Capitalism Quotes
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What kind of society isn't structured on greed? The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the least harm; capitalism is that kind of a system. (Quote by - Milton Friedman)
What's immediately profitable is the only kind of logic that capitalism understands. (Quote by - Susan George)
Few have heard of Fra Luca Parioli, the inventor of double-entry bookkeeping, but he has probably had more influence on human life than has Dante or Michelangelo. (Quote by - Herbert J. Muller)
When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary. (Quote by - William Wrigley)
Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still? (Quote by - Paul Getty)
In the last quarter of the eighteenth century bourgeois Europe needed to emancipate itself from that combination of feudalism and commercial capitalism which we know as mercantilism. (Quote by - C. L. R. James)
All business proceeds on beliefs, on judgements of probabilities, and not on certainties. (Quote by - Charles W. Eliot)
Mere parsimony is not economy . . . expense, and great expense, may be an essential part of true economy. (Quote by - Edmund Burke)
No-wher so bisy a man as he ter nas, And yet he semed bisier that he was. (Quote by - Geoffrey Chaucer)
While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser (Quote by - Karl Marx)
Contrary to the vulgar belief that men are motivated primarily by materialistic considerations, we now see the capitalist system being discredited and destroyed all over the world, even though this system has given men the greatest material comforts.(Quote by -Ayn Rand)
For capitalism, war and peace are business and nothing but business. (Quote by - Karl Liebknecht)
Today's sales should be better than yesterday's(Quote by - and worse than tomorrow's. (Quote by - Old saying)
Gross National Product is our Holy Grail. (Quote by - Stuart Udall)
Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon. (Quote by - Winston Churchill)
Natural capitalism is not about making sudden changes, uprooting institutions, or fomenting upheaval for a new social order. Natural capitalism is about making small, critical choices that can tip economic and social factors in positive ways. (Quote by - Paul Hawken)
Socialism is nothing more nor less than the social, political and ideological system which breaks the fetters upon economic growth created under capitalism and opens the way to a new period of economic and social expansion on a much larger scale. (Quote by - Earl Browder)
You build on cost and you borrow on value. (Quote by - Paul Reichmann)
The white man knows how to make everything, but he does not know how to distribute it. (Quote by - Sitting Bull)
One might have thought that the most significant change in the film industry that would come about with a transition from the communist economy to capitalism would fundamentally concern the sources of funding. (Quote by - Andrzej Wajda)
Patience is a most necessary quality for business; many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request. (Quote by - Lord Chesterfield)
With the exception of capitalism, there is nothing so revolting as revolution (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
Capitalism is not about free competitive choices among people who are reasonably equal in their buying and selling of economic power, it is about concentrating capital, concentrating economic power in very few hands using that power to trash everyone who gets in their way. (Quote by - David Korten)
Profitability is the sovereign criterion of the enterprise. (Quote by - Peter Drucker)
Barbaric accuracy(Quote by - whimpering humility. (Quote by - G. C. Lichtenberg)
The Middle East is a region where oil is thicker than blood. (Quote by - James Holland)
The manager with the in-basket problem does not yet understand that he must discipline himself to take care of activities that fail to excite him. (Quote by - Priscilla Elfrey)
History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition. (Quote by - Milton Friedman)
Publicity is the life of this culture - in so far as without publicity capitalism could not survive - and at the same time publicity is its dream. (Quote by - John Berger)
What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them! (Quote by - Henrik Ibsen)
The fundamental idea of modern capitalism is not the right of the individual to possess and enjoy what he has earned, but the ;thesis that the exercise of this right redounds to the general good. (Quote by ---ralph Barton Perry)
The Bell System is like a damn big dragon. You kick it in the tail, and two years later, it feels it in its head. (Quote by - Frederick Kappel)
The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens. (Quote by - John Maynard Keynes)
Along this tree From root to crown Ideas flow up And vetoes down. (Quote by - Peter Drucker)
We're not short of movements proclaiming that a different world is possible, but unless we can coordinate them into an international movement, capitalism just laughs at all these little organisations. (Quote by - Jose Saramago)
The problem with K-12 education is socialism and the solution is capitalism. (Quote by - Peter Brimelow)
Without some dissimulation no business can be carried on at all. (Quote by - Lord Chesterfield)
What breaks capitalism, all that will ever break capitalism, is capitalists. The faster they run the more strain on their heart. (Quote by - Raymond Williams)
