Anthony Crosland Quotes

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

Americans mythologize competition and credit it with saving us from socialist bread lines. Actually, capitalism and competition are opposites. Capitalism is premised on the accumulation of capital, but under perfect competition, all profits get competed away.

Capitalism should not be condemned, since we haven't had capitalism.

From a systematic standpoint, I think that capitalism is the best system. I can spend a lot of time explaining why I like communism, but it is actually not a good solution. Nor is socialism. So, capitalism is the right model.

Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

If you get rich in the name of the poor, fine and dandy. The problem is when you earn it. If you earn the money in the private sector by starting a business and hiring a lot of people, that's when you become the enemy.

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

In essence, capitalist systems are a mechanism by which economies may generate growth in knowledge - with much uncertainty in the process, owing to the incompleteness of knowledge.

Capitalism works.

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.

Under capitalism each individual engages in economic planning.

In America, business is the first object in view at all times, and rightly it should be so.

The business of America is business.

I am an ardent supporter of capitalism - but I also understand that while individuals have inalienable, God-given rights, corporations do not.

In socialism, private property is anathema, and equal distribution of income the first consideration. In capitalism, private property is cardinal, and distribution left to ensue from the play of free contract and selfish interest on that basis, no matter what anomalies it may present.

Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.

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

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

I am a capitalist and I believe in making a profit.

For the private sector to flourish, special privilege must give way to equal opportunity and equal risk for all.

By giving the leadership to the private sector in a capitalistic society, we're going to measure the value of art by how many products we can sell.

Capitalist, democratic states put the emphasis on the private sector, which doesn't always deliver on social goods.

A Socialist Government cannot carry on a capitalist system better than the capitalists. The men bred by a capitalist system are men of affairs who understand their business. They are not apprentices.

Capitalism is not an orgy of human villainy: it is a Utopia that has dazzled and misled very amiable and public spirited men.

Profit is the concern of a little man.