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“Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men for the nastiest of motives will somehow work together for the benefit of all.” — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
“The business card does not fully reflect who we are. We are being judged, we feel, in a humiliating way. We feel there is… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“The virtue of capitalism is that society can take advantage of people’s greed rather than their benevolence, but there is no need to, in… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“I do not intend to defend capitalism or capitalists. They, like everything human, have their defects. I only say their possibilities of usefulness are… — Benito Mussolini Copy Share Image
“Capitalism is based on the concept that in order for someone to succeed, someone else has to suffer.” — Tawni O'Dell Copy Share Image
“Capitalism has killed millions out of cold indifference coupled with greed.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“We will always feel inadequate for as long as we view success from a capitalist lens” — Malebo Sephodi Copy Share Image
“Capitalism is the most powerful tool for positive social change.” — Ziad K. Abdelnour Copy Share Image
“A rule of capitalism: whoever takes the most financial risk gets the rewards.” — Derek Sivers Copy Share Image
“We do not look on death the way you do, farang. My closest colleagues grasp my arm and one or two embrace me. No… — John Burdett Copy Share Image
You don't understand. I only prostitute the part of the body that isn't important, and nobody suffers except my karma a little bit. I… — John Burdett Copy Share Image
Las Vegas is the expression, in glitter and concrete, of Americas brittle and mutating id. — John Burdett Copy Share Image
To a Buddhist, contradictions only exist in a mind that has been forced to cultivate them. — John Burdett Copy Share Image
I'm fascinated by Buddhism. I adore Buddhism, and I read about it all the time, but I haven't formally become a Buddhist, although I… — John Burdett Copy Share Image
There are plenty of brilliant people who are too stressed out to read challenging literary novels. — John Burdett Copy Share Image
In Southeast Asia the world is understood to be a vast, complex network of interdependent relationships. So when global capitalism makes it impossible for… — John Burdett Copy Share Image
It is quite amazing how hard the subconscious works when it is made to understand that this life is not a rehearsal, there is… — John Burdett Copy Share Image
I discovered that Thailand was one of those countries, like Sri Lanka and India, where memory of past lives used to be commonplace. Go… — John Burdett Copy Share Image
Las Vegas is the expression, in glitter and concrete, of America's brittle and mutating id. — John Burdett Copy Share Image
“Farang, I'll bet you Wall Street against a Thai mango he'll be back, if for no other reason than to play the card of… — John Burdett 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
Advances in technology will continue to reach far into every sector of our economy. Future job and economic growth in industry, defense, transportation, agriculture,… — Christopher Bond Copy Share Image
Our engagement through international economics, trade, these trade agreements, is vital and is linked to our national security. This is a lesson we learned… — Charles Boustany Copy Share Image
“The free-market economy and globalisation process have brought about, in the late twentieth and early twenty-first century, a sharp and sudden rise in the… — Yaakov Malkin Copy Share Image
“Everything economic science posits as given, that is, the range of dispositions of the economic agent which ground the illusion of the ahistorical universality… — Pierre Bourdieu Copy Share Image
Politics is about power. It is about the power of the state. It is about the power of the state as applied to individuals,… — Kevin Rudd Copy Share Image
“a select group of high-performing companies have managed to close the strategy-to-performance gap through better planning and execution. These companies—Barclays, Cisco Systems, Dow Chemical,… — Michael C. Mankins Copy Share Image
The system of private property is the most important guaranty of freedom, not only for those who own property, but scarcely less for those… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
The politician attempts to remedy the evil by increasing the very thing that caused the evil in the first place: legal plunder. — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
“Economists have a singular method of procedure. There are only two kinds of institutions for them, artificial and natural. The institutions of feudalism are… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
