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  • 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.

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

    Mean   People   Voting  
  • I am all in favor of pay equity for women, but this kind of legislation, as is typical of what's being proposed by my friends on the other side of the aisle, opens us up to lawsuits for all kinds of problems.

    "Obama strategy: Equal pay, not abortion" by Avi Zenilman and Carrie Budoff Brown, www.politico.com. July 14, 2008.
  • Lovemaking surely must be, for human beings at our present state of development, one of the more private enterprises. Who would want a witness to that entire self-abandonment and helplessness?

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

  • Private enterprise did not get us atomic energy.

    John Kenneth Galbraith (1998). “The Affluent Society”, p.271, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • 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.

    Thinking   People   Orbit  
    Interview with Jim Clash, www.askmen.com.
  • 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.

  • The orthodox doctrines of economics which were dominant in the last quarter of the nineteenth century had a clear message. They supported laisser faire, free trade, the gold standard, and the universally advantageous effects of the pursuit of profit by competitive private enterprise.

    Gold   Lasts   Messages  
    Joan Robinson (1973). “Economic heresies: some old-fashioned questions in economic theory”
  • The idea that government can instruct private enterprise on how to eliminate waste is preposterous.

  • Bearing all this in mind, we see that there is no Russian national understanding which would permit the early establishment in Russia of anything resembling the private enterprise system as we know it.

    George F. Kennan (2012). “American Diplomacy: Sixtieth-Anniversary Expanded Edition”, p.139, University of Chicago Press
  • 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.

    Self   Car   Initiative  
  • Politicians, bureaucrats, editors, new commentators, 'economists' teachers,' and other word artists who denounce private enterprise and praise socialism are their own worst enemies...these attackers are unwittingly destroying the sources of their own livelihood. They kill the geese that lay the golden eggs - and don't know it!

  • Private enterprise is ceasing to be free enterprise.

    Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1941). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1938, Volume 7”, p.308, Best Books on
  • The problem isn't that conservatives are wrong about the efficiency of markets or the creativity of enterprise. It's that they have made false idols of both, usually without acknowledging that markets work best when well regulated, that private enterprise cannot meet every human need, that government has always played a critical role in our economy, and that the profit motive can be socially and environmentally destructive as well as dynamic.

  • Private enterprise in cricket might not be regarded as the last word, and ultimate state direction would not do it any harm.

    Might   Lasts   Cricket  
  • Social justice and compassion are compatible with an intelligent respect for private enterprise and law and order.

    Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.7, Vintage
  • 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.

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  • It is a popular error that bureaucracy is less flexible than private enterprise. It may be so in detail, but when large scale adaptations have to be made, central control is far more flexible. It may take two months to get an answer to a letter from a government department, but it takes twenty years for an industry under private enterprise to readjust itself to a fall in demand.

    Fall   Years   Two  
    Joan Robinson (2014). “Contributions to Modern Economics”, p.27, Academic Press
  • Private enterprise manages so much better all the concerns to which it is equal.

    Thomas Jefferson, Richard Holland Johnston, Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association of the United States “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”
  • Unlike private enterprise which quickly modifies its actions to meet emergencies - unlike the shopkeeper who promptly finds the wherewith to satisfy a sudden demand - unlike the railway company which doubles its trains to carry a special influx of passengers; the law-made instrumentality lumbers on under all varieties of circumstances at its habitual rate. By its very nature it is fitted only for average requirements, and inevitably fails under unusual requirements.

    Average   Law   Special  
    Herbert Spencer (1858). “Essays: Scientific, Political and Speculative”, p.326
  • 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.

    Rights   Support   Facts  
  • 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.

    Mother   Children   Men  
  • The future of private enterprise capitalism is also the future of a free society. There is no possibility of having a politically free society unless the major part of its economic resources are operated under a capitalistic private enterprise system.

    Milton Friedman (1978). “Tax limitation, inflation and the role of government”, Fisher Inst
  • It strikes me as very strange that whereas Tennyson could support most of Mr. Buckley's propositions about free trade, and the private sector, and private enterprise, Tennyson found no difficulty also in lending intellectual support to the idea of Women's Liberation.

  • 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.

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

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

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

    Garet Garrett (1944). “The Revolution was”
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