Capitalism Quotes

1122 Capitalism quotes by 511 unique authors

Growth is the mantra of our society because the economy can't remain healthy without growth.Impregnable monopolies aside (and these are few), profits are both the… — Robert Heilbroner
Capitalism is the only society in human history in which neither tradition nor conscious direction supervises the total effort of the community; it is the… — Robert Heilbroner
Capitalism is chronically unstable.Boom and bust has always marked capitalism in the United States. There were panics in 1785, 1791, 1819, 1857, 1869, 1873, 1907,… — John Kenneth Galbraith
The financial wealth of the top 1 percent of households in the U.S. exceeds the combined wealth of the bottom 95 percent. — Ralph Nader
No solution [to the problem of poverty] is so effective as providing income to the poor. Whether in the form of food, housing, health services,… — John Kenneth Galbraith
The ideal of a perfectly functioning democracy is one person, one vote; the ideal of a perfectly functioning market is one dollar, one vote.It's a… — Dorothy L. Sayers
According to the International Institute for Environment and Development, the annual amount spent globally on advertising aimed at increasing consumption topped $430 billion in 1998.Consumer… — Jacques Ellul
A commercial civilization is money-oriented, profit-oriented. Commercial values always tend to wrench a society free of tradition.Economics from education to public service is being reorganized… — John Ralston Saul
The reward of commercial civilization is the ability to consume a never-ending array of products.There are limits beyond which commodities cannot be multiplied without preventing… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A lot of jobs don't allow you to be who you are. There is dignity in work only when it is work freely accepted. — Albert Camus
That state is a state of slavery in which a man does what he likes to do in his spare time and in his working… — Eric Gill
Losses of a kind of satisfaction that have no market equivalent don't show up in the calculations of economists. — Ivan Illich
People in a hurry cannot think, cannot grow, nor can they decay. They are preserved in a state of perpetual puerility. — Eric Hoffer
Currency speculation-over a trillion dollars a day-is a tax-free activity. The notion of a tax on "day trades" or other speculative swaps was revived in… — Eric Kierans
Corporations have nothing to do with values, and they know it, and sometimes say it. — Eric Kierans
Capital in money form has no citizenship. It is fungible, an asset capable of moving from place to place in a nanosecond. — Eric Kierans
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… — Robert Heilbroner
This is the standard procedure for corporate growth these days; one company buys up another on loans that are floated on the basis of future… — Eric Kierans
The big corporation is not in the least remarkable for efficiency; it is only too big to be blamed for its inefficiency. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Few economic problems, if any, are difficult of solution. The difficulty, all but invariably, is in confronting them. We know what needs to be done;… — John Kenneth Galbraith
World War II revealed two of the enduring features of the Keynesian Revolution. One was the moral difference between spending for welfare and spending for… — John Kenneth Galbraith
The Internet will help achieve "friction free capitalism" by putting buyer and seller in direct contact and providing more information to both about each other. — Bill Gates
The characteristic mark of economic history under capitalism is unceasing economic progress, a steady increase in the quantity of capital goods available, and a continuous… — Ludwig von Mises
The characteristic feature of capitalism that distinguishes it from pre-capitalist methods of production was its new principle of marketing. Capitalism is not simply mass production,… — Ludwig von Mises
Capitalism or market economy is that system of social cooperation and division of labor that is based on private ownership of the means of production. — Ludwig von Mises

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