In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. (Quote by - Laurence J. Peter)
I was just very interested in the American frontier and the growth of capitalism - those enormous fortunes that were being made, more often than not, on the blood of poor people, black people, Indian people. They were the ones who paid very dearly for those great fortunes. (Quote by - Peter Matthiessen)
One of the best-kept secrets in America is that people are aching to make a commitment, if they only had the freedom and environment in which to do so. (Quote by - John Naisbitt)
Despite a voluminous and often fervent literature on "income distribution," the cold fact is that most income is not distributed: It is earned. (Quote by - Thomas Sowell )
The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows. (Quote by - Aristotle Onassis)
Benefits should be granted little by little, so that they may be better enjoyed. (Quote by - Niccolo Machiavelli)
Big business is basic to the very life of this country; and yet many -perhaps most(Quote by - Americans have a deep-seated fear and an emotional repugnance to it. Here is monumental contradiction. (Quote by - David Lilienthal)
There are an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job. (Quote by - Peter F. Drucker)
The decadent international but individualistic capitalism in the hands of which we found ourselves after the war is not a success. It is not intelligent. It is not beautiful. It is not just. It is not virtuous. And it doesn't deliver the goods. (Quote by - John Maynard Keynes)
Corporations cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed, nor excommunicated, for they have no souls. (Quote by - Edward Coke)
Power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will. (Quote by - Alexander Hamilton)
We modern Marxists regard socialism as a historically brief transitional stage between feudalism and capitalism, necessary only in backward countries. (Quote by - John McCarthy)
Incendiary capitalism is carrying its out evil works more dangerously than ever, and is doing so in the increasingly dangerous neighborhood of the powder kegs that are the great European military powers. (Quote by - Karl Liebknecht)
As a rule, from what I've observed, the American Captain of Industry doesn't do anything out of business hours. When he has put the cat out and locked up the office for the night, he just relapses into a state of coma from which he emerges only to start being a Captain of Industry again. (Quote by - P. G. Wodehouse)
The paradigm of competition is a race: by rewarding the winner, we encourage everyone to run faster. When capitalism really works this way, it does a good job; but its defenders are wrong in assuming it always works this way. (Quote by - Richard Stallman)
Few great men could pass Personnel. (Quote by - Paul Goodman)
Inflation is defined as the quality that makes balloons larger and candy bars smaller. (Quote by - General Features Corporation)
All professions are a conspiracy against the country. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
There can be no return to prosperity while the government (of Ontario) believes that taking money from the people who have earned it and giving it away to the people who haven't, in exchange for their votes and regardless of merit, is the essence of fairness. (Quote by - Conrad Black)
You are never giving, nor can you ever give, enough service. (Quote by - James R. Cook)
We have two evils to fight, capitalism and racism. We must destroy both racism and capitalism. (Quote by - Huey Newton)
To convert an hourly wage to an approximate yearly salary, double the wage and change the decimal to a comma. (Quote by - Don Tichnor)
Capitalism attacks and destroys all the finer sentiments of the human heart; it ruthlessly sweeps away old traditions and ideas opposed to its progress, and it exploits and corrupts those things once held sacred. (Quote by - Daniel De Leon)
The market came with the dawn of civilization and it is not an invention of capitalism. If it leads to improving the well-being of the people there is no contradiction with socialism. (Quote by - Mikhail Gorbachev)
Capitalism justified itself and was adopted as an economic principle on the express ground that it provides selfish motives for doing good, and that human beings will do nothing except for selfish motives (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
Capitalism without bankruptcy is like Christianity without hell. (Quote by - Frank Borman)
I am going to fight capitalism even if it kills me. It is wrong that people like you should be comfortable and well fed while all around you people are starving. (Quote by - Sylvia Pankhurst)
The basic law of capitalism is you or I, not both you and I. (Quote by - Karl Liebknecht)
It has been true in Western societies and it seems to be true elsewhere that you do not find democratic systems apart from capitalism, or apart from a market economy, if you prefer that term. (Quote by - Peter L. Berger)
Business is more exciting than any game. (Quote by - Lord Beaverbrook)
The United States has practiced nuclear blackmail for many decades. (Quote by -Jr)
Good management consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people. (Quote by - John D. Rockefeller)
I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreauv)
Liberal capitalism is not at all the Good of humanity. Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism. (Quote by - Alain Badiou)
