George Gilder Quotes About Capitalism

Quotes about: Capitalism

• Capitalism offers nothing but frustrations and rebuffs to those who wish - because of claimed superiority of intelligence, birth, credentials, or ideals - to get without giving, to take without risking, to profit without sacrifice, to be exalted without humbling themselves to understand others and meet their needs.

  George Gilder

  Sacrifice, Frustration, Giving

  George Gilder (1985). “The Spirit of Enterprise”, Simon & Schuster

• At the heart of capitalism is the unification of knowledge and power. As Friedrich Hayek, the leader of the Austrian school of economics, put it, "To assume all the knowledge to be given to a single mind... is to disregard everything that is important and significant in the real world." Because knowledge is dispersed, power must be as well.

  George Gilder

  Real, Heart, School

  George Gilder (2013). “Knowledge and Power: The Information Theory of Capitalism and How it is Revolutionizing our World”, p.4, Regnery Publishing

• In the history of enterprise, most of the protagonists of major new products and companies began their education

  George Gilder

  Enterprise, Company, Protagonists

  George Gilder (1985). “The Spirit of Enterprise”, Simon & Schuster

• In the history of enterprise, most of the protagonists of major new products and companies began their education - not in the classroom, where the old ways are taught, but in the factories and labs where new ways are wrought ... nothing has been so rare in recent years as an Ivy League graduate who has made a significant innovation in American enterprise.

  George Gilder

  Years, Ivy, League

• The prevailing theory of capitalism suffers from one central and disabling flaw, a profound distrust and incomprehension of capitalism.

  George Gilder

  Profound, Suffering, Flaws

  George Gilder (2013). “Knowledge and Power: The Information Theory of Capitalism and How it is Revolutionizing our World”, p.117, Regnery Publishing

• Capitalism begins with giving.

  George Gilder

  Giving, Capitalism

  George Gilder (2013). “Knowledge and Power: The Information Theory of Capitalism and How it is Revolutionizing our World”, p.238, Regnery Publishing

• Most of America's leading entrepreneurs are bound to the masts of their fortunes. They are allowed to keep their wealth only as long as they invest it in others. In a real sense, they can keep only what they give away. It has been given to others in the form of investments. It is embodied in a vast web of enterprises that retains its worth only through constant work and sacrifice. Capitalism is a system that begins not with taking but with giving to others.

  George Gilder

  Real, Sacrifice, America

• Giving is the vital impulse and moral center of capitalism.

  George Gilder

  Generosity, Giving, Moral

  George Gilder (2012). “Wealth and Poverty: A New Edition for the Twenty-First Century”, p.35, Regnery Publishing

• Creativity is the foundation of wealth. All progress comes from the creative minority. Under capitalism, wealth is less a stock of goods than a flow of ideas, the defining characteristic of which is surprise. If it were not surprising, we could plan it, and socialism would work.

  George Gilder

  Creativity, Ideas, Creative

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