Best 143 quotes in «free market quotes» category

Columbus did not seek a new route to the Indies in response to a majority directive.

Free-market capitalism, in the blink of an eye, was gutted and replaced by an oligopoly.

Free market capitalism is the best path to prosperity!

Free markets select for winning solutions.

Free trade or the free market means the sovereignty of the consumer.

Free markets are the real people's revolution.

I am a free market Republican. I am against subsidies, in most cases.

I am not in favor of a traditional free market.

Inflation, being a fraudulent invasion of property, could not take place on the free market.

If you live in a free market and a free society, shouldn't you have the right to know what you're buying? It's shocking that we don't and it's shocking how much is kept from us.

I can't concern myself with how viewers feel.

It is not uncommon to suppose that the free exchange of property in markets and capitalism are one and the same. They are not. While capitalism operates through the free market, free markets don't require capitalism.

I think that there is absolutely no free market in modern industrial states.

Personally, I always find it especially piquant when cultural conservatives, usually quick to profess their devotion to the Free Market, rail against the success in said market of some product of which they disapprove.

It really is not that complicated, I just don’t understand HOW people don’t grasp the concept of ‘Free Market’, and why left alone, it WORKS!

Let us have the candor to acknowledge that what we call "the economy" or "the free market" is less and less distinguishable from warfare.

No one spends someone elses money as carefully as he spends his own.

Nobody spends somebody else's money as carefully as he spends his own.

The American people are being victimized more than any free market would warrant.

The American free market system is the greatest engine for prosperity and opportunity that the world has ever seen. Freedom works.

The broader and more influential organisations of businessmen have acted to undermine the basic foundation of the free market system they purport to represent and defend.

Ronald Reagan believes in the free market like some people believe in unicorns.

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

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

The free market allowed shock jocks to flourish, and millions of listeners apparently enjoyed the rant.

There are different ways to organise capitalism. Free-market capitalism is only one of them-and not a very good one at that.

The policy of letting the free market determine the height of wage rates is the only reasonable and successful full-employment policy.

There is no free market for oil.

There is not one grain of anything in the world that is sold in the free market. Not one. The only place you see a free market is in the speeches of politicians.

The historical debate is over. The answer is free-market capitalism.

There is no free market for oil. It's controlled by a cartel, OPEC.

There is no free market in oil.

There is no pure free-market economy.

These guys who talk about free markets, they're not ideologues; they're crooks.

True, the free market ignores the poor precisely as it does not recognize the wealthy - it is 'no respecter of persons'

The trouble with a free market economy is that it requires so many policemen to make it work.

Voluntary association produces the free market - where each person can choose among a multitude of possibilities.

Time is a corporate asset now. It belongs to the free market system. The present is harder to find... The future becomes insistent.

A free society cherishes nonconformity. It knows that from the non-conformist, from the eccentric, have come many of the great ideas of freedom. A free society fertilizes the soil in which non-conformity and dissent and individualism can grow.

A black market is the part of a free market that refuses to knuckle under to government oppression.

After all, as Prokhorov said, "Money nowadays comes in two stories." What Westerners could comprehend "two-story money"? A lathe operator during the war received, after deductions, eight hundred rubles a month, and bread cost 140 rubles on the open market. And that meant that in the course of one month he did not earn enough for even six kilos of bread, over and above his ration. In other words, he could not bring home even seven ounces a day for his whole family! But at the same time he did… live. With frank and open impudence they paid the workers an unreal wage, and let them go and seek "the second story." And the person who paid our plasterer [at the Kaluga Gates prison camp] insane money [200 rubles] for his evening's work also got to the "second story" on his own in some particular way. Thus it was that the socialist system triumphed, but only on paper. The old ways—tenacious, flexible—never died out, as a result of either curses or persecution by the prosecutors.

Again, a Prince should show himself a patron of merit, and should honour those who excel in every art. He ought accordingly to encourage his subjects by enabling them to pursue their callings, whether mercantile, agricultural, or any other, in security, so that this man shall not be deterred from beautifying his possessions from the apprehension that they may be taken from him, or that other refrain from opening a trade through fear of taxes; and he should provide rewards for those who desire so to employ themselves, and for all who are disposed in any way to add to the greatness of his City or State.

All food, comfort, energy, shelter, space, fuel and sustenance gravitates naturally and easily away from those who need it most and towards those who need it least.

A man who chooses between drinking a glass of milk and a glass of a solution of potassium cyanide does not choose between two beverages; he chooses between life and death. A society that chooses between capitalism and socialism does not choose between two social systems; it chooses between social cooperation and the disintegration of society. Socialism is not an alternative to capitalism; it is an alternative to any system under which men can live as human beings.

As much as I say that market economy is a more aggressive, expansile form of command economy, I say now that democracy is a more aggressive, expansile form of dictatorship. The sin of democracy and any types of -cracy is their numbers.

When you argue for free markets, you are arguing against the trend.

As if it were Injustice to sell dearer than we buy; or to give more to a man than he merits. The value of all things contracted for, is measured by the Appetite of the Contractors: and therefore the just value, is that which they be contented to give.

Beautiful, seamless upgrade from Twitter today, making functionality smoother and cooler. We didn't have to lobby, didn't have to beg, didn't have to elect a new leader, didn't have to push or protest. Progress is built in to the structure of the mechanism itself: this company exists to please you and me. This is a far better system than any political system on earth.

A time of ongoing cultural revolution when the adversaries of Christianity have made plain their intent to use the state machinery to promote radical social ideologies hardly seems an opportune moment to discuss how the rights of property might be compromised. Private property is an important bulwark against the ongoing anti-Christian campaign. Although opponents of the free market will doubtless claim that they wish to interfere with the rights of property only to this or that extent, or only to bring about this or that allegedly desirable social outcome, there can be little excuse for such naiveté in our day. No Christian should want to build up an institution that he would be terrified to see in the hands of his ideological opponents.

But in spite of its bent toward self-interest, even with its excesses and inequalities, capitalism has a historic opportunity to create shared wealth that can benefit every person on the globe. I am convinced that our best hope for moving the poverty needle toward financial wellness once and for all lies with the best practices of the free market.