William E. Simon Quotes

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

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

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

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

My fundamental tenets are concerned with freedom of the individual; the market isn't perfect, but it's the best available way of allocating resources.

Contrary to the claims of some of my critics and some of the editorial pages, I am an ardent believer in the free market.

I do believe in the free market.

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

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

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.

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

In a capitalist society, all human relationships are voluntary. Men are free to cooperate or not, to deal with one another or not, as their own individual judgments, convictions and interests dictate.

The program of liberalism, therefore, if condensed into a single word, would have to read: property, that is, private ownership of the means of production... All the other demands of liberalism result from his fundamental demand.

I'm pro-free enterprise.

I believe in the free enterprise system.

If you aren't talking to your kids about socialism, someone else is. So use car time, dinner time, tax preparation time, and time spent together at your work or small business to teach your child about the virtues of capitalism, the system of government that has lifted more people out of poverty.

I believe in our free market system.

The free market is fundamentally humane and democratic, driven by ideas and millions of individual choices about what to do with our money which defy those who benefit from the status quo.

Capitalism is not a Ponzi scheme. Capitalism is a scheme of free markets.

A free economy is as essential to society as democratic political institutions. A strong market-based economy is the fertile ground for democratic freedoms that we think are important.

Fighting for free enterprise means standing up for free markets. The freedom to succeed includes the freedom to fail. We must defend entrepreneurial capitalism against the onslaught of the American Left.

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.

The only place you see a free market is in the speeches of politicians.

The only way that has ever been discovered to have a lot of people cooperate together voluntarily is through the free market. And that's why it's so essential to preserving individual freedom.

Having seen a non-market economy, I suddenly understood much better what I liked about a market economy.