Capitalism Quotes

Capitalism Quote of the day

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.