Quotes About Free Enterprise

#1. Boy did he hate banks. He told me once that the Founding Fathers worried more about banks than they worried about the British. They knew that banks had been causing chaos, bringing empires to their knees, for centuries, all in the name of free enterprise. Photographer

J.R. Moehringer

#2. President Obama wants to put free enterprise on trial.

Mitt Romney

#3. Everybody in America has been dependent on the government at some time. We owe everybody in America the right to vote and access to capital. What I say is, let's make America work, let's make democracy and free enterprise work for everybody.

Andrew Young

#4. The worst enslaving trait of all is greed. I rail against the substitution of money for worth. The idea that the endless accumulation of dead money can furnish a meaningful life to sold-out souls is the supreme lie offered by the system of free enterprise.

Gerry Spence

#5. For American foreign aid to become more effective, it must embrace the power of partnerships, access the transformative nature of free enterprise, and leverage the abundant resources that can come from the private sector.

Mitt Romney

#6. The whole global warming thing is created to destroy America's free enterprise system and our economic stability.

Jerry Falwell

#7. We stand for the maintenance of private property ... We shall protect free enterprise as the most expedient, or rather the sole possible economic order.

Adolf Hitler

#8. success and like free enterprise and all

William Gaddis

#9. I do feel we can create more jobs and opportunities for Jersey City residents, but in the spirit of free enterprise, I do not think it is right to force companies to hire a fixed percentage of local residents.

Vincent Frank

#10. You must distinguish sharply between being pro free enterprise and being pro business.

Milton Friedman

#11. To accept capitalism and Free Enterprise as articles of faith without agreeing that we must be free to consider whether what is offered is free and freeing is itself enslavement.

Gerry Spence

#12. In arguing against free enterprise capitalism, the collectivist always adopts the false assumption of a fixed number of jobs in that system. Conversely, in arguing for collectivism, he always assumes that there will be as many jobs as there are workers. The government will make the jobs.

Isabel Paterson

#13. Is advertising moral? It is part and parcel of the American free enterprise system ... I challenge anybody to show any economic system that has done as much for so many in so short a time.

Morris Hite

#14. Nw a kind of no-man's-land occupied by a neo-Elizabethan hugger-mugger of racketeers, drug dealers, gangsters and abortionists, the shark-toothed area seemed only a rowdier version of the city all around - a freewheeling, free-spending center of free enterprise.

Pico Iyer

#15. Free enterprise capitalism has been the most powerful creative system of social cooperation and human progress ever conceived, but its perception and its role in society have been distorted.

John Mackey

#16. Free enterprise makes people prosperous, all people prosperous, and big government makes people poorer.

Marco Rubio

#17. 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.

Ludwig Von Mises

#18. Whether we look at capitalism, taxes, business, or government, the data show a clear and consistent pattern: 70 percent of Americans support the free enterprise system and are unsupportive of big government.

Arthur C. Brooks

#19. The way to maximize production is to maximize the incentives to production. And the way to do that, as the modern world has discovered, is through the system known as capitalism - the system of private property, free markets, and free enterprise.

Henry Hazlitt

#20. And the word is capitalism. We are too mealy-mouthed. We fear the word capitalism is unpopular. So we talk about the free enterprise system and run to cover in the folds of the flag and talk about the American Way of Life.

Eric Johnston

#21. The virtues of free enterprise can become distorted by greed & delusion.

Allan Lokos

#22. Could there be anything resembling a free enterprise economy, if wealth and property were concentrated in the hands of a few, while the great majority owned little more than the shirts on their backs?

Ronald Reagan

#23. Free enterprise has done more to reduce poverty than all the government programs dreamed up by Democrats.

Ronald Reagan

#24. A program whose basic thesis is, not that the system of free enterprise for profit has failed in this generation, but that it has not yet been tried!

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#25. Free enterprise is the sure and so far the only known way of constantly improving the well-being of mankind.

