Captains Of Industry Quotes

• Great captains of industry are as rare as great generals

  William Graham Sumner

  Captains, Organize, Industry

  William Graham Sumner (1903). “What Social Classes Owe to Each Other”, p.46, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• The captains of industry are not hunting money. America is heavy with it. They are seeking brains - specialized brains - and faithful, loyal service. Brains are needed to carry out the plans of those who furnish the capital.

  Charles M. Schwab

  Hunting, America, Faithful

  Charles M. Schwab (2005). “Succeeding With What You Have”, p.12, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Then, again, the ability to organize and conduct industrial, commercial, or financial enterprises is rare; the great captains of industry are as rare as great generals.

  William Graham Sumner

  Captains, Financial, Ability

  William Graham Sumner (1903). “What Social Classes Owe to Each Other”, p.46, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• Great military leaders have to sacrifice soldiers; great captains of industry have to sacrifice people. You can't only look after the poor, and the weak, and the disabled. You've got to do what's best for the community, and that often means sacrificing innocent people.

  David Nasaw

  Military, Mean, Sacrifice

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• If we are the greatest nation the sun ever shone upon, it would seem to be mainly because we have been able to goad our wage-earners to this pitch of frenzy.

  Upton Sinclair

  Able, Sun, Frenzy

  Upton Sinclair (2016). “The Jungle”, p.196, Xist Publishing

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• Leaders: Captains of industry.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Leadership, Captains, Industry

  Past and Present title of bk. 4, ch. 4 (1843)

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• You can't talk about solving the economic problem of the Negro without talking about billions of dollars. You can't talk about ending the slums without first saying profit must be taken out of the slums. You're really tampering and getting on dangerous ground because you are messing with folk then. You are messing with captains of industry. Now this means that we are treading in difficult water, because it really means that we are saying that something is wrong with capitalism.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Taken, Mean, Talking

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• The greatest factors making for communism, socialism or anarchy among a free people are the excesses of capital. The talk of the agitator does not advance socialism one step. The great captains of industry and finance... are the chief makers of socialism.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Wisdom, People, Doe

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• As a rule, from what I've observed, the American Captain of Industry doesn't do anything out of business hours. When he has put the cat out and locked up the office for the night, he just relapses into a state of coma from which he emerges only to start being a Captain of Industry again.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Cat, Night, Office

  P. G. Wodehouse, David A. Jasen (1997). “Enter Jeeves: 15 Early Stories”, p.20, Courier Corporation

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• Very few of the heroes of the Golden Age of American finance had much interest in the solid realities of what underlay their structure of stocks and bonds and credits. Later on, a Henry Ford might introduce an era of intensely production-minded captains of industry, but the Harrimans, Morgans, Fricks, and Rockefellers were far more interested in the exciting manipulation of huge masses of intangible wealth than in the humdrum business of turning out goods.

  Robert Heilbroner

  Hero, Reality, Age

  "The Worldly Philosophers". Book by Robert Heilbroner, Chapter VIII, Thorstein Veblen (p. 224), 1953.

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• All day long this man would toil thus, his whole being centered upon the purpose of making twenty-three instead of twenty-two and a half cents an hour; and then his product would be reckoned up by the census taker, and jubilant captains of industry would boast of it in their banquet halls, telling how our workers are nearly twice as efficient as those of any other country. If we are the greatest nation the sun ever shone upon, it would seem to be mainly because we have been able to goad our wage-earners to this pitch of frenzy.

  Upton Sinclair

  Country, Men, Two

  Upton Sinclair (2016). “The Jungle”, p.227, First Avenue Editions

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• The Captains of Industry have always counseled the rest of us "to be realistic." Let us, therefore, be realistic. Is it realistic to assume that the present economy would be just fine if only it would stop poisoning the air and water, or if only it would stop soil erosion, or if only it would stop degrading watersheds and forest ecosystems, or if only it would stop seducing children, or if only it would stop buying politicians, or if only it would give women and favored minorities an equitable share of the loot?

  Wendell Berry

  Children, Air, Ecosystems

  Wendell Berry (2001). “In the Presence of Fear: Three Essays for a Changed World”

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• I wanted to be some kind of captain of industry. Then I wanted to be in advertising, and then I wanted to be a newspaper reporter.

  Ken Follett

  Captains, Kind, Advertising

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