Business Quote by Edward A. Hudson

Entrepreneurs create value; I wanted to create ideas that became machines for making value.

— Martine Syms

Generations of human beings were transformed into machines in the relentless pursuit of material wealth: We lived to work.

— Jeremy Rifkin

In the Machine Age, the company itself became a machine - a machine for making money.

— Peter Senge

“Stated another way, most of the economic world, at any given time, is a brownfield of traditional activities performed in traditional ways. New technologies…

— James P. Womack

Ingeniously, capitalism discovered that the economy may be moved not by satisfying existing needs, but by creating new ones.

— Zygmunt Bauman

People talk about "job creation," as if that had ever been the aim the industrial economy. The aim was to replace people with machines.

— Wendell Berry

“Capitalism is premised on the accumulation of capital, but under perfect competition all profits get competed away. The lesson for entrepreneurs is clear: if…

— Blake Masters

“A crucial part of the modern capitalist economy was the emergence of a new ethic, according to which profits ought to be reinvested in…

— Yuval Noah Harari

But the broader lesson of the first Industrial Revolution is more like the Indy 500 than John Henry: economic progress comes from constant innovation…

— Erik Brynjolfsson

Many of the technologies that are now racing ahead most rapidly, replacing human workers in factories and offices with machines, making stockholders richer and…

— Freeman Dyson

Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all…

— Karl Marx

Production for sale in a market in which the object is to realize the maximum profit is the essential feature of a capitalist world-economy.…

— Immanuel Wallerstein