. To be accused of being big business was the worst accusation you could make. All that has gone now. The whole mindset has changed.

Under capitalism each individual engages in economic planning.

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

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.

Capitalism and the market are presented as synonymous, but they are not. Capitalism is both the enemy of the market and democracy.

Capitalism will kill 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.

Although capitalism is, in principle, strongly individualistic, it has contributed in practice to reinforce the trend to integration, because it has made our lives more and more interdependent.

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

The key to democracy has been the free market economy.

Capitalism has worked very well. Anyone who wants to move to North Korea is welcome.

We need to move back toward a free market.

When the forces of liberalism and capitalism converge, change happens.

I'm a very free market guy.

I don't know much about Capitalism, but I do know about Democracy and freedom, and if Capitalism may change in many, many ways, I'm not really very much interested in Capitalism.

Capitalism is part of our system, but it's not for the faint of heart.

I am a huge fan of capitalism and a huge fan of entrepreneurship and changing the world with technology and with entrepreneurship. Capitalism is awesome. To me, capitalism is my religion.

Capitalism is not an economic system, but a world-outlook, or rather, a part of a whole world-outlook.

Having seen a non-market economy, I suddenly understood much better what I liked about a market economy.

Americans have learned to trust free markets. Republican or Democrat, we believe the unimpeded exchange of goods and services will yield better solutions than five-year plans set by even the most well-meaning public servants.

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.

There's a difference between a free market and free-for-all market.

Right now people seem to be very tentative about the positive benefits of capitalism.

Capitalism works.