The entrepreneur profits to the extent he has succeeded in serving the consumers better than other people have done.
Ludwig von MisesMan is born an asocial and antisocial being. The newborn child is a savage. Egoism is his nature. Only the experience of life and the teachings of his parents, his brothers, sisters, playmates, and later of other people FORCE HIM to acknowledge the advantages of social cooperation and accordingly to change his behavior.
Ludwig von MisesThe superiority of the gold standard consists in the fact that the value of gold develops independent of political actions.
Ludwig von Mises