Ludwig von Mises Quotes

The great and abiding lesson of American history, particularly the cold war, is that the engine of capitalism, the individual, is mightier than any collective.

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

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

Capitalism is about adventurers who get harmed by their mistakes, not people who harm others with their mistakes.

America's wealth comes from the efforts of people striving for success. Take away their incentive with badmouthing success and you take away the wealth that helps us take care of the needy.

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 believes that its remit is exclusively to make maximum short-term profits.

We believe that business is good because it creates value. It is ethical because it is based on voluntary exchange; it is noble because it can elevate our existence, and it is heroic because it lifts people out of poverty and creates prosperity.

The moral case for individual initiative in a free economy holds that people have a God-given right to use their creativity to produce things that improve our lives.

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.

Capitalism does a number of things very well: it helps create an entrepreneurial spirit; it gets people motivated to come up with new ideas, and that's a good thing.

I unabashedly, unashamedly, unequivocally support the explosion of entrepreneurs in the capitalist system.

No economic system is perfect. But the American Free Enterprise system has empowered millions of people in the past. I know, because I saw it with my own eyes.

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.

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

I believe totally in a Capitalist System, I only wish that someone would try it.

You can invest as much as you want in infrastructure and education. But in the end people have to be allowed to make a profit from their work.

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

If history could prove and teach us anything, it would be that private ownership of the means of production is a necessary requisite of civilization and material well-being.... Only nations committed to the principle of private property have risen above penury and produced science, art and literature.

You have to have free enterprise for the many.

Americans chose a free enterprise system designed to provide a quality of opportunity, not compel a quality of results. And that is why this is only place in the world where you can open up a business in the spare bedroom of your home.

Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

Barack Obama doesn't believe in free enterprise. He's never going to admit it. For instance, he's never going to come straight out and say, 'If you own a business you didn't build it.' Alright, maybe he will.

I talk about economic freedom. I talk about capitalism without fearing the word.

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