Capitalism Quotes - Page 2

I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them.

Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.

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.

Norman Cousins

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?

Paul Getty

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.

Robert Townsend

Luck is infatuated with the efficient.

Persian Proverb

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

The big-business mergers and the big-labour mergers have the appearance of dinosaurs mating.

John Naisbitt

The corporation is an artificial being invisible intangible and existing only in contemplation of law.

John Marshall

The forces in a capitalist society if left unchecked tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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.

Priscilla Elfrey

To business that we love we rise betime And go to it with delight.

William Shakespeare

The white man knows how to make everything but he does not know how to distribute it.

Sitting Bull

There are an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job.

Peter F Drucker

There is only one social responsibility of business - to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits without deception or fraud.

Milton Friedman

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.

Robert Heller

Today's sales should be better than yesterday's - and worse than tomorrow's.

Old saying

Twenty generations ago - around the year 1390 - you had 1 048 576 ancestors. In the 21st generation of your family that number will double again.

Genealogical Research Library

We have yet to find a significant case where the company did not move in the direction of the chief executive's home.

Ken Patton

You are never giving nor can you ever give enough service.

James R. Cook

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%.

George Canning

Christmas is over and Business is Business.

Franklin Pierce Adams

People of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage.

J. K. Galbraith

Competition means decentralized planning by many separate persons.

Friedrich Hayek

Anti-intellectualism has long been the anti-Semitism of the business man.

Arthur Schopenhauer

No-wher so bisy a man as he ter nas And yet he semed bisier that he was.

Geoffrey Chaucer

As one retiring chief executive said to his successor "Yesterday was the last day you heard the truth from your subordinates."

Robert W. McMurry

Commerce is greedy. Ideology is blood-thirsty.

Mason Cooley

Crime is a logical extension of the sort of behaviour that is often considered perfectly respectable in legitimate business.

Robert Rice

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble-making individual.

James K. Glassman

The big print giveth and the fine print taketh away.

Monsignor J. Fulton Sheen

Expenditure rises to meet income.

C. Northcote Parkinson

I am a Millionaire. That is my religion.

George Bernard Shaw

If you fail to plan you plan to fail.

Old saying

It is an economic axiom as old as the hills that goods and services can be paid for only with goods and services.

Albert J. Nock

Man exploits man. Under communism it's just the opposite.

Russian saying

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.

Northcote Parkinson

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.

H.L. Mencken

Live together like brothers and do business like strangers.

Anonymous

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.

Fred S. Worthy

Mere parsimony is not economy . . . expense and great expense may be an essential part of true economy.

Edmund Burke

One of the best ways to persuade others is with your ears - by listening to them.

Dean Rusk

Remember that when an employee enters your office he is in a strange land.

Erwin H. Schell

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

You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot help the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer. You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.

John Henry Boetcker

Those who can do those who can't teach and those who can do neither administer.

Collet Calverley

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

Unchecked Corporate power leads to tyranny just like unchecked Government power.

J.Adam Snyder

My children are monsters, Kiro thought. And I am responsible. Perhaps if I had read them the haikus of Basho when they were little instead of that American manifesto of high-pressure sales, Green Eggs and Ham...

Christopher Moore

Marxist writers are generally either indifferent or mildly hostile to the anti-capitalist movement, which they see as no good substitute for the great projects of communism and social democracy. Now, in one sense this is quite justified[…] However, there seems very little reason to believe that a return to the tactics of the twentieth-century labour movement is going to achieve anything in the future… [W]hat is wrong with commodification is not commodification per se… Marxist tradition goes much further than simply recommending that the excessive power of capital be challenged and curbed. Historically, this tradition tends to assert that such a challenge can only be made by virtue of a direct challenge to the existing relations of production, conceived of as the basis for a social totality, and, crucially, that it can only be made by the proletariat, politically mobilizes as a ‘Class of Itself’. In concrete terms, this means that only the labour movement, being organized and mobilized on the basis of its class identity and demanding the socialization of the means of production, can mount such a challenge… This is where I, and the anti-capitalist movement, part company with classical Marxism… [A]nti-capitalist movement is characterized by a certain pluralism, an unwillingness to impose any one model of social organization, and a refusal of neoliberal hegemony not on the basis of a single class identity or even a single universal human identity, but precisely n the basis of a defence of such pluralism against neoliberalism’s tyrannical monomania.

Jeremy Gilbert

The new fashions sold in departmentstores had thrown skilled American seamstresses out of work, you see.They’d been displaced by immigrant girls doing piecework for a pittancein terrible sweatshops. I refused to patronize a garment industrythat exploited its desperately poor workers so heartlessly.And if that wasn’t enough to keep me out of stores, there was this aswell: I was determined to resist that shameless sister of war propaganda—the advertising industry.

Mary Doria Russell

History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics. Vested interests have never been known to have willingly divested themselves unless there was sufficient force to compel them.

B.R. Ambedkar

[A] great embarrassing fact… haunts all attempts to represent the market as the highest form of human freedom: that historically, impersonal, commercial markets originate in theft.

David Graeber

...capitalism does live by crises and booms, just as a human being lives by inhaling and exhaling.

Leon Trotsky

Femininity itself has become a brand, a narrow and shrinking formula of commoditised identity which can be sold back to women who have become alienated from their own power as living, loving, labouring beings.

Laurie Penny

Agent Jones switched to the big screen and a grainy video of MoMo sitting at his enormous desk, a swivel-hipped Elvis clock ticking behind his bewigged head. 'Death to the capitalist pigs! Death to your cinnamon bun-smelling malls! Death to your power walking and automatic car windows and I'm With Stupid T-shirts! The Republic of ChaCha will never bend to your side-of-fries -drive -through-please-oh-would-you-like-ketchup-with-that corruption! MoMo B. ChaCha defies you and all you stand for, and one day, you will crumble into the sea and we will pick up the pieces and make them into sand art.

Libba Bray

Work, then, institutionalizes homicide as a way of life. People think the Cambodians were crazy for exterminating themselves, but are we any different? The Pol Pot regime at least had a vision, however blurred, of an egalitarian society. We kill people in the six-figure range (at least) in order to sell Big Macs and Cadillacs to the survivors. Our forty or fifty thousand annual highway fatalities are victims, not martyrs. They died for nothing — or rather, they died for work. But work is nothing to die for.

Bob Black

Wake up America!The insurance companies took over health care!Wake up America! The pharmaceutical companies took over drug pricing!Wake up America! The speculators took over Wall Street!Wake up America!They want your Social Security!Wake up America!Multinational corporations took over our trade policies!Wake up America! We went into Iraq for oil!WAKE UP AMERICA!

Dennis Kucinich

Just as sex is a God-given instinct for the prolongation of the human race, so the desire for property as a prolongation of one's ego is a natural right sanctioned by natural law. A person is free on the inside because he can call his soul his own; he is free on the outside because he can call property his own. Internal freedom is based upon the fact that "I am"; external freedom is based on the fact that "I have." But just as the excesses of flesh produce lust, for lust is sex in the wrong place, so there can be a deordination of the desire for property until it becomes greed, avarice, and capitalistic aggression.

Fulton J. Sheen

The United States has never done away with slavery; we just stopped calling it such. These days, we call it free-market capitalism.

Michelle Templet

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