All LUDWIG VON MISES Quotes about “Competition”

“It is merely a metaphor to call competition competitive war, or simply, war. The function of battle is destruction; of competition, construction.”
“The public firm can nowhere maintain itself in free competition with the private firm; it is possible today only where it has a monopoly that excludes competition. Even that alone is evidence of its lesser economic productivity.”
“Those fighting for free enterprise and free competition do not defend the interests of those rich today. They want a free hand left to unknown men who will be the entrepreneurs of tomorrow.”
“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.”
“Competition on the market aims at assigning to every individual that function in the social system in which he can render to all his fellow men the most valuable of the services he is able to perform.”
“Servile labour disappeared because it could not stand the competition of free labour; its un-profitability sealed its doom in the market economy.”
“The sharper the competition, the better it serves its social function to improve economic production.”

More Ludwig von Mises quote about:

You may also like:

Adam Smith
Philosopher
Ayn Rand
Novelist
Carl Menger
Economist
Frederic Bastiat
Economist
Friedrich August von Hayek
Economist
Hans-Hermann Hoppe
Economist
Henry Hazlitt
Journalist
John Maynard Keynes
Economist
Llewellyn Rockwell
Author
Milton Friedman
Economist
Murray Rothbard
Economist
James M. Buchanan
Economist