Capitalism Quotes

Capitalism Quote of the day

Those who find it hypocritical of others to use, say, a smartphone, to speak ill of capitalism, needs to be reminded that capitalism is an ideology, not a technology.

The Master said, “A true gentleman is one who has set his heart upon the Way. A fellow who is ashamed merely of shabby clothing or modest meals is not even worth conversing with.”(Analects 4.9)

The Master said, “If your conduct is determined solely by considerations of profit you will arouse great resentment.

The Master said, “The gentleman understands what is right, whereas the petty man understands profit.”(Analects 4.16)

The bank - the monster has to have profits all the time. It can't wait. It'll die. No, taxes go on. When the monster stops growing, it dies. It can't stay one size.

The bourgeois during its rule of scarce one hundred years, has created more massive and more colossal productive forces than have all preceding generations together.

The Master said, “The gentleman does not serve as a vessel.”(Analects 2.12)

Wall Street billionaires are predicting that Roosevelt-style railroad rate regulation will sooner or later bring about financial catastrophe. [ca. 1906]

Exchange, fair or unfair, always presupposes and includes the rule of the bourgeoisie.

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

I am a Millionaire. That is my religion.

By buying the power of the workman, the capitalist has, therefore, acquired the right to use of make that labouring power during the whole day or week.

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

And the great owners, who had become through the might of their holdings both more and less than men

We're sorry. It's not us. It's the monster. The bank isn't a man. The bank isn't like a man.Yes, but the bank is only made of men.

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

We’ve each given the hours of our lives in dull rote jobs for other men’s profit, and have been asked to be grateful for doing that.

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

Whenever you see a successful business someone once made a courageous decision.

The capitalists are the brains of civilization, because they supply the entire fabric of which all education, enlightenment and human progress consists.

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

[..] the great modern commandment - the eleventh commandment which has wiped out all the others: 'Thou shalt not lose thy job.

Capitalism tries for a delicate balance: It attempts to work things out so that everyone gets just enough stuff to keep them from getting violent and trying to take other people’s stuff.

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

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.

The Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them.

The only thing that counts in life is solid, material assets. It's no time for theories when everything is falling to pieces around us.

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.

In capitalist nation, all is decided by money.

All professions are a conspiracy against the country.

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

Profitability is the sovereign criterion of the enterprise.

I think that there is nothing not even crime more opposed to poetry to philosophy ay to life itself than this incessant business.

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

For capitalism to work, we all need one another.

Thu luxury of one class is counterbalanced by the indigence of another.

You can't have capitalism without racism.

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

I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.

Just as man is governed, in religion, by the products of his own brain, so, in capitalist production, he is governed by the products of his own hand.

The alienation of man thus appeared as the fundamental evil of capitalist society.

Capitalism: Teach a man to fish, but the fish he catches aren't his. They belong to the person paying him to fish, and if he's lucky, he might get paid enough to buy a few fish for himself.

Do you want to know the cause of war? It is capitalism, greed, the dirty hunger for dollars. Take away the capitalist, and you will sweep war from the earth.

The 'free' laborer, thanks to the development of capitalistic production, agrees, i.e. is compelled by social conditions, to sell the whole of his active life, his birthright for a mass of pottage.

In my opinion, the sun was made to light worthier toil than this.

I wanta buy stuff. Stuff I don't need... Stuff settin' out there, you jus' feel like buyin' it whether you need it or not.-Uncle John

Public services are never better performed than when their reward comes only in consequence of their being performed, and is proportioned to the diligence employed in performing them.

But every acquisition that is disproportionate to the labor spent on it is dishonest.

The rock and roll business is pretty absurd, but the world of serious music is much worse.

Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.