Bad decisions Quote by Steve Almond

“If morality represents how people would like the world to work, then economics shows how it actually does work.”

— Steven D. Levitt

“the morality of capitalism, just like the morality of democracy, is rooted in consent.”

— Dinesh D'Souza

“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

“Surely it is better that the immoral learn morality through adversity than that the moral forget morality in prosperity.”

— isaac asimov

Capitalism actually encourages morality because capitalism can't function well if people can't trust each other and people aren't honest, if a deal isn't a…

— Rick Santorum

“It’s called the real world. If we refused to do business with the morally questionable, the deal volume would drop in half and the…

— Helen Simonson

“The point is, there is no feasible excuse for what we are, for what we have made of ourselves. We have chosen to put…

— Iain Banks

“We still don't know how to put morality ahead of politics, science, and economics. We are still incapable of understanding that the only genuine…

— Václav Havel

Capitalism doesn't consider morality. It considers profitability.

— Steve Almond

“The virtue of capitalism is that society can take advantage of people’s greed rather than their benevolence, but there is no need to, in…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“It is precisely this collision of immoral power with powerless morality which constitutes the major crisis of our times.”

— Martin Luther King, Jr

“The moral transformation of individuals engaged in economic transactions tend to become, for example, the answer to economic problems: if only our greedy CEOs…

— Kathryn Tanner