Raymond C. Hoiles

#26. My view is the less the government can do and the more freedom and opportunity you give people, that trusting people and free people and free enterprise - that America has built the greatest country in the history of the world.

Rick Santorum

#27. That's free enterprise, friends: freedom to gamble, freedom to lose. And the great thing - the truly democratic thing about it - is that you don't even have to be a player to lose.

Barbara Ehrenreich

#28. Free enterprise means that the more enterprising you are, the freer you are.

Mark Victor Hansen

#29. Mitt Romney understands free enterprise, he has worked in it. He has seen companies succeed and he has seen them fail, too. He knows what people think about when they invest their money.

Marco Rubio

#30. Free enterprise is essentially a formula not just for wealth creation, but for life satisfaction.

Arthur C. Brooks

#31. What kind of competition is there in your body? Suppose your brain said ' I'm the most important organ, and the liver said 'I am, and I want to go in a free enterprise-system.' You would rot away in a month, if every organ of your body, were out for itself.

Jacque Fresco

#32. There's room in the Republican Party for anyone who wants to be a part of the values that we espouse when it comes to the role of government, free enterprise, free markets.

Michael Steele

#33. Those who yearn for the end of capitalism should pray for government by men who believe that all positive action is inimical to what they call thoughtfully the fundamental principles of free enterprise.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#34. The business world worships mediocrity. Officially we revere free enterprise, initiative and individuality. Unofficially we fear it.

George Lois

#35. There isn't a person at the Koch brothers events who would not get a good return on their investment by investing in [Santorum] as president, because of what they believe about the free enterprise system.

Foster Friess

#36. All I know is that D'Aubuisson is a free enterprise man and deeply religious.

Jesse Helms

#37. Free enterprise has done more to lift people out of poverty, to help build a strong middle class, to help educate our kids, and to make our lives better than all the programs of government combined.

Mitt Romney

#38. The free enterprise system has not failed; the financial system has failed.

Tony Blair

#39. I believe that there are barriers, educational barriers, cultural barriers, societal barriers, that are keeping people from accessing the promise of a vibrant free enterprise economy.

Marco Rubio

#40. I believe that without free enterprise there can be no democracy.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#41. No matter how deeply wedded one may be to the free enterprise system (and I, for one, am wedded for life), one has to accept the need for positive government; one has to consider government action on a sizable scale as desirable rather than as a necessary evil.

Peter Drucker

#42. The death of the MG marks the end of one of the most perfect products of free enterprise, born out of the voracious will to succeed of one man and the burgeoning market for middle-class status symbols. The car first appeared as a souped-up Morris Oxford in 1923 when it won the Land's End Rally.

Nick Davies

#43. If one examines the American idea of freedom, the individual, free enterprise, their Constitution, their political and economic structures as well as their mode of exploiting their natural resources, all these are shrouded in the idea of justice.

Ndabaningi Sithole

#44. Free enterprise empowers entrepreneurs who have ideas and imagination, investors who take risks, and workers who hone their skills and offer their labor.

Paul Ryan

#45. The left controls the media, the institutions of higher learning and the government. They preach against business, disparate merit, decry free enterprise and slander capitalism.

James Cook

#46. The Jacksonians were libertarians, plain and simple. Their program and ideology were libertarian; they strongly favored free enterprise and free markets, but they just as strongly opposed special subsidies and monopoly privileges conveyed by government to business or to any other group.

Murray Rothbard

#47. The ideals of free enterprise and global leadership, central to American conservatism, are responsible for the greatest reduction in human misery since mankind began its long climb from the swamp to the stars.

Arthur C. Brooks

#48. Nobody talks more of free enterprise and competition and of the best man winning than the man who inherited his father's store or farm.

C. Wright Mills

#49. I'm really focused on, is making sure that, for the broadest number of Americans possible, limited government and free enterprise, the principles that have truly helped build our country into an exceptional one, is one that is being sold to and appeals to the broadest number of Americans.

Marco Rubio

#50. I'm not pro-business. I'm pro-free enterprise.

