Market Quotes
Running a company on market research is like driving while looking in the rear view mirror.
I support freedom and I support a free market economy, but it should be a socially oriented market economy. I support globalization, but it should be globalization with a human face.
Those who believe that liberal democracy and the free market can be defended by the force of law and regulation alone, without an internalised sense of duty and morality, are tragically mistaken.
In the financial markets, hindsight is forever 20/20, but foresight is legally blind. And thus, for most investors, market timing is a practical and emotional impossibility.
The average investor's return is significantly lower than market indices due primarily to market timing.
The broader and more influential organisations of businessmen have acted to undermine the basic foundation of the free market system they purport to represent and defend.
You show me a polluter, I'll show you a subsidy. I'll show you a fat cat using political clout to escape the discipline of the free market and force the public to pay his production costs.
The barriers that renewables and efficiency face come less from our living in a capitalist market economy and more from not taking market economics seriously.
The trouble with a free market economy is that it requires so many policemen to make it work.
Multinational corporations and a market economy have transformed human beings into instruments of making money. Human beings should be the end. And money should be the means to an end.
The largest threat to freedom, democracy, the market economy and prosperity, is no longer socialism. It is, instead, the ambitious, arrogant, unscrupulous ideology of environmentalism.
We who live in free market societies believe that growth, prosperity and ultimately human fulfillment, are created from the bottom up, not the government down.
The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress.
The market economy as such does not respect political frontiers. Its field is the world.
Our target market is recreational bettors, but that doesn't mean we expel the wise guys. A big bet for us is maybe $10,000.
The free market is ugly and stupid, like going to the mall; the unfree market is just as ugly and just as stupid, except there is nothing in the mall and if you don't go there they shoot you.
We know that government intervention in the free market, and Argentine history has shown this, absolutely ends in a boomerang.
The investor's primary interest lies in acquiring and holding suitable securities at suitable prices.
Free market capitalism has done more for the soul of the human race than any other system. And it's created the highest standard of living.
The market economy is very good at wealth creation but not perfect at all about wealth distribution.
The whole world is an open, free market. No state can exist without the others.
Tyranny is the political corollary of socialism, as representative government is the political corollary of the market economy.
The greatness of America is capitalism, free market capitalism. The exceptionalism of American business.
Principles-and I have in mind such principles as states' rights or national sovereignty or the free market or pacifism-have a way of drying up while the sap of life goes flowing in another direction.
The policy of letting the free market determine the height of wage rates is the only reasonable and successful full-employment policy.
Capitalism or market economy is that system of social cooperation and division of labor that is based on private ownership of the means of production.
I don't even consider myself an environmentalist anymore. I'm a free-marketer. I go out into the marketplace and I catch the polluters who are cheating the free market.
To speak of 'limits to growth' under a capitalistic market economy is as meaningless as to speak of limits of warfare under a warrior society.
As we consider the fast pace of scientific and technological progress in our modern world, we must not lose our moral compass and give way to 'free market eugenics'.
The system of capitalism, of the market economy, is a system of freedom, of justice, of productivity. But these three virtues cannot be separated. Each flows out of the other.
Contrary to the vision of the left, it was the free market which produced affordable housing - before government intervention made housing unaffordable.
A day will come when there will be no battlefields, but markets opening to commerce and minds opening to ideas.
Contrary to the claims of some of my critics and some of the editorial pages, I am an ardent believer in the free market.
I'm a free market person, a free trader. But if we had a market in California, there would be competition.
People think the free market is a philosophy, they think that it is a creed. It is none of those things. Free market is a bathroom scale, it is a measuring tape, it's simply a measurement.
Inflation, being a fraudulent invasion of property, could not take place on the free market.
The costs of government are bound to be much higher than those of the free market. . .The State cannot calculate well and therefore cannot gauge its costs accurately.
Competitiveness is just as much a part of our nature as empathy. The ideal, in my view, is a democratic system with a social market economy, because it takes both tendencies into account.
The argument for the free market is a complicated and sophisticated one and depends on demonstration of secondary effects. I have confidence market efficiency will win out.
Even people who feel perfectly comfortable investing in the stock market and owning their own homes often have qualms about individual medical accounts or Social Security private accounts.
You'll learn more in a day talking to customers than a week of brainstorming, a month of watching competitors, or a year of market research.
