Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
If you increase the quantity of money, you bring about the lowering of the purchasing power of the monetary unit.
Ludwig von Mises
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Ludwig von Mises
Age: 92 †
Born: 1881
Born: September 29
Died: 1973
Died: October 10
Economist
Philosopher
University Teacher
Writer
Lemberg
Austria
Ludwig Heinrich Edler von Mises
Ludwig Heinrich Mises
Increase
Bring
Money
Lowering
Power
Purchasing
World
Unit
Monetary
Units
Quantity
More quotes by Ludwig von Mises
Every socialist is a disguised dictator.
Ludwig von Mises
If the government objects to monopoly prices for new inventions, it should stop granting patents.
Ludwig von Mises
It is impossible to describe any human action if one does not refer to the meaning the actor sees in the stimulus as well as in the end his response is aiming at.
Ludwig von Mises
Profits are the driving force of the market economy. The greater the profits, the better the needs of the consumers are supplied... He who serves the public best, makes the highest profits.
Ludwig von Mises
Government policies try to prevent the emergence of serious unemployment by credit expansion, i.e., inflation. The outcome was rising prices, renewed demands for higher wages and reiterated credit expansion in short, protracted inflation.
Ludwig von Mises
There is simply no other choice than this: either to abstain from interference in the free play of the market, or to delegate the entire management of production and distribution to the government. Either capitalism or socialism: there exists no middle way.
Ludwig von Mises
The consumers are asking for, they lose their office. Their task is service to the consumer. Profit and loss are the instruments by means of which the consumers keep a tight rein on all business activities.
Ludwig von Mises
The market economy-capitalism-is a social system of consumers' supremacy.
Ludwig von Mises
Only the naive inflationist's could believe that government could enrich mankind through fiat money.
Ludwig von Mises
All varieties of interference with the market phenomena not only fail to achieve the ends aimed at by their authors and supporters, but bring about a state of affairs which - from the point of view of their authors and advocates valuations - is less desirable than the previous state of affairs which they were designed to alter.
Ludwig von Mises
The capitalist system, in spite of all obstacles put in its way by governments and politicians, has raised the standard of living of the masses in an unprecedented way.
Ludwig von Mises
Economic knowledge necessarily leads to liberalism
Ludwig von Mises
The comparatively greater prosperity of the United States is an outcome of the fact that the New Deal did not come in 1900 or 1910, but only in 1933.
Ludwig von Mises
Only to bureaucrats can the idea occur that establishing new offices, promulgating new decrees, and increasing the number of government employees alone can be described as positive and beneficial measures.
Ludwig von Mises
All those evils which the [liberals] interpret as evidence of the failure of capitalism, are the necessary outcome of interference with the market.
Ludwig von Mises
The main political problem is how to prevent the police power from becoming tyrannical. This is the meaning of all the struggles for liberty.
Ludwig von Mises
The first socialists were the intellectuals they, and not the masses, are the backbone of Socialism.
Ludwig von Mises
Tyranny is the political corollary of socialism, as representative government is the political corollary of the market economy.
Ludwig von Mises
The bureaucrat is not free to aim at improvement. He is bound to obey rules and regulations established by a superior body. He has no right to embark upon innovations if his superiors do not approve of them. His duty and his virtue is to be obedient.
Ludwig von Mises
You call it a 'loophole' when the government still allows you some freedom.
Ludwig von Mises
