Henry Hazlitt Quotes

If you discourage saving and investment, that means you're walking in the opposite direction of job creation. You're discouraging good job creation and job growth.

I think the market driven economic system is the most productive system, but to have that work in the world, you've got to also have social investments to go along with that.

I think that the EU with the Lisbon agenda has put the right emphasis on growth and employment.

We cannot cut our way to prosperity.

In this day and age, a big economy – a modern economy – just cannot be managed from the top.

The bottom line of a successful economic policy is jobs.

It is not our foreign trade that has caused the wonderful growth and expansion of the Republic.

Growth is good for this society as long as it doesn't pass the point of tripping off inflation.

Money can never circulate freely and actively unless there be absolute confidence in its value.

Savings is the fundamental input for capital investment, and capital investment is the primary ingredient in productivity.

History does not provide any example of capital accumulation brought about by a government. As far as governments invested in the construction of roads, railroads, and other useful public works, the capital needed was provided by the savings of individual citizens and borrowed by the government.

Savings and investment are indissolubly linked. It is impossible to encourage one and discourage the other.

I wanted to be clear that Republicans will continue to be a champion for expanding economic freedom to trade. It is at the heart of our free-enterprise system.

The United States has the world's largest and most innovative economy, an unmatched rule of law, and a free market that is the envy of the international community. For investors, we are the reserve currency.

The strong economy means there is fiscal firepower and we need to use that to show people the benefits of the free-market system.

The economy's always been the engine for our national security.

A tax on capital is self-defeating, in that it slows down capital accumulation, investment and economic growth.

To see off Corbyn's Labour, we need to start the debate as to how and why a market economy is the way to deliver prosperity, social mobility, fully funded public services, and the means to address their concerns about the environment and social justice.

Profit, wealth creation, competition - these are not dirty words but the lifeblood of a dynamic economy.

It is the rate of investment which governs the rate of saving, and not vice versa.

You don't drive an economy by consuming - the consumer is not the engine, the consumer is the caboose.

I really want to focus on economic growth and growing the economy.

The best way to help the poor is to slash taxes and allow savings, investment, and creation of jobs to proceed unhampered.

The problem is, if at all, in the different view of the economy, of economic growth. Growth is too low, even for us. That needs to change: More investments, a stronger role by the European Central Bank. Otherwise, there are no tensions between Italy and Germany. But on this point, compromises must be reached and we will reach them.

The only source of the generation of additional capital goods is saving. If all the goods produced are consumed, no new capital comes into being.