Henry Hazlitt Quotes
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Henry Hazlitt Famous Quotes & Sayings
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The typical political ploy was to load up benefits in the present and push costs into the future. Yet that future always arrived;
A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means.
Each of us must also sell something, even if for most of us it is our own services rather than goods, in order to get the purchasing power to buy.
A man will put forth greater efforts to save himself from ruin than he will merely to improve his position.
Capitalism will continue to eliminate mass poverty in more and more places and to an increasingly marked extent if it is merely permitted to do so.
The idea that an expanding economy implies that all industries must be simultaneously expanding is a profound error.
There is no limit to the amount of work to be done as long as any human need or wish that work could fill remains unsatisfied.
Practically all government attempts to redistribute wealth and income tend to smother productive incentives and lead toward general impoverishment.
The 'private sector' of the economy is, in fact, the voluntary sector; and the 'public sector' is, in fact, the coercive sector.
What a commodity has cost to produce in the past cannot determine its value. That will depend on the present relationship of supply and demand.
Bureaucrats denounce private enterprise for the consequences of their own reckless policies and demand still more governmental controls.
The real solution to the problem of poverty consists in finding how to increase the employment and earning power of the poor.
For every alleged benefit that the politicians confer upon us, they must necessarily deprive us of something else.
No man burns down his own house on the theory that the need to rebuild it will stimulate his energies.
Need is not demand. Effective economic demand requires not merely need but corresponding purchasing power.
In a thousand fields the welfarists, statists, socialists, and interventionists are daily driving for more restrictions on individual liberty.
Contrary to age-old prejudices, the wealth of the rich is not the cause of the poverty of the poor, but helps to alleviate that poverty.
Nothing is easier to achieve than full employment, once it is divorced from the goal of full production and taken as an end in itself
It is typical of government price-fixing schemes that they escape one undesired consequence only by plunging into another and usually worse one.
Prolonged inflation never 'stimulates' the economy. On the contrary, it unbalances, disrupts, and misdirects production and employment.
It is best to avoid analogy except for purposes of suggestion, or as a rhetorical device for explaining an idea already arrived at by other means.
In order that one industry might grow or come into existence, a hundred other industries would have to shrink.
We can clarify our thinking if we put our chief emphasis where it belongs - on policies that will maximize production.
Diluting the money supply with paper is the moral equivalent of diluting the milk supply with water.
Real wealth, of course, consists in what is produced and consumed: the food we eat, the clothes we wear, the houses we live in.