Business Quote by Nassim Nicholas Taleb Download Open image “I want them poor and they deserve to be poor. You can't have capitalism without punishment.” — Nassim Nicholas Taleb ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Business Capitalism Deserve Economics Finance Poor Poverty Punishment Want
The only trouble with capitalism is capitalists - they are too damn greedy. — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
We have to find a way to make the aspects of capitalism that serve wealthier people serve poorer people as well. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Capitalism does not permit an even flow of economic resources. With this system, a small privileged few are rich beyond conscience, and almost all… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Capitalism offers nothing but frustrations and rebuffs to those who wish - because of claimed superiority of intelligence, birth, credentials, or ideals - to… — George Gilder Copy Share Image
Capitalism offers you freedom, but far from giving people freedom, it enslaves them. — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
I'm no communist.I'm a tax cutting Conservative. But I want a capitalism that is fairer to forgotten people. — Boris Johnson Copy Share Image
Capitalism is the only economic system compatible with free individuals — Peter McWilliams Copy Share Image
“The only trouble with capitalism is capitalists; they're too damned greedy.” — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
“The most efficient way of rendering the poor harmless is to teach them to want to imitate the rich. That is the poison with… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
The poor also are willing to make, and do make, smart decisions, if you give them that opportunity. — Jacqueline Novogratz Copy Share Image
The problem with capitalism is... Eventually you will have run other people out of their money — Jorebungley Copy Share Image
Wittgenstein's ruler: Unless you have confidence in the ruler's reliability, if you use a ruler to measure a table you may also be using… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
In politics we face the choice between warmongering, nation-state loving, big-business agents on one hand; and risk-blind, top-down, epistemic arrogant big servants of large… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
My nightmare scenario is that the government saves Citibank once again, as well as the other banks, and business resumes as usual. Then, the… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Using, as an excuse, others' failure of common sense is in itself a failure of common sense. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
You know, children philosophize more than adults - and they are critical of adults. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“Suckers think that you cure greed with money, addiction with substances, expert problems with experts, banking with bankers, economics with economists, and debt crises… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“One needs to go out and buy a lottery ticket in order to win. Does it mean that the work involved in the trip… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Individuals should think about the worst-case scenarios and plan for them. The world will be crazier than you think it will be. Put money… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“If you are looking for your misplaced wallet in your living room, in a trial and error mode, you exercise rationality by not looking… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“Most humans manage to squander their free time, as free time makes them dysfunctional, lazy, and unmotivated—the busier they get, the more active they… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
We learn the most from fools ... yet we pay them back with the worst ingratitude. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Companies with cultures that celebrate diverse opinions and encourage the exchange of ideas have an advantage when solving difficult problems. A company that doesn't… — Doug McMillon Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
I'm a business first and foremost so whatever my business is, it's separate from my personal. It's like whatever I do business wise, it's… — Snoop Dogg Copy Share Image
Many early-stage entrepreneurs make one simple mistake: Describing this 'big picture' in vague concepts and words. — Sunil Nagaraj Copy Share Image
Nobody has a crystal ball, and part of evolving a business plan is to say, 'I might have said we're going left, but I… — Ryan Kavanaugh Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
“[S]ometimes, when you are a food person, the possible irrelevance of what you are doing doesn’t cross your mind until it’s too late. (Once,… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
If you have a different mindset, you will have a different outcome: if you make different choices from your peers, your life will then… — Jack Ma Copy Share Image
“Some say the Earth is angry Because he wants no company; I say the Earth is angry Because he lives alone.” — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
If the State does not acquire supremacy over [vast private] enterprises, it becomes their puppet, and they become the real State. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image