Business is a combination of war and sport. (Quote by - Andri Maurois)

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)