Jeb Hensarling

#51. I'm a big believer in free enterprise. If people want to try it, then go for it.

Vince Flynn

#52. The basic rule of free enterprise: You must give in order to get.

Scott Alexander

#53. Trust free people and free enterprise as opposed to meddling, burdensome government.

George Allen

#54. Free enterprise system was born the second year the pilgrims were here. And of course, it has made America the most prosperous country in the world.

Ted Cruz

#55. There is a heavy emphasis in Mormonism on initiative, on responsibility, on a work ethic, and on education. If you take those elements together with a free-enterprise system, you've got the chemistry for a lot of industry.

Stephen Covey

#56. We must win the war on poverty by enlisting the greatest weapon ever invented - free enterprise

Jack Kemp

#57. Republican Party is the party that stands for the people who are trying to start a business out of the spare bedroom of their home, who are trying to give their kids a better life. And the only way that's possible is through the America free enterprise system.

Marco Rubio

#58. 'Socialize' means we turn more of our personal powers over to Big Brother, not free enterprise.

Robert Kiyosaki

#59. The Hollywood left insists on painting business persons as arch criminals, even though it's ridiculous. They like to depict free enterprise, capitalism and business leaders as a source of evil and criminality. Somehow they think that will influence enough people to further their left-wing agenda.

James Cook

#60. The only result of our present system - unless we reverse the drift - must be the gradual extension of the fascist sector and the gradual disappearance of the system of free enterprise under a free representative government.

John T. Flynn

#61. Provided that societies stay mindful of the challenges that capitalism creates and never forget the paramount importance of inclusion and equal opportunity, we can and should celebrate the miracle of free enterprise-and the billions of souls it has helped free from desperate poverty.

Dalai Lama

#62. A virtue of the free enterprise system is that it offers every individual the greatest opportunity for self expression.

Lawrence Fertig

#63. In order to secure our unlimited future, we need a leader who understands the moral case for free enterprise.

Sher Valenzuela

#64. Every nation on the Earth that embraces market economics and the free enterprise system is pulling millions of its people out of poverty. The free enterprise system creates prosperity, not denies it.

Marco Rubio

#65. Salespeople are the most vital people in any business. Without sales, the biggest and most sophisticated companies shut down. Sales are the spark plug in the engine of free enterprise. There is a direct relationship between the success of the sales community and the success of the entire country.

Brian Tracy

#66. With his economic speeches in response to Obama's 'you didn't build that' fiasco, Romney proved that he does have fire in his belly and that he is fervently dedicated to free enterprise, entrepreneurship and pro-growth policies.

David Limbaugh

#67. Free enterprise is a natural result of the American form of government, which says in so many words that the more men do for themselves, the less government does for them, the better off we will all be.

Felix Morley

#68. Ain't no better place than the US. This is a free enterprise system. You can get whatever you want in the US.

Howlin' Wolf

#69. Free enterprise has enabled the creative and the acquisitive urges of man to be given expression in a way which benefits all members of society. Let free enterprise fight back now, not for itself, but for all those who believe in freedom.

Margaret Thatcher

#70. Beware of that profound enemy of the free enterprise system who pays lip-service to free competition, but also labels every antitrust prosecution as a persecution.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#71. You beat 50 percent of the people in America by working hard. You beat 40 percent by being a person of honesty and integrity and standing for something. The last 10 percent is a dogfight in the free enterprise system.

Arthur L. Williams Jr.

#72. So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear: There is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system.

Michelle Malkin

#73. Gore Vidal, the American writer, once described the American economic system as 'free enterprise for the poor and socialism for the rich'. Macroeconomic policy on the global scale is a bit like that. It is Keynesianism for the rich countries and monetarism for the poor.

Ha-Joon Chang

#74. Any government, whether it is a democracy, a dictatorship, a communistic or free enterprise bureaucracy, will fall when its hierarchy reaches an intolerable state of maturity.

Laurence J. Peter

#75. Capitalism is supposedly free enterprise. Supposedly about the free individual. But capitalism itself is so massive that the guy on the street gets caught in paying rent, taxes, and he doesn't own himself at all.

