Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barbara Tuchman

No economic activity was more irrepressible [in the 14th century] than the investment and lending at interest of money; it was the basis for the rise of the Western capitalist economy and the building of private fortunes-and it was based on the sin of usury.

The capitalist class shoots down mothers and children. It stops at nothing, no matter how monstrous, to prevent the organization of the workers.

Ludwig von Mises

Manufacturing and commercial monopolies owe their origin not to a tendency imminent in a capitalist economy but to governmental interventionist policy directed against free trade and laissez faire.

Cristina Kirchner

There is always risk involved. You can't be a capitalist only when there are investment profits but then a socialist when you experience losses.

Erno Rubik

But thanks to my invention, my capitalist friends and I were able to bring the government to its knees.

Nick Hanauer

A thriving middle class is the source of growth in a technological, capitalist economy. Investing in the middle class is the most pro-business thing you can do.

Andrew Mason

I look at being a capitalist businessperson like riding a bike - if I go too slowly, I'll fall over. Or it's kind of like a shark: if I stop swimming, I'll just die.

Ben Shapiro

Capitalism requires individual responsibility and accountability. People are seen as atomized units in a capitalist system - they are either useful, or they are not. They are not seen racially or ethnically or religiously. They consume and they produce, and those are their only relevant characteristics.

Janet Yellen

Will capitalist economies operate at full employment in the absence of routine intervention? Certainly not,

In essence, capitalist systems are a mechanism by which economies may generate growth in knowledge - with much uncertainty in the process, owing to the incompleteness of knowledge.

Alain de Botton

I love the idea of a university as away from capitalist values, where people can do things that don't immediately have to pay their way. It's like a monastery in a way, and that beautiful refuge has been destroyed by dogma about what this stuff is for.

Bill Gurley

I think one of the key differentiators I bring to the table as a venture capitalist is a solid understanding of the public markets and how they operate.

Muhammad Yunus

The profit orientation is only one orientation of a person. The same people who are interested in profit-making are also selfless. I am not saying that capitalist theory is wrong. I am saying that it has not been interpreted and practiced fully.

Pierre Omidyar

You can invest in companies, you can help grow companies, you can be a venture capitalist - and be a philanthropist at the same time.

Robert Kiyosaki

A true capitalist doesn't have a job, because other people and other people's money work for them.

Ayn Rand

In a capitalist society, all human relationships are voluntary.

Office workers should unite and stop work for one day in order to salvage the nation dominated by the capitalist dictatorial regime.

The miserable failures of capitalist economies in the Great Depression were root causes of worldwide social and political disasters.

This organization that we disrupted today embraced the American capitalist ideal and would sell any drug that would turn a profit and did not discriminate in its dealings with any other drug organization.

A capitalist economy goes through cycles, and 2000 was the peak in the latest cycle, which had lots of similarities to the 1960s and the 1920s. Now we're somewhere in this sort of troublesome period like the 1970s.

It's just not, in my opinion, fair competition. In this free world and capitalist society, you can't get something you're willing to pay for.

Ernest Mandel

Workers do not strike every day, they cannot do that the way they function in the capitalist economy. The way they have to live by selling their labor power makes that impossible.

Thank God we're a capitalist society and there's nothing wrong with running after money.

A venture capitalist would rather work with three large institutional investors who give him $50 million rather than 10 individuals who give him $5 million each.

Robert Solow

The key thing about wealth in a capitalist economy is that it reproduces itself and usually earns a positive net return.

India is not a capitalist nation and should never be a capitalist nation.

It's not like a venture capitalist is going to see a payback immediately or even in the next couple years.

If you happen to be in the right place at the right time, the capitalist system is a beautiful thing.

In a capitalist system, if things change, you adapt.

Ha-Joon Chang

Between the Great Depression and the 1970s, private business was viewed with suspicion even in most capitalist economies. Businesses were, so the story goes, seen as anti-social agents whose profit-seeking needed to be restrained for other, supposedly loftier, goals, such as justice, social harmony, protection of the weak and even national glory.

Karl Marx

One capitalist always kills many.

Lee Harvey Oswald

I am a communist and a worker, and I have lived in a decadent capitalist society where the workers are slaves.

Peter Scott

By the middle of the next century, China will be a great capitalist economy, ... I don't think anything can happen in the next few weeks or months to change that.