Capitalist Quotes - Page 30

• The Enron scandal calls into question the integrity of the entire capitalist system, which previously we assumed was based on honest, straightforward greed.

  Joel Achenbach

  Integrity, Enron Scandal, Greed

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• The capitalist class is interested in keeping the workingmen divided among themselves. Hence it foments race and religious animosities that come down from the past.

  Daniel De Leon

  Religious, Past, Race

  Daniel De Leon (1915). “Two pages from Roman history: I. Plebs leaders and labor leaders. II. The warning of the Gracchi”

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• Anti-Semitism is best understood as a virus. It has no logic. Jews were hated because they were rich and because they were poor; because they were capitalists and because they were communists; because they held tenaciously to an ancient faith and because they were rootless cosmopolitans, believing nothing. Hate needs no logic. It is a sickness of the soul.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Hate, Believe, Soul

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• In the ideology of the new Silicon Valley, work was for the owned. Play was for the owners. There was a fundamental capitalism at work: While they abhorred the idea of being a wage slave, the young men of Silicon Valley were not trying to tear down the capitalist system. They were trying to become its new masters.

  Katherine Losse

  Men, Play, Ideas

  Katherine Losse (2012). “The Boy Kings: A Journey into the Heart of the Social Network”, p.62, Simon and Schuster

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• Being a venture capitalist to me is like being more of a psychologist. So if you come to my office we have two chairs with a table in the middle. And we sit down and it's like, Tell me your problems.

  Keith Rabois

  Two, Office, Venture Capitalists

  "Lecture 14: How to Operate" by Keith Rabois, genius.com. November 6, 2014.

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• Capitalism is very far from a perfect system, but so far we have yet to find anything that clearly does a better job of meeting human needs than a regulated capitalist economy coupled with a welfare and health care system that meets the basic needs of those who do not thrive in the capitalist economy. If we ever do find a better system, I'll be happy to call myself an anti-capitalist.

  Peter Singer

  Jobs, Capitalist Economy, Perfect

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• The money pigs of capitalist democracy: Money has made slaves of us. Money is the curse of mankind. It smothers the seed of everything great and good. Every penny is sticky with sweat and blood.

  Joseph Goebbels

  Pigs, Blood, Sweat

  "The Nazi Party: A Complete History 1919-1945". Book by Dietrich Orlow, 2007.

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• He who eats in idleness that which he himself has not earned, steals it; and a capitalist whom the state pays for doing nothing differs little in my eyes from a brigand, who lives at the expense of passers-by.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Eye, Littles, Pay

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• When you struggle hard and lose money, you're a hero. When you start making money you become a capitalist swine.

  Terence Conran

  Struggle, Hero, Making Money

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• I try to shrug it off as a minor annoyance that whenever I do something successful, every capitalist out there wants a piece of the action.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Successful, Trying, Pieces

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• No faction is better or worse than any other. All come from the same mould; they are all products of capitalist influence in the working class movement. And they are a poison that destroys our Party and the working class movement in Korea.

  Kim Jong Il

  Party, Korea, Class

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Marx's theory that only capitalists benefit from capitalism and workers are exploited was completely wrong. Nothing could have been further from the truth. Workers earned more as economies grew.

  Kenneth Rogoff

  Benefits, Economy, Theory

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• If we ever do find a better system, I'll be happy to call myself an anti-capitalist.

  Peter Singer

  Basic Needs, Ifs

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• I am a socialist in ideology, a capitalist in methodology.

  Maurice Strong

  Methodology, Socialist, Ideology

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• Only one more indispensable massacre of Capitalists or Communists or Fascists or Christians or Heretics, and there we are in the Golden Future.

  Aldous Huxley

  Christian, Golden, Communist

  Aldous Huxley (1953). “The collected works of Aldous Huxley”

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• When capitalists are thwarted, deflected, or dispossessed, the generals and politicians,... and socialist intellectuals, are always amazed at how quickly the great physical means of production - the contested tokens of wealth and resources of nature - dissolve into so much scrap, ruined concrete, snarled wire, and wilderness.

  George Gilder

  Mean, Wire, Wealth

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

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• Once the premise is accepted that poverty is never the fault of the poor but the fault of 'society,' or of 'the capitalist system, then there is no definable limit to be set on relief, and the politicians who want to be elected or reelected will compete with each other in proposing new 'welfare' programs to fill some hitherto 'unmet need.'

  Henry Hazlitt

  Welfare Programs, Relief, Needs

  Henry Hazlitt, Hans F. Sennholz (1993). “The Wisdom of Henry Hazlitt”, Foundation for Economic Education

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• The capitalist system has lifted mankind out of mass poverty. It is this system that in the last century, in the last generation, even in the last decade, has acceleratively been changing the face of the world, and has provided the masses of mankind with amenities that even kings did not possess or imagine a few generations ago.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Kings, Lasts, Poverty

  Henry Hazlitt (1996). “The Conquest of Poverty”

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• Capitalists have the tendency to move toward those countries in which there is plenty of labor available and at which labor is reasonable. And by the fact that they bring capital into these countries, they bring about a trend toward higher wage rates.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Country, Moving, Facts

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• There is no reason why capitalists and entrepreneurs should be ashamed of earning profits.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Entrepreneur, Earning, Reason Why

  Ludwig Von Mises (1974). “Planning for freedom, and twelve other essays and addresses”

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• Competition always tends to bring about the most economical and efficient method of production. Those who are most successful in this competition will acquire more capital to increase their production still further; those who are least successful will be forced out of the field. So capitalist production tends constantly to be drawn into the hands of the most efficient.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Successful, Hands, Competition

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• For society, the Internet is wonderful, but for capitalists, it will be a net negative. It will increase efficiency, but lots of things increase efficiency without increasing profits. It is way more likely to make American businesses less profitable than more profitable. This is perfectly obvious, but very little understood.

  Charlie Munger

  Negative, Littles, Way

  Charlie Munger's comments on the impact of technology and the Internet at the 2000 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting, www.fool.com. May 1, 2000.

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• Harvard and Yale concentrated with venture capitalists that got the best calls and brainpower. Very few firms made most of the money, and they made it in just a few periods. Everyone else returned between mediocre and lousy. When returns happened, envy rippled through institutional money management. The amount invested in venture capital went up 10 times post-1999. That later money was lost very quickly. It will happen again. I don't know anyone who successfully resists this stuff. It becomes a new orthodoxy.

  Charlie Munger

  Yale, Envy, Venture Capitalists

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• In the two books I wrote, even though they were written in a sort of Joycean gobbledegook, there's many knocks at religion and there is a play about a worker and a capitalist. I've been satirising the system since my childhood. I used to write magazines in school and hand them around.

  John Lennon

  Book, Writing, School

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I don't believe the war is simply the work of politicians and capitalists. Oh no, the common man is every bit as guilty; otherwise, people and nations would have rebelled long ago!.

  Anne Frank

  War, Believe, Men

  Anne Frank (2011). “The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition”, p.164, Bantam

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