Moreover, there is an unearned increment on capital and on labor, due to the presence, around the capitalist and the laborer, of… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
It had been held that the economic system, any capitalist system, found its equilibrium at full employment. Left to itself, it was… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Capitalism is based on the principle that everything has to be privately owned; it can't be held in common. There is even… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
So far as Chairman Mao's own hopes were concerned, he initiated the "Cultural Revolution" in order to avert the restoration of capitalism,… — Deng Xiaoping Copy Share Image
Bush, and Blair, and the prime minister of Japan, and Berlusconi, these people are criminals, and they are responsible for mass murder… — George Galloway Copy Share Image
Outsiders think of Silicon Valley as a success story, but in truth, it is a graveyard. Failure.. is Silicon Valley's greatest strength.… — Michael Malone Copy Share Image
“Any capitalist . . . who had made sixty thousand pounds out of sixpence, always professed to wonder why the sixty thousand… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The United States of America or the Western countries, they don't have a problem with Islamists as long as they are neoliberal… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
The 'survival of the fittest' is beneficently inevitable; the capitalist is powerless against labor, unless the State . . . steps in,… — Ezra Heywood Copy Share Image
In capitalist society we have a democracy that is curtailed, wretched, false, a democracy only for the rich, for the minority. The… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
Patents make our product defensible." The optimal number of times to use the P word in a presentation is one. Just once,… — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share Image
The genius of capitalism consists precisely in its lack of morality. Unless he is rich enough to hire his own choir, a… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
Speaking of myself, I was made to realize long ago that the old trade union was utterly incompetent to deal successfully with… — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
Venture capitalists are professional money managers. We are provided capital to invest as long as we can return it to our investors… — Fred Wilson Copy Share Image
For society, the Internet is wonderful, but for capitalists, it will be a net negative. It will increase efficiency, but lots of… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Taxes are necessary. But the system of discriminatory taxation universally accepted under the misleading name of progressive taxation of income and inheritance… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
A cooperative enterprise is the key alternative to a traditional capitalist enterprise. All the workers, whatever they do inside an enterprise, have… — Richard D. Wolff Copy Share Image
I am one of those sort of "lesser" types, those sensitive types, those people who wouldn't have made it on their own… — Dar Williams Copy Share Image
In a capitalist system, there's a principle that if you invest, especially in a long-term risky investment, if something comes out of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If I'm to be an 'ist' then, like Bobby Kennedy, I'm probably more of a free market capitalist than an environmentalist. Rather… — Gord Downie Copy Share Image
After I began working, I realised there's no end line. I believe that money has nothing to do with your personal success.… — Shahrukh Khan Copy Share Image
The way in which these two practices contain each other is that it has always been possible to use the one against… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
Capitalist agricultural production prevents the return to the soil of its elements consumed by man in the form of food and clothing;… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
All systems are capitalist. It's just a matter of who owns and controls the capital -- ancient king, dictator, or private individual.… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Capitalism drives the employers to do their worst to the employed, and the employed to do the least for them. And it… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I call both the left and right wings socialism. And today, the right-wingers love to think that they're capitalists, or free enterprisers,… — Andrew Joseph Galambos Copy Share Image
The world is a big place. There are lots of smart people in it. Entrepreneurs are kidding themselves if they think they… — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share Image
For me upward social mobility is possible through talent and hard work and is a glowing endorsement of the benefits of living… — Alex Kapranos Copy Share Image
The capitalist system has lifted mankind out of mass poverty. It is this system that in the last century, in the last… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The capitalist has this over the politician and the clergyman; he has in practice done more to raise the standard of living… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
“After 1908, and especially after 1945, capitalist greed was somewhat reined in, not least due to the fear of Communism. Yet inequities… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Do I have a problem with Larry Ellison buying Sun? No, that's part of the capitalist system. As soon as we go… — Scott McNealy Copy Share Image
No capitalists after any war were ever so well paid for money loaned to the nation that carried it on. No class… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
Imagine, capitalist America also divides the anarchists into two categories, philosophic and criminal. The first are accepted in highest circles; one of… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
But in the years since the neoliberal project really has been stripped down to what was always its essence: not an economic… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
The distance between capital and labor is not a great gulf over which is swung a Niagara suspension bridge; it is only… — Thomas De Witt Talmage Copy Share Image
Populists believe in conspiracies, and one of the most enduring is that a secret group of international bankers and capitalists, and their… — David Rockefeller Copy Share Image
We need to change the system. We need to overthrow, not the government, as the authorities are always accusing the Communists 'of… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
I think capitalism will not disappear, but it's going to increasingly not be the exclusive arbiter of economic life. It's going to… — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
“To say that "the worker has an interest in the rapid growth of capital", means only this: that the more speedily the… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image