Janos Kornai Quotes

What is really at stake here is the survival of the kind of economy under which this country has grown great, the free-enterprise system

I believe in the free enterprise system.

The market economy-capitalism-is a social system of consumers' supremacy.

I do believe in the free market.

Capitalism works.

In a market economy, however, the individual has some possibility of escaping from the power of the state.

Under capitalism each individual engages in economic planning.

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.

What we want is to establish the rules of a market economy - not to plan its outcome.

Free enterprise is the only way for substantial growth.

The key to democracy has been the free market economy.

You have to have free enterprise for the many.

I'm pro-free enterprise.

Capitalism is a set of rituals.

I am pro-capitalism, and I am pro-free market.

The free market economy is supposed to be the only path leading to the happiness of humanity by promoting wealth and prosperity, power and influence of nations.

The European model is, first, a social and economic system founded on the role of the market, for no computer in the world can process information better than the market.

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

I don't want the technology of the 1950s, but I want the free market of the 1950s.

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

President Obama insists he's a free-market guy. But you have to wonder whether he understands how a free economy really works.

The great thing about capitalism is that it's a system that works.

East and West, most societies have come to believe that competition will produce more prosperity for more people than a planned economy. I share that belief.

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.

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