Private Enterprise Quotes:

Private enterprise is ceasing to be free enterprise. Private enterprise, indeed, became too private. It became privileged enterprise, not free enterprise.

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

topic: Enterprise, Free Enterprise, Private Enterprise

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.

- Winston Churchill

topic: Inspirational, Horse, Business, Sturdy, Predatory

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.

- Winston Churchill

source: Speech at the Scottish Unionist Conference, Perth, Scotland, May 28, 1948.

topic: Philosophy, Ignorance, Envy, Democratic Socialism, Capitalism And Socialism

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.

- Winston Churchill

topic: Freedom, Humor, Patriotic, Political Ideology, War Victory

Never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.

- Winston Churchill

topic: Courage, Yield, Giving, Special Forces, Overwhelming Force

Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never -- in nothing, great or small, large or petty -- never give in, except to convictions of honor and good sense.

- Winston Churchill

source: Speech at Harrow School, Harrow, England, 29 Oct. 1941

topic: Life, Inspiring, Graduation, Just Give Up, Just Stay Strong

Anything that government can do, private enterprise can do for half the cost.

- Milton Friedman

topic: Government, Cost, Half, Private Enterprise

The Great Depression in the United States was caused - I won't say caused, was enormously intensified and made far worse than it would have been by bad monetary policy.

- Milton Friedman

source: Source: www.pbs.org

topic: United States, Great Depression, Made, Instability, Monetary Policy

Since the State necessarily lives by the compulsory confiscation of private capital, and since its expansion necessarily involves ever-greater incursions on private individuals and private enterprise, we must assert that the state is profoundly and inherently anti-capitalist .

- Murray Rothbard

topic: Expansion, Individual, States, Private Enterprise

The state tends to expand in proportion to its means of existence and to live beyond its means, and these are, in the last analysis, nothing but the substance of the people. Woe to the people that cannot limit the sphere of action of the state! Freedom, private enterprise, wealth, happiness, independence, personal dignity, all vanish.

- Frederic Bastiat

topic: Mean, People, Voting, Private Enterprise

Now, I’m not saying that we don’t need rules in society. But the question of who makes the rules and on what basis becomes supremely important. Will the rule-making flow from the matrix of voluntary exchange based on the ethic of serving others through private enterprise? Or will the rules be made and enforced by people wearing guns and bulletproof vests with a license to shock or kill based on minor annoyances?

- Jeffrey Tucker

topic: Gun, Bulletproof Vest, People, Private Enterprise, Bulletproof

If the Treasury were to fill old bottles with bank-notes, bury them at suitable depths in disused coal-mines which are then filled up to the surface with town rubbish, and leave it to private enterprise on well-tried principles of laissez-faire to dig the notes up again (the right to do so being obtained, of course, by tendering for leases of the note-bearing territory), there need be no more unemployment and, with the help of repercussions, the real income of the community, and its capital wealth, would probably become a good deal greater than it actually is.

- John Maynard Keynes

topic: Real, Community, Principles, Digging A Hole, Laissez Faire

Above all, as the keynote of all Democratic policy, in passing upon any question, let the controlling aim and ambition be to keep the road open for private enterprise and personal initiative.

- John W. Davis

topic: Ambition, Politics, Initiative, Private Enterprise

All the controversialists who have become conscious of the real issue are already saying of our ideal exactly what used to be said of the Socialists' ideal. They are saying that private property is too ideal not to be impossible. They are saying that private enterprise is too good to be true. They are saying that the idea of ordinary men owning ordinary possessions is against the laws of political economy and requires an alteration in human nature.

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

topic: Real, Men, Law, Political Economy, Private Enterprise

Pollution and overuse of resources stem directly from the failure of government to defend private property. If property rights were to be defended adequately, we would find that here, as in other areas of our economy and society, private enterprise and modern technology would come not as a curse to mankind but as its salvation.

- Murray Rothbard

topic: Technology, Rights, Government, Private Enterprise

When shallow critics denounce the profit motive inherent in our system of private enterprise, they ignore the fact that it is an economic support of every human right we possess and without it, all rights would disappear.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

topic: Rights, Support, Facts, Private Enterprise, Profit Motive

We have feudal governments in a commercial age. It would be but an easy extension of our commercial system, to pay a private emperor a fee for services, as we pay an architect, an engineer, or a lawyer. If any man has talent for righting wrong, for administering difficult affairs, for counselling poor farmers how to turn their estates to good husbandry, for combining a hundred private enterprises to a general benefit, let him in the county- town, or in Court-street, put up his sign-board, Mr. Smith, Governor, Mr. Johnson, Working king.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

source: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.303

topic: Leadership, Kings, Men, Private Enterprise

Donald Trump is not supposed to save jobs one by one. He's supposed to build a sound macro economy in which private enterprises create jobs.

