Market Quotes

There is no such thing as a free market.

I think the free market model of commercial trade openness - this model has undoubtedly shown enormous benefits for nations, for those of us that follow this model, of course.

While Argentina, Brazil, and Chile - what in textbooks used to be called the ABC countries - seem settled into democratic politics and free market economics, the Andean countries are in disarray.

Tell me, what do they do for us in Bulgaria? Do they fix the prices? Or is there some kind of a free market?

The strategic partnership between the European Union and the United States is rooted in our shared values of freedom, human rights, democracy and a belief in the market economy.

The Internet is a powerful example of free speech and the free market in action; it is curious that the Net has alarmed the lawmakers of a nation founded on those principles.

None of us would trade freedom of expression for the narrowness of the public censor. America is a free market for people who have something to say, and need not fear to say it.

Do your own market research; ask your last ten customers exactly why they bought from you.

While rising delinquencies and foreclosures will continue to weigh heavily on the housing market this year, it will not cripple the U.S.

Accustomed to the veneer of noise, to the shibboleths of promotion, public relations, and market research, society is suspicious of those who value silence.

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.

What vitiates entirely the socialists economic critique of capitalism is their failure to grasp the sovereignty of the consumers in the market economy.

The market economy-capitalism-is a social system of consumers' supremacy.

There is no kind of freedom and liberty other than the kind which the market economy brings about.

Our mail product, Hotmail, is the market leader globally.

There is no free market for oil.

The United States has grown into a remarkable nation specifically because of our independent spirit and free market.

It is the new and different that is always most vulnerable to market research.

No one spends someone elses money as carefully as he spends his own.

The only salvation of the world today... is the rapid dissemination of the basic values of the West, that is, the ideas of democracy, human rights, the civil society, and the free market.

The public has been sold a bill of goods about the free market being a panacea for mankind.

It has been true in Western societies and it seems to be true elsewhere that you do not find democratic systems apart from capitalism, or apart from a market economy, if you prefer that term

There is no free market in oil.

The market system is the basis of our civilization. Its only alternative is the Führer principle.

Haitian rice farmers are quite efficient, but they can't compete with U.S. agribusiness that relies on a huge government subsidy, thanks to Ronald Reagan's free market enthusiasms.

I am not in favor of a traditional free market.

The truly free market is the worker's best friend.

A market economy is to economics what democracy is to government: a decent, if flawed, choice among many bad alternatives.

In a market economy with the division and specialization of labor, people use others as means to achieve their ends. This is the essence of market cooperation.

The protection of private property does more than promote market efficiency; it enhances the level of human freedom in the most intimate and personal parts of our lives.

Intrinsic value follows meaning follows form follows economics follows function follows more economics follows market research.

The free market is 'socialism' for the rich: the public pays the costs and the rich get the benefit - markets for the poor and plenty of state protection for the rich.

It is precisely through falling prices that the fruits of increased productivity and economic growth are spread throughout the market economy.

Forcing free market plans to compete with these government-run programs would create an unlevel playing field and inevitably doom true competition.

The free market is not only a more efficient decision maker than even the wisest central planning body, but even more important, the free market keeps economic power widely dispersed.

Where there is no market economy, the best intentioned provisions of constitutions and laws remain a dead letter.

Yes to market economy, no to market society.

Let us have the candor to acknowledge that what we call "the economy" or "the free market" is less and less distinguishable from warfare.

Free trade or the free market means the sovereignty of the consumer.

You can use principles of the free market to drive social change.

Against what is stupid, nonsensical, erroneous, and evil, [classical] liberalism fights with the weapons of the mind, and not with brute force and repression.

It would appear that, on the level of individual nations and of international relations, the free market is the most efficient instrument for utilizing resources and effectively responding to needs.

Nations that embrace the free market to the greatest extent prosper the most.

The Welfare State is merely a method for transforming the market economy step by step into socialism.

I don't believe all this nonsense about market timing. Just buy good value and when the market is ready that value will be recognized.

The Conservative sees in the free market the harmony of interests and rules of cooperation that also underlie the civil society.

Climate change is a result of the greatest market failure the world has seen...We risk damages on a scale larger than the two world wars of the last century.

We cannot have a free market since it does not really set us free. It's free for interest, speculation and consumerism to create false needs.

Market leaders continually chart the changing waters.

Voluntary association produces the free market - where each person can choose among a multitude of possibilities.