Frank Capra

#76. Obamacare is a perfect tool to crush free enterprise and force all Americans into a socialist health care system.

Marlin Stutzman

#77. I believe that the free enterprise system is the greatest engine of prosperity the world's ever known.

Barack Obama

#78. Free enterprise runs on self interest. This is socialism and it runs on loyalty ... if people were going to live by comparison shopping, the town would go bust ... If you live there you have to take it as a whole. That's loyalty.

Garrison Keillor

#79. I think the free-enterprise system has been great for society. That doesn't mean it's completely perfect. And also, when people say capitalism, I'm not really sure what they mean.

Jamie Dimon

#80. For the majority of Americans, collectivist or nationalized economy is morally wrong and therefore unjust. For them, free enterprise meets their keen sense of justice.

Ndabaningi Sithole

#81. The free enterprise system does not leave people behind.

Marco Rubio

#82. The first cities to create friction-free enterprise zones will get a lot of entrepreneurial traction.

Mark Cuban

#83. The solution to our problems is not more paternalism, laws, decrees, and controls, but the restoration of liberty and free enterprise, the restoration of incentives, to let loose the tremendous constructive energies of 300 million Americans.

Henry Hazlitt

#84. If succeeding generations of Americans don't understand the concepts of justice, individual rights, free enterprise, capitalism, sovereignty or national security, there can be no guarantee that those concepts - or others like them - will continue.

George Nethercutt

#85. I believe the free enterprise system is not an economic alternative. It's a moral imperative.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#86. Those fighting for free enterprise and free competition do not defend the interests of those rich today. They want a free hand left to unknown men who will be the entrepreneurs of tomorrow ...

Ludwig Von Mises

#87. The devaluation of words and promises regarding free enterprise is, in principle, worse than the devaluation of the rouble

Dmitry Medvedev

#88. There's nothing wrong with the free-enterprise system. But it has to have some compassion.

Jim McDermott

#89. Free enterprise is a rough and competitive game. It is a hell of a lot better than a government monopoly.

Ronald Reagan

#90. There was free trade in Africa. There was free enterprise in Africa before the colonialists came.

George Ayittey

#91. I believe in singing for my supper. I'll never accept a grant because what I do should be able to be founded purely on free enterprise.

Russell Crowe

#92. There's no limit to what free men and free women in a free market with free enterprise can accomplish when people are free to follow their dream.

Jack Kemp

#93. Conservatism has always meant more to me than simply sticking up for private property & free enterprise. It has also meant defending our heritage & preserving our values.

Gerald R. Ford

#94. It's time to take Economics 101 to Washington. We believe in liberty, we believe in limited government, we believe in free enterprise, we believe in family values and the sanctity of human life, and we all believe Washington needs a good dose of Economics 101.

Kurt Bills

#95. Free-enterprise capitalism is the most powerful system for social cooperation and human progress ever conceived. It is one of the most compelling ideas we humans have ever had. But we can aspire to something even greater.

John Mackey

#96. While I am a great believer in the free enterprise system and all that it entails, I am an even stronger believer in the right of our people to live in a clean and pollution-free environment.

Barry Goldwater

#97. Competition is the hallmark of a free enterprise economy. For the past thirty years, however, corporate America has been doing everything it can to cut competition, with major corporations merging and consolidating at every opportunity.

Lou Dobbs

#98. Over the last 25 years, the American free enterprise system created the most diverse video programming on earth with the best value for the customer. It is disappointing that the updated report relies on assumptions that are not in line with the reality of the marketplace.

Kyle E. McSlarrow

#99. American prosperity and American free enterprise are both highly unusual in the world, and we should not overlook the possibility that the two are connected.

Thomas Sowell

#100. Fighting for free enterprise means standing up for free markets. The freedom to succeed includes the freedom to fail. We must defend entrepreneurial capitalism against the onslaught of the American Left.

Mike Pence