The real bosses in the capitalist system of market economy are the consumers. They by their buying and by their abstention from buying decide who should own the capital and run the plants. They determine what should be produced and in what quantity and quality. Their attitudes result either in profit or in loss for the enterpriser. They make poor men rich and rich men poor. They are no easy bosses.
Ludwig von MisesIt is indeed one of the principal drawbacks of every kind of interventionism that it is so difficult to reverse the process.
Ludwig von MisesHistory has witnessed the failure of many endeavors to impose peace by war, cooperation by coercion, unanimity by slaughtering dissidents.... A lasting order cannot be established by bayonets.
Ludwig von MisesThe wealth of the well-to-do of an industrial society is both the cause and effect of the masses' well-being.
Ludwig von MisesWhat economic calculation requires is a monetary system whose functioning is not sabotaged by government interference.
Ludwig von Mises