Capitalism Quote by James Surowiecki Download Open image “Movies' mistrust of capitalism is almost as old as the medium itself.” — James Surowiecki ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Capitalism Cinema Economics Mediums Mistrust
Cinema is capitalism in its purest form… There is only one solution - turn one's back on American cinema. — Jean-Luc Godard Copy Share Image
I feel that film is inevitably the medium of the future. It has been for years, decades, but more so now than ever. — Sean Lennon Copy Share Image
Blockbusters run the mainstream industry. We may never again have a decade like the 1970s, when directors were able to find such freedom. — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Cinema connects people: they respond as a group, you feel you are not alone, and you see you are not alone. Capitalism is destroying… — Jasmila Zbanic Copy Share Image
One might have thought that the most significant change in the film industry that would come about with a transition from the communist economy… — Andrzej Wajda Copy Share Image
This is the age of insincerity. The movies had the misfortune to come along in the twentieth century, and because they appeal to the… — Lionel Barrymore Copy Share Image
Entertainment and escapism - those are the bigger money-making films today. — Robin Wright Copy Share Image
I suppose it's nice that I've made films that some people have heard of and respect. That's great. And it's certainly helpful in some… — Andrew Bujalski Copy Share Image
Cinema is far too rich and capable a medium to be merely left to the storytellers. — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
'Your Name''s success told me movies still have the power to connect with society. As a medium, it still has a power that resonates. — Makoto Shinkai Copy Share Image
Lack of confidence, sometimes alternating with unrealistic dreams of heroic success, often leads to procrastination, and many studies suggest that procrastinators are self-handicappers: rather… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
Downsizing itself is an inevitable part of any creatively destructive economy. — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
In the business world, bad news is usually good news - for somebody else. — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
You might think of consumption as a fairly passive activity, but buying new products and services is actually pretty risky, at least if you… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
Corporations hope that the right concept will turn things around overnight. This is what you might call the crash-diet approach: starve yourself for a… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
Instead of mindlessly tossing billions at or taking billions from the Net as such, investors should be spending their time making sure that it's… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
If you thought the advent of the Internet, the spread of cheap and efficient information technology, and the growing fragmentation of the consumer market… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
The financial crisis of 2008 was not caused by investment banks betting against the housing market in 2007. It was caused by the fact… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
A consumer-finance agency is a good thing, but it would do well to teach consumers a simple lesson: if you don't understand the deal… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
What corporations fear is the phenomenon now known, rather inelegantly, as 'commoditization.' What the term means is simply the conversion of the market for… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
Making loans and fighting poverty are normally two of the least glamorous pursuits around, but put the two together and you have an economic… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
Don't let's lose sight of what creates wealth. It is open markets, it is capitalism. — Rupert Murdoch Copy Share Image
Crony capitalism is essentially a condition in which... public officials are giving favours to people in the private sector in payment of political favours. — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
Philosopher is a dictator who modifies accepted standards with his thoughts. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
There is only one party in the United States, the Property Party...and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat. Republicans are a bit… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Neither Italian fascism nor German national "socialism" have anything in common with such a [Soviet socialistic] society, primarily because private ownership of factories, plants,… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
Corporations have nothing to do with values, and they know it, and sometimes say it. — Eric Kierans Copy Share Image
Both fact and logic seem to me to support the view that savings invested in privately owned economic tools of production amount to an… — F. A. Harper Copy Share Image
The free market is ugly and stupid, like going to the mall; the unfree market is just as ugly and just as stupid, except… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are no two countries with the same style of economic mechanism, with the same capitalism. — Anatoly Chubais Copy Share Image
It is more than a little ironic that "capital accumulation" once a rather tendentious Marxian view of a supposed capitalist obsession, should have become… — Robert Kuttner Copy Share Image
Historically, usury was defined as any interest whatever on an unproductive loan.Our whole banking system I have ever abhorred, I continue to abhor, and… — John Adams Copy Share Image
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