America's skyscrapers were not built by public funds nor for a public purpose: they were built by the energy, initiative and wealth… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Subsidies for the oil, gas and coal industries are projected to cost taxpayers more than $135 billion in the coming decade. At… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
You can be entrepreneurial even if you don’t want to be in business. You can be a social entrepreneur focused on the… — Steve Case Copy Share Image
Our economic assistance must be carefully targeted, and must make maximum use of the energy and efforts of the private sector... Economic… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The younger generation of today has grown up in a world in which in school and press the spirit of commercial enterprise… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Historically, things were moving in a pretty good direction until the Reagan presidency. And then it all got reversed. The Mexico City… — Paul R. Ehrlich Copy Share Image
As the dolphin becomes just another victim of humanity's utilitarian attitudes towards the earth, it seems as though the ancient friendship between… — Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan Copy Share Image
I have observed several hundred salespeople who were taught to use deceptive practices like 'bait and switch' and encouraged to play negotiation… — Ron Willingham Copy Share Image
...men in fear and hunger destroy their stomachs in the fight to secure certain food, where men hungering for love destroy everything… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
We have to accept that capitalism is coming to an end. We can't provide paid employment for people, all the industries with… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
The Saudi, Arabian ruling class, for example, have rights because they are performing a service for Western power, ensuring that oil profits… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
We discovered that in connection with these figures the German national simpletons and money-grubbers of the Frankfurt parliamentary swamp always counted as… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
It's more about subtracting every single buck from the tourists that still flock there. Gentrification and the need for developers to maximize… — Derek Ridgers Copy Share Image
Warned by such evidences of their spiritual illness, believers profit by their humiliations. Robbed of their foolish confidence in the flesh, they… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
University, as institutions, pre-date the information economy by many centuries and are not for-profit cultural entities, whose reason of existence (purportedly) is… — Bruce Sterling Copy Share Image
“The “non-profit” institution neither supplies goods or services nor controls. Its “product” is neither a pair of shoes nor an effective regulation.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The most potentially transformative impact of social media is its ability to encourage brands to marry profit and purpose. The reason brands… — Simon Mainwaring Copy Share Image
I think my biggest problem as a creative person trying to work within a business for profit was that it was very… — Marti Noxon Copy Share Image
I have let half-decades elapse between books because books have to be writte and writing is awful, but if you are the… — David Rakoff Copy Share Image
I have a deep connection with Mahatma Gandhi, partly because my mother was a very, very staunch Gandhian and brought us up… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
Incivility is a symptom, not the disease. We've always had partisan conflict in Congress, and we always will. Yet when I worked… — Tom Allen Copy Share Image
Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women. The latter normally concerns itself with… — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
In order to the attaining of all useful knowledge this is most necessary, that we fear God; we are not qualified to… — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
The financial system has been turned over to the Federal Reserve Board. That Board administers the finance system by authority of a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The danger of tautological propositions is considerable in discussions of the concept of normal profits. Because supernormal profits seem to invite newcomers… — Fritz Machlup Copy Share Image
At times like the present, when the evils of unsound finance threaten us, the speculator may anticipate a harvest gathered from the… — Grover Cleveland Copy Share Image
When I first started out and would go on pitch meetings, there was always this kind of eye-roll that would come with… — Mike Flanagan Copy Share Image
A generation which has passed through the shop has absorbed standards and ambitions which are not of those of spaciousness, and cannot… — Alexander Herzen Copy Share Image
The world is undoubtedly going through great changes. The only question is whether the outcome will be the good of Aryan humanity… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
There can be no freedom of the individual, no democracy, without the capital system, the profit system, the private enterprise system. These… — Russell Cornell Leffingwell Copy Share Image
It is management's job to direct the efforts of all components toward the aim of the system. The first step is clarification:… — W. Edwards Deming Copy Share Image
... it is a commonplace that men like war. For peace, in our society, with the feeling we have then that it… — Ruth Benedict Copy Share Image
We have no honorable intentions in Vietnam. Our minimal expectation is to occupy it as an American colony and maintain social stability… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The prospect of penury in age is so gloomy and terrifying that every man who looks before him must resolve to avoid… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Institutionalized rejection of differences is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people. As members of such… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
The cross is the foundation of the Bible: If you have not yet found out that Christ crucified is the foundation of… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
The U. S. is headed toward a period of business depression... beginning within the next two years, which may exceed that which… — Irving Fisher Copy Share Image
With joint-stock corporations, investors can place bets on the success of many different companies, without having to play a central management role… — Jim Stanford Copy Share Image
In a time in which Communist regimes have been rightfully discredited and yet alternatives to neoliberal capitalist societies are unwisely dismissed, I… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
And maybe the cereal makers by and large have learned to be less crazy about fighting for market share-because if you get… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image