- David Frum

source: Source: www.cbc.ca

topic: Jobs, Sound, Economy, Macro, Private Enterprise

There's a very good reason that governments aren't supposed to compete with private-enterprise companies. Governments have monopolies on certain things, like eminent domain and deadly force.

- P. J. O'Rourke

topic: Government, Eminent Domain, Reason, Deadly Force, Private Enterprise

Experience shows that nothing is operated with less economy and with more waste of labor and material of every kind than public services and undertakings. Private enterprise on the other hand naturally induces the owner to work with the greatest economy in his own interest.

- Ludwig von Mises

source: Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist”, p.157, VM eBooks

topic: Hands, Waste, Kind, Private Enterprise

The quickest and surest way to production, prosperity, and economic growth is through private enterprise. The best way for governments to encourage private enterprise is to establish justice, to enforce contracts, to insure domestic peace and tranquility, to protect private property, and to secure the blessings of liberty including economic liberty - which means to stop putting obstacles in the way of private enterprise.

- Henry Hazlitt

source: Henry Hazlitt (1971). “Man Vs. the Welfare State”, p.170, Ludwig von Mises Institute

topic: Mean, Blessing, Government, Private Enterprise, Peace And Tranquility

The rationale for the vast network of government welfare programs as well as regulation and control over private enterprise is based on the socialist analysis of the market economy.

- Richard Ebeling

topic: Government, Welfare Programs, Analysis, Private Enterprise, Rationale

No private enterprise will ever fall prey to bureaucratic methods of management if it is operated with the sole aim of making profit.

- Ludwig von Mises

source: Ludwig Von Mises (1969). “Bureaucracy”, ICON Group International

topic: Fall, Management, Prey, Private Enterprise

I can remember the time when, if we wanted a house or housing, we relied on private enterprise. In fact, Americans built more square feet of housing per person than any other country on the face of the earth. Despite that remarkable accomplishment, more and more people are coming to believe that the only way we can have adequate housing is to use government to take the earnings from some and give these earnings, in the form of housing, to others.

- Leonard Read

topic: Private Enterprise

Private enterprise is not as spectacular nor as easy to see as the socialist way of temporarily diffusing poverty by eating up the seed corn - the tools - which will increase poverty in the long run.

- Raymond C. Hoiles

topic: Running, Long, Tools, Private Enterprise

We are so accustomed to the miracle of private enterprise that we habitually take it for granted. But how does private industry solve the incredibly complex problem of turning out tens of thousands of different goods and services in the proportions in which they are wanted by the public? ... It solves these problems through the institutions of private property, competition, the free market, and the existence of money - through the interrelations of supply and demand, costs and prices, profits and losses.

- Henry Hazlitt

topic: Loss, Miracle, Competition, Supply And Demand, Complex Problems

As motherhood as a "private enterprise" declines and more mothers rely on the work of lower-paid specialists, the value accorded the work of mothering (not the value of children) has declined for women, making it all the harder for men to take it up.

- Arlie Russell Hochschild

topic: Specialists, Private Enterprise

Some [intentional communities], like the Shakers and the Harmony Society, have endured for a century or even longer. The Hutterians, to cite an extreme example, are today still strongly committed to communal living after practicing it, punctuated only by occasional lapses into private enterprise, for 450 years. The Hutterian rate of membership turnover has been only about 0.0006 per year.

- Benjamin Zablocki

topic: Years, Community, Collaboration, Private Enterprise, Shakers

In actual fact, it is the State, i.e., the taxpayer who has become responsible to private enterprise. In Fascist Italy the State pays for the blunders of private enterprise Profit is private and individual. Loss is public and social.

- Gaetano Salvemini

topic: Loss, Pay, Facts, Private Enterprise

A newspaper is a private enterprise owing nothing whatsoever to the public, which grants it no franchise. It is therefore affected with no public interest.

- William Peter Hamilton

topic: Owing, Newspapers, Interest, Private Enterprise

The economic miracle that has been the United States was not produced by socialized enterprises, by government-unon-industry cartels or by centralized economic planning. It was produced by private enterprises in a profit-and-loss system. And losses were at least as important in weeding out failures, as profits in fostering successes. Let government succor failures, and we shall be headed for stagnation and decline.

- Milton Friedman

topic: Letting Go, Weed, Loss, Stagnation, Centralized Government

In private enterprises men may advance or recede, whereas they who aim at empire have no alternative between the highest success and utter downfall.

- Tacitus

source: Cornelius Tacitus (1873). “The History of Tacitus”, p.81, London : Macmillan

topic: Success, Ambition, Men, Private Enterprise

When a private enterprise fails, it is closed down; when a government enterprise fails, it is expanded. Isn't that exactly what's been happening with drugs?

