Capitalism Quotes

You build on cost and you borrow on value.

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.

Management is now where the medical profession was when it decided that working in a drug store was not sufficient training to become a doctor.

Lawrence Appley

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.

Frederick Kappel

Benefits should be granted little by little so that they may be better enjoyed.

Niccolò Machiavelli

The price spoils the pleasure.

Whose bread I eat his song I sing.

All professions are a conspiracy against the country.

George Bernard Shaw

Labour is not a commodity or a standard or a means to an ulterior end but an end in itself.

George Brockway

Without some dissimulation no business can be carried on at all.

Lord Chesterfield

Along this tree From root to crown Ideas flow up And vetoes down.

A criminal is a person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.

Profitability is the sovereign criterion of the enterprise.

A company is judged by the president it keeps.

Inflation is defined as the quality that makes balloons larger and candy bars smaller.

General Features Corporation

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

It is not the employer who pays wages - he only handles the money. It is the product that pays wages.

Business is really more agreeable than pleasure it interests the whole mind . . . more deeply. But it does not look as if it did.

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.

John D. Rockefeller

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 - for the jobs - that are not provided.

J. K. 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.

To convert an hourly wage to an approximate yearly salary double the wage and change the decimal to a comma.

After an eight-hour day workers require three overtime hours to produce two regular hours of results.

Anonymous

Gross National Product is our Holy Grail.

When two men in business always agree one of them is unnecessary.

William Wrigley

The business of America is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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.

In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.

Laurence J. Peter

What recommends commerce to me is its enterprise and bravery. It does not clasp its hands and pray to Jupiter.

Henry David Thoreau

Business is a combination of war and sport.

Net - the biggest word in the language of business.

Big business is basic to the very life of this country and yet many -perhaps most - Americans have a deep-seated fear and an emotional repugnance to it. Here is monumental contradiction.

David Lilienthal

The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.

Aristotle Onassis

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.

Good management consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

John D. Rockefeller

All business proceeds on beliefs on judgements of probabilities and not on certainties.

Charles W. Eliot

Corporations cannot commit treason nor be outlawed nor excommunicated for they have no souls.

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.

Capital is past savings accumulated for future production.

Jackson Martindell

Power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will.

Alexander Hamilton

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.

If a cluttered desk is an indication of a cluttered mind what is indicated by an empty desk?

Anonymous

A businessman is a hybrid of a dancer and a calculator.

Had there been a computer a hundred years ago it would probably have predicted that by now there would be so many horse-drawn vehicles it would be impossible to clear up all the manure.

K. William Kapp

The Middle East is a region where oil is thicker than blood.

All business sagacity reduces itself in the last analysis to a judicious use of sabotage.

Thorstein Veblen

Expansion means complexity and complexity decay.

Northcote Parkinson

One man's wage rise is another man's price increase.

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.

Herbert J. Muller

When you've got them by their wallets their hearts and minds will follow.

Chaplin is no businessman - all he knows is that he can't take anything less.

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.

Milton Friedman

Barbaric accuracy - whimpering humility.

G. C. Lichtenberg

Patience is a most necessary quality for business many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.

Lord Chesterfield

A holding company is the people you give your money to while you're being searched.

In economics the majority is always wrong.

J. K. Galbraith

Pounds are the sons not of pounds but of pence.

Business? It's quite simple. It's other people's money.

Alexandre Dumas

A man isn't a man until he has to meet a payroll.

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.

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