Economics Quote by Ronald Wright Download Open image ““Hope, like greed, fuels the engine of capitalism.”” — Ronald Wright ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Economics Greed Hope
“Capitalism has killed millions out of cold indifference coupled with greed.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“It's easier to imagine the death of the planet than it is to imagine the death of capitalism.” — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
“The only trouble with capitalism is capitalists; they're too damned greedy.” — Herbert Hoover 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: If everything worked without need of repair, upgrade or replacement, then peaceful minds and prosperity would prevail among the masses rather than just… — T.F. Hodge Copy Share Image
“A rule of capitalism: whoever takes the most financial risk gets the rewards.” — Derek Sivers Copy Share Image
“Capitalism is the most powerful tool for positive social change.” — Ziad K. Abdelnour Copy Share Image
“Capitalism: let live who can afford to, not simply who wishes to. Life has a price and it belongs only to those who can… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
“Capitalism has lifted billions out of poverty, socialism sends them back.” — Jeffrey Fry Copy Share Image
“Civilization is an experiment, a very recent way of life in the human career, and it has a habit of walking into what I… — Ronald Wright Copy Share Image
“The islanders, they write: carried out for us the experiment of permitting unrestricted population growth, profligate use of resources, destruction of the environment and… — Ronald Wright Copy Share Image
Like most problems with technology, pollution is a problem of scale. The biosphere might have been able to tolerate our dirty old friends coal… — Ronald Wright Copy Share Image
If civilization is to survive, it must live on the interest, not the capital, of nature. — Ronald Wright Copy Share Image
“John Steinbeck once said that socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily… — Ronald Wright Copy Share Image
“In times of war or crisis, power is easily stolen from the many by the few on a promise of security. The more elusive… — Ronald Wright Copy Share Image
Like all creatures, humans have made their way in the world by trial and error. Unlike other creatures we have a presence so colossal… — Ronald Wright Copy Share Image
America seemed a virgin land waiting for civilization. But Europe had made the wilderness it found; America was not a virgin, she was a… — Ronald Wright Copy Share Image
“Soon after man shows up in new lands, the big game starts to go missing. […] A bad smell of extinction follows Home sapiens… — Ronald Wright Copy Share Image
“Even today, some opt for the comforts of mystification, preferring to believe that the wonders of the ancient world were built by Atlanteans, gods,… — Ronald Wright 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