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To the grumbler who complains about the unfairness of the market system only one piece of advice can be given: If you want to acquire wealth, then try to satisfy the public by offering them something that is cheaper or

To the grumbler who complains about the unfairness of the market system only one piece of advice can be given: If you want to acquire wealth, then try to satisfy the public by offering them something that is cheaper or which they like better....Equality under the law gives you the power to challenge every millionaire.

Ludwig von Mises
Equality Under The Law, Offering, Giving

The market is a democracy in which every penny gives a right to vote.

Ludwig von Mises
Giving, Democracy, Pennies
Ludwig Von Mises (1947). “Planned Chaos”, p.12, Ludwig von Mises Institute

Do not give in to evil, but proceed ever more boldly against it.

Ludwig von Mises
Evil, Giving, Investing

The truth is that the government cannot give if it does not take from somebody...It is not in the power of the government to make everybody more prosperous.

Ludwig von Mises
Government, Giving, Doe

Inequality of wealth and incomes is an essential feature of the market economy. It is the implement that makes the consumers supreme in giving them the power to force all those engaged in production to comply with their orders. It forces all those engaged in production to the utmost exertion in the service of the consumers. It makes competition work. He who best serves the consumers profits most and accumulates riches.

Ludwig von Mises
Order, Giving, Competition
Ludwig Von Mises (1990). “Economic freedom and interventionism: an anthology of articles and essays”

Most of us have no sympathy with the rich idler who spends his life in pleasure without ever doing any work. But even he fulfills a function in the life of the social organism. He sets an example of luxury that awakens in the multitude a consciousness of new needs and gives industry the incentive to fulfill them.

Ludwig von Mises
Luxury, Giving, Example

Science does not give us absolute and final certainty. It only gives us assurance within the limits of our mental abilities and the prevailing state of scientific thought.

Ludwig von Mises
Giving, Doe, Finals
Ludwig Von Mises, Israël M. Kirzner (1982). “Method, Process, and Austrian Economics: Essays in Honor of Ludwig Von Mises”, Lexington, Mass. : Lexington Books

The government pretends to be endowed with the mystical power to accord favors out of an inexhaustible horn of plenty. It is both omniscient and omnipotent. It can by a magic wand create happiness and abundance. The truth is the government cannot give if it does not take from somebody.

Ludwig von Mises
Government, Giving, Magic
Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Bureaucracy: The Economist”, p.78, VM eBooks

Within the market society each serves all his fellow citizens and each is served by them. It is a system of mutual exchange of services and commodities, a mutual giving, and receiving.

Ludwig von Mises
Giving, Receiving, Citizens
Ludwig Von Mises (1985). “Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War”, Libertarian Press

The capitalist system of production is an economic democracy in which every penny gives a right to vote. The consumers are the sovereign people. The capitalists, the entrepreneurs, and the farmers are the people's mandatories. If they do not obey, if they fail to produce, at the lowest possible cost, what

Ludwig von Mises
People, Giving, Entrepreneur
Ludwig Von Mises (1944). “Bureaucracy”

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