A holding company is the people you give your money to while you're being searched. (Quote by - Will Rogers)
Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower classes (Quote by - Oswald Spengler)
Despite what many Americans think, most Soviets do not yearn for capitalism or Western-style democracy. (Quote by - Dan Rather)
Conservatives have no understanding of modern capitalism. They have a distorted understanding of the traditional values they claim to defend. (Quote by - Christopher Lasch)
So what is so strange about saying I want Barack Obama to fail if his mission is to reconstruct and reform this nation so that capitalism and individual liberty are not its foundation? I want the country to survive. I want the country to succeed. (Quote by - Rush Limbaugh)
When you've got them by their wallets, their hearts and minds will follow. (Quote by - Fern Naito)
Capitalism inevitably and by virtue of the very logic of its civilization creates, educates and subsidizes a vested interest in social unrest. (Quote by - Joseph A. Schumpeter)
The happiest time in any man's life is when he is in red-hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it. (Quote by - Josh Billings)
In the history of enterprise, most of the protagonists of major new products and companies began their education(Quote by - not in the classroom, where the old ways are taught, but in the factories and labs where new ways are wrought ... nothing has been so rare in recent years as an Ivy League graduate who has made a significant innovation in American enterprise. (Quote by - George Gilder)
If allowed to run free of the social system, capitalism will attempt to corrupt and undermine democracy, which is after all not a natural state. (Quote by - John Ralston Saul)
Capitalism in the United States has undergone profound modification, not just under the New Deal but through a consensus that continued to grow after the New Deal. Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country. (Quote by - Norman Cousins)
Capitalism should not be condemned, since we haven't had capitalism. (Quote by - Ron Paul)
The business of America is business. (Quote by - Calvin Coolidge)
Expenditure rises to meet income. (Quote by - C. Northcote Parkinson)
The dynamics of capitalism is postponement of enjoyment to the constantly postponed future. (Quote by - Norman O. Brown)
There are people who don't like capitalism, and people who don't like PCs. But there's no-one who likes the PC who doesn't like Microsoft. (Quote by - Bill Gates)
I invested in many companies, and I'm happy this one worked. This is capitalism. You invest in stock, it goes up, it goes down. You know, if you don't like capitalism, you don't like making money with stock, move to Cuba or China. (Quote by - Terry McAuliffe)
Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs. (Quote by - Karl Marx)
There are no two countries with the same style of economic mechanism, with the same capitalism. (Quote by - Anatoly Chubais)
Net - the biggest word in the language of business. (Quote by - Herbert Casson)
Capitalism works better from every perspective when the economic decision makers are forced to share power with those who will be affected by those decisions. (Quote by - Barney Frank)
Capitalism is founded on greed and envy (Quote by - Charles Long)
Capitalism is war; socialism is peace. (Quote by - Karl Liebknecht)
Capitalism is what people do if you leave them alone (Quote by - Kenneth Minogue)
Those who can, do; those who can't, teach; and those who can do neither, administer. (Quote by - Collet Calverley)
I am a conservative Republican, a firm believer in free market capitalism. A free market system allows all parties to compete, which ensures the best and most competitive project emerges, and ensures a fair, democratic process. (Quote by - Sarah Palin)
I don't think that left to its own devices, capitalism moves along smoothly and everyone gets treated fairly in the process. Capitalism is like a child: if you want the child to grow up free and productive, somebody's got to look over the shoulder of that child. (Quote by - Tavis Smiley)
Capitalism is a stupid system, a backward system. (Quote by - Stokely Carmichael)
One of the most ironic things about capitalism is that the capitalist will sell you the rope to hang himself with. Actually they will give you the money to make a movie that makes them look bad, if they believe they can make money off it. (Quote by - Michael Moore)
America traditionally represents the greatest possibility of someone's going from nothing to something. Why? In theory, if not practice, the government stays out of the way and lets individuals take risks and reap rewards or accept the consequences of failure. We call this capitalism - or, at least, we used to. (Quote by - Larry Elder)
Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values. (Quote by - Tony Benn)
Capitalism is the legitimate racket of the ruling class. (Quote by - Al Capone)
Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone. (Quote by - John Maynard Keynes)
People of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage. (Quote by - J. K. Galbraith)
Labour is not a commodity, or a standard, or a means to an ulterior end, but an end in itself. (Quote by - George Brockway)
Whose bread I eat, his song I sing. (Quote by - German proverb)