- Milton Friedman

topic: Marijuana, Government, Drug, Medical Marijuana, Cannabis

Private enterprise can never lead a space frontier. It's not possible because a space frontier is expensive, it has unknown risks and it has unquantified risks.

- Neil deGrasse Tyson

topic: Space, Risk, Enterprise, Private Enterprise

I think eventually private enterprise will be able to send people into orbit, but I suspect initially it's going to have to be with NASA's help.

- Sally Ride

topic: Thinking, People, Orbit, Capital Investment, Private Enterprise

Private enterprise creates; government destroys. That is the great economic lesson of our times and all times.

- Llewellyn Rockwell

topic: Government, Liberty, Lessons, Private Enterprise, Great Libertarian

It's time to believe again in the potential of private enterprise set free from the shackles of over-bearing federal government.

- Rick Perry

source: Presidential Candidacy Announcement, delivered 13 August 2011, Charleston, South Carolina

topic: Believe, Government, Shackles, Private Enterprise

We need to develop and disseminate an entirely new paradigm and practice of collaboration that supersedes the traditional silos that have divided governments, philanthropies and private enterprises for decades and replace it with networks of partnerships working together to create a globally prosperous society.

- Simon Mainwaring

topic: Government, Practice, Working Together, Divided Government, Private Enterprise

Small and mid-sized companies in this country historically have been responsible for creating the overwhelming majority of new jobs in the private sector. One of the most-common misconceptions about our private enterprise system is that large companies, such as the Fortune 500, are integral to the process of job creation in this country. The truth is quite the opposite.

- Michael Milken

topic: Country, Jobs, Opposites, Job Creation, Large Companies

Private enterprise manages better all that to which it is equal. Anarchism declares that private enterprise, whether individual or cooperative, is equal to all the undertakings of society.

- Voltairine de Cleyre

topic: Individual, Equal, Anarchism, Private Enterprise

Respecters of private property are really obligated to oppose much that is done today in the name of private enterprise, for corporate organization and monopoly are the very means whereby property is casting aside its privacy.

- Richard M. Weaver

topic: Mean, Names, Organization, Very Mean, Private Enterprise

The New Deals enmity for that system of free and competitive private enterprise which we call capitalism was fundamental.

- Garet Garrett

topic: Fundamentals, Enmity, Enterprise, Private Enterprise, New Deal

The real question of government versus private enterprise is argued on too philosophical and abstract a basis. Theoretically, planning may be good. But nobody has ever figured out the cause of government stupidity—and until they do (and find the cure), all ideal plans will fall into quicksand.

- Richard P. Feynman

topic: Real, Fall, Philosophical, Private Enterprise

The sole function of Government is to bring about a condition of affairs favorable to the beneficial development of private enterprise.

- Herbert Hoover

source: Herbert Hoover, United States. President (1929-1933 : Hoover) (1934). “The state papers and other public writings of Herbert Hoover”

topic: Government, Development, Affair, Private Enterprise

What the carburetor, sparkplug and self-starter are to an automobile, initiative, private enterprise and executive ability are to industry as a whole, including the wage earner, wage payer, wage spender and wage saver, i.e., the investor. If the sparkplug and self-starter get out of commission, the car will come to a standstill.

- William J. H. Boetcker

topic: Self, Car, Initiative, Private Enterprise, Standstill

The real story of Detroit [...] can be summed up in seven words. Private enterprise built it, government destroyed it.

- Peter Schiff

topic: Real, Government, Stories, Private Enterprise, Real Story

If the State does not acquire supremacy over [vast private] enterprises, it becomes their puppet, and they become the real State.

- Bertrand Russell

source: Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.652, Routledge

topic: Real, Puppets, Doe, Private Enterprise

I used to be a businessman and I enjoyed what I did and I thought that it was socially useful. I don't have anything against business or private enterprise or capitalism per se, but I think that it is time to rethink the regulation of capitalism.

- Charles Ferguson

source: Source: www.pbs.org

topic: Thinking, Regulation, Used, Private Enterprise

Education is here placed among the articles of public care, not that it would be proposed to take its ordinary branches out of the hands of private enterprise, which manages so much better all the concerns to which it is equal, but a public institution can alone supply those sciences which, though rarely called for, are yet necessary to complete the circle, all the parts of which contribute to the improvement of the country, and some of them to its preservation.

- Thomas Jefferson

source: Thomas Jefferson (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”, p.68

topic: Education, Country, Hands, Private Enterprise

It would be madness to let the purposes or the methods of private enterprise set the habits of the age of atomic energy.

- Harold Laski

topic: Age, Energy, Would Be, Private Enterprise, Atomic Energy