Books Quote by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“Capitalism is based on the concept that in order for someone to succeed, someone else has to suffer.”

— Tawni O'Dell

“The great hatred of capitalism in the hearts of the oppressed, ancient and modern, I think, stems not merely from the ensuing vast inequality…

— Victor Davis Hanson

“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

“GREED is truly the most terrible challenge of our times, and capitalism is its tool, its means to power and more greed. Greed is…

— William Donelson

“Free markets and capitalism are predicated upon the definition of greed as altruistic in economics". ~R. Alan Woods [2012]”

— R. Alan Woods

“Capitalism is astonishingly efficient at generating new wealth, but it operates beneficently only when the market is shaped by moral forces coming from both…

— Charles W. Colson

“The only trouble with capitalism is capitalists; they're too damned greedy.”

— Herbert Hoover

“The winner takes all mindset at the root of capitalism is a poison if left unchecked. That’s not to say capitalism is bad per…

— James Morcan

“In a capitalist society there are always inequalities of class and wealth. People who inherit money and property will always see themselves as being…

— Sally Wentworth

“A rule of capitalism: whoever takes the most financial risk gets the rewards.”

— Derek Sivers

“The ideal capitalism envisioned by advocates of the free market depends upon social virtues and wise policies that it does not itself generate.”

— Timothy Snyder

“Capitalism – which in its purest form is entrepreneurism even among the poorest of the poor – does work; but those who make money…

— Richard Branson