Private Enterprise Quotes - Page 2

• 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

  Loss, Miracle, Competition

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• 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

  Mother, Children, Men

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• 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

  Years, Community, Membership

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• 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

  Loss, Pay, Facts

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• 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

  Owing, Newspapers, Interest

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• 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

  Letting Go, Weed, Loss

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• 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

  Success, Ambition, Men

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

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• 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

  Weed, Marijuana, Government

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• 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

  Space, Risk, Enterprise

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• 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

  Thinking, People, Orbit

  Interview with Jim Clash, www.askmen.com.

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

  Llewellyn Rockwell

  Government, Liberty, Lessons

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

  Rick Perry

  Believe, Government, Shackles

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

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• 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

  Government, Practice, Working Together

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• 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

  Country, Jobs, Opposites

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• 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

  Individual, Equal, Anarchism

  Voltairine de Cleyre (2012). “Exquisite Rebel: The Essays of Voltairine de Cleyre -- Anarchist, Feminist, Genius”, p.23, SUNY Press

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• 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

  Mean, Names, Organization

  Richard M. Weaver (2013). “Ideas Have Consequences: Expanded Edition”, p.121, University of Chicago Press

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

  Garet Garrett

  Fundamentals, Enmity, Enterprise

  Garet Garrett (1944). “The Revolution was”

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• 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

  Real, Philosophical, Fall

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.279, Princeton University Press

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

  Herbert Hoover

  Government, Development, Affair

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

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• 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

  Self, Car, Initiative

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

  Peter Schiff

  Real, Government, Stories

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

  Bertrand Russell

  Real, Puppets, Doe

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

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• 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

  Thinking, Regulation, Used

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• 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

  Education, Country, Hands

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

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• 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

  Age, Energy, Would Be

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