Animal Quote by Paul Johnson

Capitalists seem uninterested in capitalism, even as eager entrepreneurs can't get financing. Businesses and investors sound like the Ancient Mariner, who complained, 'Water, water…

— Anonymous

The impulse to acquisition, pursuit of gain, of money, of the greatest possible amount of money, has in itself nothing to do with capitalism.…

— Max Weber

“Capitalism is premised on the accumulation of capital, but under perfect competition all profits get competed away. The lesson for entrepreneurs is clear: if…

— Blake Masters

“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

Investment bubbles and high animal spirits do not materialize out of thin air. They need extremely favorable economic fundamentals together with free and easy,…

— Jeremy Grantham

Capitalism is the engine that has grown economies.

— Trish Regan

Capitalists behave like capitalists wherever they are. They pursue the expansion of value through exploitation without regard to the social consequences.

— David Harvey

The genius of capitalism consists precisely in its lack of morality. Unless he is rich enough to hire his own choir, a capitalist is…

— Lewis H. Lapham

“Capitalism, so called, is when free people accumulate capital of their own free will for use on freely determined projects. The fact of the…

— P.J. O'Rourke

“Nonetheless, many people, and especially intellectuals, passionately loathe capitalism. As they see it, this ghastly mode of society’s economic organization has brought about nothing…

— Ludwig Von Mises

I believe that capitalism, at least how it's used by major corporations, and environmental concerns are in opposition. To be ecologically aware, productivity of…

— Henry Rollins

I suspect that one of capitalism's crucial assets derives from the fact that the imagination of economists, including its critics, lags well behind its…

— Zygmunt Bauman