Capitalism Quote by David Harvey

All the capital employed in paper speculation is barren and useless, producing, like that on a gaming table, no accession to itself, and is…

— Thomas Jefferson

The inborn instability of capitalism has been part of the history of the system for several hundred years, including recurrent speculative episodes. There should…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Speculation is only a word covering the making of money out of the manipulation of prices, instead of supplying goods and services.

— Henry Ford

Concentrating wealth in the hands of the few and deregulating financial institutions and practices lead to speculative bubbles that eventually burst - and that…

— Jennifer Granholm

People are very focused on value and preservation of capital. They're a lot less risk-prone than they used to be.

— Sergio Marchionne

Today we have a temporary aberration called "industrial capitalism" which is inadvertently liquidating its two most important sources of capital, the natural world and…

— Amory Lovins

Speculation is an effort, probably unsuccessful, to turn a little money into a lot. Investment is an effort, which should be successful, to prevent…

— Fred Schwed Jr

That is why we may say that the historical development of capitalism has involved the thrust towards the commodification of everything.

— Immanuel Wallerstein

As a rule, panics do not destroy capital; they merely reveal the extent to which it has been destroyed by its betrayal into hopelessly…

— John Mills

“Fred Harrison explains in The Power in the Land how land values over time become so expensive that too little wealth is left to…

— Martin Adams

The first and probably most fundamental aspect of this crisis is that we are now close to the commodification of everything. That is, historical…

— Immanuel Wallerstein

“The ability of individuals to extract wealth from society by profiting from land also leads to cultural degeneration and a loss of social cohesion…

— Martin Adams