The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the least harm, capitalism is that kind of a system. (Quote by - Milton Friedman)
The left is back, and it's the only path we have to get out of the spot to which the right has sunken us. Socialism builds and capitalism destroys. (Quote by - Hugo Chavez)
I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition. (Quote by - Fidel Castro)
The dynamo of our economic system is self-interest which may range from mere petty greed to admirable types of self-expression. (Quote by -Felix Frankfurter)
Capitalism has socialized production. It has brought thousands of people together in the factory and involved them in new social relationships. (Quote by - C. L. R. James)
A company is judged by the president it keeps. (Quote by - James Hulbert)
Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks. (Quote by - Karl Marx)
Under capitalism each individual engages in economic planning. (Quote by - George Reisman)
You can talk about capitalism and communism and all that sort of thing, but the important thing is the struggle everybody is engaged in to get better living conditions, and they are not interested too much in government. (Quote by - Bernard Baruch)
In economics, the majority is always wrong. (Quote by - J. K. Galbraith)
Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true. (Quote by -Polish Proverb)
The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty - of the indefinite expansion of possibility. (Quote by - Susan Sontag)
People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. (Quote by - Adam Smith)
Anti-intellectualism has long been the anti-Semitism of the business man. (Quote by - Arthur Schopenhauer)
There are a few people, but a diminishing number, who still believe that Marxism, as an economic system, off era a coherent alternative to capitalism, and socialism has, indeed, triumphed in one country. (Quote by - Herbert Read)
We can't fool ourselves that they will ever be enough to overthrow Capitalism. If we're serious about that we need to organise ourselves in our workplaces and communities, making the links with other workers internationally. (Quote by - John Blair)
The corporation is an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law. (Quote by - John Marshall)
Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work. (Quote by - J. C. Pollard)
It is an economic axiom as old as the hills that goods and services can be paid for only with goods and services. (Quote by - Albert J. Nock)
The big-business mergers and the big-labour mergers have the appearance of dinosaurs mating. (Quote by - John Naisbitt)
The Internet will help achieve "friction free capitalism" by putting buyer and seller in direct contact and providing more information to both about each other. (Quote by - Bill Gates)
All business sagacity reduces itself in the last analysis to a judicious use of sabotage. (Quote by - Thorstein Veblen)
Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it. (Quote by - Will Rogers)
If it is, in reality, capitalism that is the motor force behind the destructive forms of globalization, then it must be in their capacity to neutralize or transform this particular mode of exploitation that one can best test these various forms of resistance to the West. (Quote by - Fredric Jameson)
The kind of capitalism I hate most is crony capitalism, the friends who decide. These are things which should be killed in Russia. (Quote by - Anatoly Chubais)
Man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite. (Quote by - Russian saying)
Capitalism is not an economic system, but a world-outlook, or rather, a part of a whole world-outlook. (Quote by - Francis Parker Yockey)
The big print giveth and the fine print taketh away. (Quote by - Monsignor J. Fulton Sheen)
Christmas is over, and Business is Business. (Quote by - Franklin Pierce Adams)
Capitalism needs to function like a game of tug-of-war. Two opposing sides need to continually struggle for dominance, but at no time can either side be permitted to walk away with the rope. (Quote by - Pete Holiday)
The way the credit cards were made in the '80s to be a people's form of capitalism and be able to make it so that you could get a loan that you would have been denied previous, now that's the way stocks are. (Quote by - Jim Cramer)
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries. (Quote by -Winston Churchill)
Fascism is capitalism in decay. (Quote by - Vladimir Lenin)
It might be termed the Law of Triviality. Briefly stated, it means that the time spent on any item of the agenda will be in adverse proportion to the sum involved. (Quote by - Northcote Parkinson)
Capital is that part of wealth which is devoted to obtaining further wealth. (Quote by ---alfred Marshall)
For reforms ameliorate the situation of the working class, they lighten the weight of the chains labour is burdened with by capitalism, but they are not sufficient to crush capitalism and to emancipate the workers from their tyranny. (Quote by - Clara Zetkin)
Chaplin is no businessman(Quote by - all he knows is that he can't take anything less. (Quote by - Sam Goldwyn)
It is no longer an unwritten law of American capitalism that industry will attempt to maintain wages at a level that allows a single wage to support a family. (Quote by - Christopher Lasch)
All fingers are not alike, If you cut bigger ones to make all equal it is communism, If you stretch smaller ones to make all equal it is socialism, If you do nothing to make all equal it is capitalism. (Quote by - B. J. Gupta)
Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away. (Quote by - Fidel Castro)
Following the rise of the Labour Party it seemed reasonable, in 1927, to expect, or at least hope, that co-operation for the common good might gradually replace the competitiveness of capitalism. (Quote by - Dora Russell)
In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is offering too little and asking too much. The French are with equal advantage content, So we clap on Dutch bottoms just 20%. (Quote by - George Canning)
Crime is a logical extension of the sort of behaviour that is often considered perfectly respectable in legitimate business. (Quote by - Robert Rice)
To business that we love we rise betime, And go to it with delight. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed. (Quote by - Mahatma Gandhi)
I think Russians today have a distorted picture of capitalism, liberal democracy and market economy. (Quote by - Garry Kasparov)
The corporation is the master , the employee is the servant . Because the corporation owns the means of production without which the employee could not make a living, the employee needs the corporation more than vice versa. (Quote by - Peter Drucker)
Remember that when an employee enters your office, he is in a strange land. (Quote by - Erwin H. Schell)
As one retiring chief executive said to his successor "Yesterday was the last day you heard the truth from your subordinates." (Quote by - Robert W. McMurry)
Business? It's quite simple. It's other people's money. (Quote by - Alexandre Dumas)
What recommends commerce to me is its enterprise and bravery. It does not clasp its hands and pray to Jupiter. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)
One man's wage rise is another man's price increase. (Quote by - Harold Wilson)
I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them. (Quote by - Harold Geneen)
The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee. And I pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun. (Quote by - John D. Rockefeller)
It is because the fight against the harshest aspects of unrestricted capitalism is therefore a political problem and not an intellectual one that community action remains so essential. (Quote by - Barney Frank)
Expansion means complexity and complexity decay. (Quote by - Northcote Parkinson)
Pounds are the sons, not of pounds, but of pence.(Quote by - Charles Buxton)
The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization. (Quote by - Mikhail Gorbachev)
In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country, capitalism triumphed over democracy. (Quote by - Fran Lebowitz)
The historical debate is over. The answer is free-market capitalism. (Quote by - Thomas Friedman)
Capital is past savings accumulated for future production. (Quote by - Jackson Martindell)
A businessman is a hybrid of a dancer and a calculator. (Quote by - Paul Valery)
Lenin was the first to discover that capitalism 'inevitably' caused war; and he discovered this only when the First World War was already being fought. Of course he was right. Since every great state was capitalist in 1914. (Quote by - A. J. P. Taylor)
I am a Millionaire. That is my religion. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
A system of capitalism presumes sound money, not fiat money manipulated by a central bank. Capitalism cherishes voluntary contracts and interest rates that are determined by savings, not credit creation by a central bank. (Quote by - Ron Paul)
The big unions served a noble purpose once, and bless them for it. Now they're part of the problem and must give way if America is to move and to participate in management and achieve reasonable productivity. (Quote by - Robert Townsend)
If it were necessary to give the briefest possible definition of imperialism, we should have to say that imperialism is the monopoly stage of capitalism. (Quote by - Vladimir Lenin)
In the Europe which was created by the Second World War, divided into two blocks, each in need of a revolution that would end the abuses and injustices of capitalism and the privileges of a bureaucratic caste, collective faith does not exist. (Quote by - Juan Goytisolo)
Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble-making individual. (Quote by - James K. Glassman)
This American system of ours, call it Americanism, call it capitalism, call it what you will, gives each and every one of us a great opportunity if we only seize it with both hands and make the most of it. (Quote by - Al Capone)
Managers don't have to cook the books to manipulate earnings; they often have all the power they need in the leeway built into accounting rules. (Quote by - Fred S. Worthy)
Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Twenty generations ago(Quote by - around the year 1390(Quote by - you had 1,048,576 ancestors. In the 21st generation of your family that number will double again. (Quote by - Genealogical Research Library)
They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America? (Quote by - Fidel Castro)
Capitalism knows only one color: that color is green; all else is necessarily subservient to it, hence, race, gender and ethnicity cannot be considered within it. (Quote by - Thomas Sowell)
It is not the employer who pays wages - he only handles the money. It is the product that pays wages. (Quote by - Henry Ford)
