Capitalism Quotes

Do you understand economics? I mean big-time, prewar, global capitalism. Do you get how it worked? I don't, and anyone who says they do is full of shit.

My father was a slave to capitalist ideology. He didn't know what he was doing.""You mean you went to an expensive school?

Capitalism was a marvel, as long as you were a capitalist.

Free markets and capitalism are predicated upon the definition of greed as altruistic in economics".~R. Alan Woods [2012]

American Progressives have declared war on the sanctity and autonomy of the individual.

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

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

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

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

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

If you fail to plan you plan to fail.

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

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

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.

Live together like brothers and do business like strangers.

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.

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

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

Luck is infatuated with the efficient.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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%.

Christmas is over and Business is Business.

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

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.

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.

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

In economics the majority is always wrong.

Pounds are the sons not of pounds but of pence.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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