Assets Quote by Eric Kierans

“Capitalism distinguishes ‘capital’ from mere ‘wealth’.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“When it comes down to it, what are being traded in a capitalist economy are property rights—the ownership rights in goods and services.”

— Thomas J. DiLorenzo

Most of America's leading entrepreneurs are bound to the masts of their fortunes. They are allowed to keep their wealth only as long as…

— George Gilder

Let’s begin with capitalism, a word that has gone largely out of fashion. The approved reference now is to the market system. This shift…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Wealth is not a given or an accident of history. It is not bestowed on us like rain from above. It is the product…

— Llewellyn Rockwell

In the first place, it is obvious that not only is wealth concentrated in our times but an immense power and despotic economic dictatorship…

— Pope Pius XI

Wealth is nothing more or less than a tool to do things with. It is like the fuel that runs the furnace or the…

— Henry Ford

In the struggle between capital and labor, more often than not capital has won, because the real source of value for most companies has…

— James Surowiecki

The impulse to acquisition, pursuit of gain, of money, of the greatest possible amount of money, has in itself nothing to do with capitalism.…

— Max Weber

This is the permanent tension that lies at the heart of a capitalist democracy and is exacerbated in times of crisis. In order to…

— Tariq Ali

Capital, never concerned with distribution, is now less and less concerned with production. Capital is driving for power, for the control over markets, lands,…

— Eric Kierans