George Soros Quotes

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.

Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

Either you believe in markets, or you believe in government.

I started out by viewing the marketplace as a cruel place, where you need intervention by government and lawyers to protect people. But after watching the regulators work, I have come to believe that markets are magical and the best protectors of the consumer. It is my job to explain the beauties of the free market.

A market economy is to economics what democracy is to government: a decent, if flawed choice, about many bad alternatives

Markets can do many wonderful things, which is why I'm glad to live in a capitalist country.

There is no pure free-market economy.

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

I believe in markets before mandates.

Free market economics is not enough .... a free market economy can only function in a cultural and moral environment that supports it

Markets can do certain things, but markets cannot do other things

What Americans should by now be able to see is that neither the laissez-faire marketplace nor strong government has given them a satisfying or permanent resolution. The problem is not the marketplace and it is not government. The problem originates in the contest of clashing values between society and capitalism and, since this human society cannot surrender its deepest values, it must try to alter capitalism's.

The issue is always the same: the government or the market. There is no third solution.

The key to democracy has been the free market economy.

The basic law of capitalism is you or I, not both you and I.

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.

There's not a single country that actually approaches economics in a pure, free market, capitalist way. I like the free market - but it very much exists only in textbooks. If I had a choice, and we could live in a very pure world, I would be a supporter of the free markets.

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 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.

All real capitalisms are impure hybrids, mongrels mixed with other strains.

Within a market, organizations have interests distinct from and often antagonistic to the market processes that produced and sustain them.

A market can be a capitalist or a socialist one, but it is still a market.

Capitalism is economic Darwinism…free enterprise is code for individualistic amorality…the marketplace is the temple of secular humanism.

The key to the moral superiority of capitalism is that people get rich by imaginatively serving the needs of others.

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