Ludwig von Mises: "Big business depends entirely on the patronage of those who buy its products: the biggest enterprises loses its power and its influence when it loses its customers." - Economic Policy
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| Ludwig von Mises | Men cannot be made happy against their will. | Liberalism | p. 46 | Happiness |
| Ludwig von Mises | Nobody is in a position to decree what should make a fellow man happier. | Human Action | p. 14; p. 14 | Happiness |
| Ludwig von Mises | Each individual is the only and final arbiter in matters concerning his own satisfaction and happiness. | Theory and History | p. 13 | Happiness |
| Ludwig von Mises | Nobody is called upon to determine what could make another man happier or less unhappy. | Planning for Freedom | p. 118 | Happiness |
| Ludwig von Mises | You do not increase the happiness of a man eager to attend a performance of Abies Irish Rose by forcing him to attend a perfect performance of Hamlet instead. You may deride his poor taste. But he alone is supreme in matters of his own satisfaction. | Bureaucracy | pp. 9091 | Happiness |
| Ludwig von Mises | There is no means of comparing and measuring the happiness of different people and of the same people at different times. | Human Action | p. 617; p. 621 | Happiness |
| Ludwig von Mises | If a man drinks wine and not water I cannot say he is acting irrationally. At most I can say that in his place I would not do so. But his pursuit of happiness is his own business, not mine. | Socialism | p. 405 | Happiness |
| Ludwig von Mises | Man is not evil merely because he wants to enjoy pleasure and avoid painin other words, to live. Renunciation, abnegation, and self-sacrifice are not good in themselves. | Socialism | p. 409 | Happiness |