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Showing posts with label Profit. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Profit. Show all posts
Wednesday, 23 September 2026

“Every step toward the elimination of profit is progress on the way toward social disintegration.”

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“ A ll people, entrepreneurs as well as non-entrepreneurs, look askance upon any profits earned by other people. Envy is a common weakness o...
Monday, 15 June 2026

Production IS Profit

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  "[ O bserve] such meaningless phrases as 'production for use and not for profit.' ... Production   is   profit; and profit  i...
Tuesday, 9 June 2026

"In branding profits as excessive, people are injuring themselves."

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" I n branding profits as excessive and penalising the efficient entrepreneurs by discriminatory taxation, people are injuring themselv...
Wednesday, 4 February 2026

"Profit is the signal that a need was actually satisfied by voluntary choice"

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" W hat’s always evaded when people say 'capitalism is about profit, not needs' is that profit is the signal that a need was ac...
Tuesday, 20 May 2025

"The Greens' vision a pathway to Venezuela"

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"L ET'S STRIP AWAY THE political gloss and assess the Green Party’s 2025 budget for what it is: a document heavy on ideology, neo-M...
Wednesday, 7 August 2024

"Therefore, businessmen should be thanked for maximising profit, not condemned..."

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"C oncretely, profit maximisation consists in the maximisation of goods and services. Profit maximisation is moral only because the max...
Tuesday, 6 August 2024

"Production *is* profit; and profit *is* production. They are not merely related; they are the same thing."

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"[O bserve] such meaningless phrases as 'production for use and not for profit.' ... Production is profit; and profit is pro...
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Saturday, 11 May 2024

MILEI EXPLAINS: 21 Quotes to explain prosperity and economic freedom

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Why is Argentina leading the world? Because, says its president, "while in the rest of the world the ideas of freedom are under siege, ...
Wednesday, 20 March 2024

'Taxing profits is tantamount to taxing success in best serving the public'

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  “C apital does not ‘beget profit’ as Marx thought. The capital goods as such are dead things that in themselves do not accomplish anything...
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Saturday, 1 April 2023

REPOST: Lobbying + NZ's New 'Aristocracy of Pull'

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  Political lobbying and those parasites they call "lobbyists" are once again under the microscope, their double-dealings being sc...
Tuesday, 15 November 2022

Morgan Godfery is an idiot

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Morgan Godfery: idiot, hack, or wanker? You decide. [Pic borrowed from here ] Morgan Godfery, who is a ' senior lecturer ' at the Ot...
Thursday, 3 November 2022

ADAM SMITH: "High profits are not a sign of prosperity but an economy going fast to ruin."

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"W hat the intellectuals' [and politicians' ] hostility to profits and the profit motive ignores is that the quest for profit i...
Monday, 19 September 2022

"In fact, the primary problem in the Soviet Union was socialism."

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"O ne of the common denominators between Leninists and government interventionists in the West is the belief that the problems of monop...
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Monday, 29 November 2021

'Mystics of Spirit and of Muscle'

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"A s products of the split between man’s soul and body, there are two kinds of teachers of the Morality of Death: the mystics of spirit...
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Tuesday, 26 November 2019

"Reason, freedom and the pursuit of personal profit — if we can learn to embrace these three ideas as ideals, a magnificent future awaits." #QotD

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"Ask someone on the street to name a moral hero; if he isn’t at a loss, he’ll likely name someone like Jesus Christ or Mother Teresa...
Wednesday, 20 November 2019

"Keynesian economics was once only about getting an economy out of a recession. Now it’s about massive and permanent deficits coupled with massive and permanent forms of public waste" #QotD

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"There are economic idiots everywhere, but the biggest ones are the ones who think government infrastructure projects like this are g...
Monday, 11 November 2019

"There were a lot of 'dead ends' in Marx's theory that led him and his followers badly astray over the 170 years since he wrote The Communist Manifesto..."

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"There were a lot of 'dead ends' in Marx's theory that led him and his followers badly astray over the 170 years since h...
Friday, 13 September 2019

"It is absurd to contrast production for profit and production for use. On the unhampered market a man can earn profits only by supplying the consumers in the best and cheapest way with the goods they want to use." #QotD

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"It is absurd to contrast production for profit and production for use. On the unhampered market a man can earn profits only by suppl...