Best Quotes About Capitalism (Top 71)
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Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.
Edward Abbey
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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 seize it with both hands and make the most of it.
Al Capone
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Capitalism is the legitimate racket of the ruling class.
Al Capone
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Fascism is capitalism plus murder.
Upton Sinclair
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Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men for the nastiest of motives will somehow work together for the benefit of all.
John Maynard Keynes
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The white man knows how to make everything, but he does not know how to distribute it.
Sitting Bull
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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.
Adam Smith
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Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower classes.
Oswald Spengler
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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.
Adam Smith
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Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.
John Kenneth Galbraith
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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."
Bertrand Russell
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Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden.
Orson Scott Card
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Capitalism inevitably and by virtue of the very logic of its civilization creates, educates and subsidizes a vested interest in social unrest.
Joseph A. Schumpeter
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One of the best ways to persuade others is with your ears by listening to them.
Dean Rusk
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It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.
Henry Ford
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Expenditures rise to meet income.
C. Northcote Parkinson
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Liberal capitalism is not at all the Good of humanity. Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
Alain Badiou
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A corporation is an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law.
John Marshall
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Capitalism without bankruptcy is like Christianity without hell.
Frank Borman
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The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.
Jawaharlal Nehru
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The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.
Aristotle Onassis
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What breaks capitalism, all that will ever break capitalism, is capitalists. The faster they run the more strain on their heart.
Raymond Williams
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If Botticelli were alive today he'd be working for Vogue.
Peter Ustinov
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The unpleasant and unacceptable face of capitalism.
Edward Heath
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Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
John D. Rockefeller
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The basic law of capitalism is you or I, not both you and I.
Karl Liebknecht
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Few great men would have got past personnel.
Paul Goodman
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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 twenty per cent.
George Canning
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The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.
John D. Rockefeller
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Fascism is capitalism in decay.
Vladimir Lenin
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Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.
Lord Chesterfield
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All professions are conspiracies against the laity.
George Bernard Shaw
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World wide capitalism kills more people everyday then Hitler did. And he was crazy.
Ken Livingstone
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A businessman is a hybrid of a dancer and a calculator.
Paul Valery
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I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.
Henry David Thoreau
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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.
Will Rogers
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Corporations cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed, nor excommunicated, for they have no souls.
Edward Coke
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One man's wage increase is another man's price increase.
Harold Wilson
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In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.
Laurence J. Peter
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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.
Conrad Black
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The business of America is business.
Calvin Coolidge
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The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.
Henry Ford
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We have two evils to fight, capitalism and racism. We must destroy both racism and capitalism.
Huey Newton
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Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.
Geoffrey Chaucer
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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.
John Naisbitt
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Fact is Our Lord knew all about the power of money: He gave capitalism a tiny niche in His scheme of things, He gave it a chance, He even provided a first installment of funds. Can you beat that? It's so magnificent. God despises nothing. After all, if the deal had come off, Judas would probably have endowed sanatoriums, hospitals, public libraries or laboratories.
Georges Bernanos
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If I had to give a definition of capitalism I would say: the process whereby American girls turn into American women.
Christopher Hampton
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These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people.
Abraham Lincoln
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Criminal: a person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.
Howard Scott
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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.
Ayn Rand
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Pounds are the sons, not of pounds, but of pence.
Charles Buxton
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Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better.
Niccolo Machiavelli
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Capitalism is what people do if you leave them alone.
Kenneth Minogue
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In the history of enterprise, most of the protagonists of major new products and companies began their education - 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.
George Gilder
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I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them.
Harold Geneen
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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.
Mikhail Gorbachev
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The dynamo of our economic system is self-interest which may range from mere petty greed to admirable types of self-expression.
Felix Frankfurter
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The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchill
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History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom
Milton Friedman
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Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.
Mahatma Gandhi
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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.
John Maynard Keynes
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Capitalism is an art form, an Apollonian fabrication to rival nature. It is hypocritical for feminists and intellectuals to enjoy the pleasures and conveniences of capitalism while sneering at it. Everyone born into capitalism has incurred a debt to it. Give Caesar his due.
Camille Paglia
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Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.
George Bernard Shaw
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Power over a man's subsistence is power over his will.
Alexander Hamilton
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Without some dissimulation no business can be carried on at all.
Lord Chesterfield
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In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country, capitalism triumphed over democracy.
Fran Lebowitz
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Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
Peter Drucker
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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.
John Maynard Keynes
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Capitalism is our only moral system. All other systems take advantage of man's rights and liberties.
Ayn Rand
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The happiest time in a man's life is when he is in the red hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.
Josh Billings
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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.
Bill Gates