32 Quotes Tagged: trade

The law is guilty of the evils it is supposed to punish.

Entrepreneurial capitalism takes more people out of poverty than aid.

A society that chooses between capitalism and socialism does not choose between two social systems; it chooses between social cooperation and the disintegration of society.

Without trade the world will become what it was once — a hell where only the strongest arm and the heaviest lash was law. The meek will never inherit the earth. Aye, but at least they can be protected by law to live out their lives as they wish.

Whenever someone starts talking about 'fair competition' or indeed, about 'fairness' in general, it is time to keep a sharp eye on your wallet, for it is about to be picked.

Man has rights because they are natural rights. They are grounded in the nature of man: the individual's capacity for conscious choice, the necessity for him to use his mind and energy to adopt goals and values, to find out about the world, to pursue his ends in order to survive and prosper, his capacity and need to communicate and interact with other human beings and to participate in the division of labor.

Sooner or later every war of trade becomes a war of blood.

Libertarians make no exceptions to the golden rule and provide no moral loophole, no double standard, for government.

You mean that this is a matter of patriotism and traders aren't patriotic?
"Notoriously not. Pioneers never are."

"In working-class France, when an apprentice got hurt, or when he got tired, the experienced workers said "It is the trade entering his body.

Mother Atkinson thought that every one should have a trade, or something to make a living out of , for rich people may grow poor, you know, and poor people have to work.... so when I saw how happy and independent those young ladies were, I wanted to have a trade, and then it wouldn't matter about money, though I like to have it well enough.

Rhetorical bombast, music and song resound, banners wave, flowers and colors serve as symbols, and the leaders seek to attach their followers to their own person. Liberalism has nothing to do with all this. It has no party flower and no party color, no party song and no party idols, no symbols and no slogans. It has the substance and the arguments. These must lead it to victory.

"You mean that this is a matter of patriotism and traders aren't patriotic?"
"Notoriously not. Pioneers never are."

There are two methods, or means, and only two, whereby man's needs and desires can be satisfied. One is the production and exchange of wealth; this is the economic means. The other is the uncompensated appropriation of wealth produced by others; this is the political means.

Trade isn't about goods. Trade is about information. Goods sit in the warehouse until information moves them.