Capitalists Quote by Nathan Myhrvold Download Open image “I'm one of the first invention capitalists.” — Nathan Myhrvold ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Capitalists Economics First Innovation Invention
But thanks to my invention, my capitalist friends and I were able to bring the government to its knees. — Erno Rubik Copy Share Image
It's just that I landed up in a terrific capitalist system. One that pays people who allocate capital extraordinarily well. Intrinsically, I'm not worth… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I see myself as a bit of a capitalist really - I like enterprise and making money. — Steph McGovern Copy Share Image
I had a capitalist try to explain capitalism to me, so I said I will show you what a capitalist is, I gave them… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
I consider myself an inventor first and an entrepreneur second. In real life, my hero is Thomas Edison. He was a great inventor, but… — Aaron Patzer Copy Share Image
Some article called me the most feared man in Silicon Valley. Good Lord! Why? My teenage boys got a kick out of it: 'Dad,… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
In market research I did at Microsoft Corp. in the early 1990s, I estimated that the 'Wall Street Journal' took in about 75 cents… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
Our reactor actually burns nuclear waste as fuel. So not only is it safe and powerful, it solves an important issue: It actually reduces… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
Food, like anything else, lives in the physical world and obeys the laws of physics. When you whisk together some oil and a little… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
If people don't find what you are doing threatening, then it is probably not very important. — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
Among modern occupations, only cult leaders and TV weathermen rival the technological visionary's ability to retain credibility despite all evidence to the contrary. — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
Crazy ideas sometimes work, and the technological society that we have is built on a foundation of those crazy ideas that work. — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
An efficient government is dangerous in the hands of the wrong man. Sadly, the right sort of man never seems interested in the job. — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
When we first did 'Modernist Cuisine,' I think most people in cookbook publishing would have said, 'This is insane.' — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
One of the greatest things that Apple and Jobs were very good at doing was daring to do the very different thing. It's what… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
The first thing that is not obvious to people is global warming is a less-than-1% effect. It's like being shortchanged at the bank by… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
Ultimately, my Ph.D. is in mathematical physics, focusing on quantum field theory and curved space-time, and I worked with Stephen Hawking. — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
The mistake the apartheid government made was they gave the black people nothing, so they had nothing to lose. But now a lot of… — Wilbur Smith Copy Share Image
You give me electric chair. I no afraid of that chair! You're one of capitalists. You is crook man too. Put me in electric… — Giuseppe Zangara Copy Share Image
The people of Nicaragua were suffering oppression. This made us develop an awareness which eventually led us to commit ourselves to the struggle against… — Daniel Ortega Copy Share Image
Hollywood wants its heroes to be virtuous, but it defines virtue in a way that excludes any action that is self-interested. If virtue means… — Alex Tabarrok Copy Share Image
The environmentalists say capitalism is killing our oceans, air, land, and forests. Capitalists argue that they provide food, fuel, and building materials for a… — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
“You are a product to dragnet surveillance capitalists like Google, Facebook, Comcast and Verizon. Your ideas are rarely your own, rather you are little… — James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology Copy Share Image
There's something about China and its rush to capitalism that I find confusing. At the same time, we live in an America where capitalists… — David Henry Hwang Copy Share Image
“Your ideas are bound to forces of which you have no control due to the fact that you've voluntarily submitted your freedom of though… — James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology Copy Share Image
Socialists tend to want to pay people more money to do less work, and capitalists tend to want to provide better products at better… — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
American capitalists, enthralled by the doctrines of finance, have put their income statements in service of the balance sheet. — Clayton M. Christensen Copy Share Image
“A system is corrupt when it is strictly profit-driven, not driven to serve the best interests of its people.” — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
I argue that one of the functions of a capitalist state is to defend capitalism from itself, to defend capitalism from the capitalists. — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