One of the best ways to persuade others is with your ears(Quote by - by listening to them. (Quote by - Dean Rusk)
Fascism is capitalism plus murder. (Quote by - Upton Sinclair)
I was guilty of judging capitalism by its operations and socialism by its hopes and aspirations; capitalism by its works and socialism by its literature. (Quote by - Sidney Hook)
Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite. (Quote by - John Kenneth Galbraith)
The solid wealth of insurance companies and the success of those who organize gambling are some indication of the profits to be derived from the efficient use of chance. (Quote by - Edward de Bono)
I have said it already, I am convinced that the way to build a new and better world is not capitalism. Capitalism leads us straight to hell. (Quote by - Hugo Chavez)
By pursuing his own interest (the individual) frequently promotes that of the society more effectually than when he really intends to promote it. I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good. (Quote by - Adam Smith)
Capitalism and communism stand at opposite poles. Their essential difference is this: The communist, seeing the rich man and his ;fine home, says: "No man should have so much." The capitalist, seeing the same thing, says: "All men should have as much.". (Quote by ---phelps Adams)
Borders are semiporous. Capital flows more freely than people across them. on C Span. (Quote by -Noam Chomsky)
But we don't have an example of a democratic society existing in a socialist economy - which is the only real alternative to capitalism in the modern world. (Quote by - Peter L. Berger)
The New Deal's enmity for that system of free and competitive private enterprise which we call capitalism was fundamental. (Quote by - Garet Garrett)
The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.(Quote by - Jawaharlal Nehru)
Chicago is the product of modern capitalism, and, like other great commercial centers, is unfit for human habitation. (Quote by - Eugene V. Debs)
Luck is infatuated with the efficient. (Quote by - Persian proverb)
Competition means decentralized planning by many separate persons. (Quote by - Friedrich Hayek)
Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden. (Quote by - Orson Scott Card )
We have yet to find a significant case where the company did not move in the direction of the chief executive's home. (Quote by - Ken Patton)
The cure for capitalism's failing would require that a government would have to rise above the interests of one class alone. (Quote by - Robert Heilbroner)
Things have to be made to happen in a way you want them to happen. Without management, without the intervention of organized willpower the desired result simply cannot be obtained. (Quote by - Robert Heller)
In all modern depressions, recessions, or growth-correction, as variously they are called, we never miss the goods that are not produced. We miss only the opportunities for the labour(Quote by - for the jobs(Quote by - that are not provided. (Quote by - J. K. Galbraith)
It's not difficult in South Africa for the ordinary person to see the link between capitalism and racist exploitation, and when one sees the link one immediately thinks in terms of a socialist alternative. (Quote by - Joe Slovo)
World wide capitalism kills more people everyday then Hitler did. And he was crazy. (Quote by - Ken Livingstone)
There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants. (Quote by - Mao Tse-Tung)
Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate (Quote by - Bertrand Russell)
I believe totally in a Capitalist System, I only wish that someone would try it. (Quote by - Frank Lloyd Wright)
It takes no more actual sagacity to carry on the everyday hawking and haggling of the world, or to ladle out its normal doses of bad medicine and worse law, than it takes to operate a taxi cab or fry a pan of fish. (Quote by - H. L. Mencken)
Business is really more agreeable than pleasure; it interests the whole mind . . . more deeply. But it does not look as if it did. (Quote by - Walter Bagehot)
A man isn't a man until he has to meet a payroll. (Quote by - Ivan Shaffer)
I am convinced that the path to a new, better and possible world is not capitalism, the path is socialism. (Quote by - Hugo Chavez)
There is only one social responsibility of business(Quote by - to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits without deception or fraud. (Quote by - Milton Friedman)
Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision. (Quote by - Peter Drucker)
If I had to give a definition of capitalism I would say: the process whereby American girls turn into American women. (Quote by - Christopher Hampton)
I'm afraid for all those who'll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them! (Quote by - Henrik Ibsen)
Capitalism and the market are presented as synonymous, but they are not. Capitalism is both the enemy of the market and democracy. (Quote by - David Korten)
Capitalism is our only moral system. All other systems take advantage of man's rights and liberties. (Quote by - Ayn Rand)
These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people. (Quote by - Abraham Lincoln)
I don't think that capitalism should be unbridled, if by "unbridled" you mean unregulated. (Quote by - Chris Patten)
A criminal is a person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation. (Quote by - Howard Scott)
Commerce is greedy. Ideology is blood-thirsty. (Quote by - Mason Cooley)
