Best 143 quotes in «free market quotes» category

What ranks above all else for economic and political reconstruction is a radical change of ideologies. Economic prosperity is not so much a material problem; it is, first of all, an intellectual, spiritual, and moral problem.

What we have eaten in advance in recent decades in the paper credit binge, we will have to starve for in coming decades.

When did a free country start to mean free enterprise? Who sold Democracy out for a golden calf we got to idolize?

When you live in the United States, with the roar of the free market, the roar of this huge military power, the roar of being at the heart of empire, it's hard to hear the whispering of the rest of the world. And I think many US citizens want to. I don't think that all of them necessarily are co-conspirators in this concept of empire. And those who are not, need to listen to other stories in the world - other voices, other people.

When unions get higher wages for their members by restricting entry into an occupation, those higher wages are at the expense of other workers who find their opportunities reduced. When government pays its employees higher wages, those higher wages are at the expense of the taxpayer. But when workers get higher wages and better working conditions through the free market, when they get raises by firm competing with one another for the best workers, by workers competing with one another for the best jobs, those higher wages are at nobody's expense. They can only come from higher productivity, greater capital investment, more widely diffused skills. The whole pie is bigger - there's more for the worker, but there's also more for the employer, the investor, the consumer, and even the tax collector. That's the way the free market system distributes the fruits of economic progress among all people. That's the secret of the enormous improvements in the conditions of the working person over the past two centuries.

Why anarchy? Because anything less would be uncivilized.

Where there is commerce there is peace.

While liberals are in favor of any sexual activity engaged in by two consenting adults, when these consenting adults engage in trade or exchange, the liberals step in to harass, cripple, restrict, or prohibit that trade. And yet both the consenting sexual activity and the trade are similar expressions of liberty in action.

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

A free market was never meant to be a free licence to take whatever you can get, however you can get it.

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.

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

Free markets are the real people's revolution.

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

I can't concern myself with how viewers feel.

I am not in favor of a traditional 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.

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

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

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!

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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 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 in oil.

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

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

There is no free market for oil.

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

There is no pure free-market economy.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.