It is not the fault of the entrepreneurs that the consumers,the people, the common man,prefer liquor to Bibles and detective stories to serious books, and that governments prefer guns to butter. The entrepreneur does not make greater profits in selling bad things than in selling good things. His profits are the greater the better he succeeds in providing the consumers with those things they ask for most intensely.

The development of capitalism consists in everyone having the right to serve the consumer better or more cheaply.

Nobody is in a position to decree what should make a fellow man happier.

The causes of all panics, crashes and depressions can be summed up in only four words: the misuse of credit.

The concept of a 'just' or 'fair' price is devoid of any scientific meaning; it is a disguise for wishes, a striving for a state of affairs different from reality.

We must fight all that we dislike in public life. We must substitute better ideas for wrong ideas.

The characteristic mark of this age of dictators, wars and revolutions is its anticapitalistic bias. Most governments and political parties were eager to restrict the sphere of private initiative and free enterprise.