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Capitalism QuotesFamous Capitalism quotes by popular authors such as Peter F. Drucker, C. Northcote Parkinson, John Kenneth Galbraith, George Bernard Shaw, John Naisbitt and others.
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[highlight-text]It's all about the money.
Joseph Jackson
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[highlight-text]The price spoils the pleasure.
French Proverb
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[highlight-text]Expenditure rises to meet income.
C. Northcote Parkinson
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[highlight-text]Whose bread I eat his song I sing.
German Proverb
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[highlight-text]Few great men could pass Personnel.
Paul Goodman
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[highlight-text]The business of America is business.
Calvin Coolidge
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[highlight-text]Luck is infatuated with the efficient.
Persian Proverb
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[highlight-text]I am a Millionaire. That is my religion.
George Bernard Shaw
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[highlight-text]Barbaric accuracy - whimpering humility.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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[highlight-text]Business is more exciting than any game.
Lord Beaverbrook
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[highlight-text]Gross National Product is our Holy Grail.
Stuart Udall
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[highlight-text]In economics the majority is always wrong.
John Kenneth Galbraith
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[highlight-text]You build on cost and you borrow on value.
Paul Reichmann
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[highlight-text]Christmas is over and Business is Business.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]Business is a combination of war and sport.
Andri Maurois
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[highlight-text]Commerce is greedy. Ideology is blood-thirsty.
Mason Cooley
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[highlight-text]A company is judged by the president it keeps.
James Hulbert
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[highlight-text]Pounds are the sons not of pounds but of pence.
Charles Buxton
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[highlight-text]Expansion means complexity and complexity decay.
C. Northcote Parkinson
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[highlight-text]A man isn't a man until he has to meet a payroll.
Ivan Shaffer
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[highlight-text]Net - the biggest word in the language of business.
Herbert N. Casson
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[highlight-text]The big print giveth and the fine print taketh away.
Fulton J. Sheen
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[highlight-text]One man's wage rise is another man's price increase.
Harold Wilson
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[highlight-text]All professions are a conspiracy against the country.
George Bernard Shaw
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[highlight-text]Business? It's quite simple. It's other people's money.
Alexandre Dumas
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[highlight-text]A businessman is a hybrid of a dancer and a calculator.
Paul Valery
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[highlight-text]Man exploits man. Under communism it's just the opposite.
Russian Saying
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[highlight-text]You are never giving nor can you ever give enough service.
James R. Cook
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[highlight-text]Capital is past savings accumulated for future production.
Jackson Martindell
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[highlight-text]Live together like brothers and do business like strangers.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]Profitability is the sovereign criterion of the enterprise.
Peter F. Drucker
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[highlight-text]The Middle East is a region where oil is thicker than blood.
James Holland
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[highlight-text]Under capitalism each individual engages in economic planning.
George Reisman
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[highlight-text]Power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will.
Alexander Hamilton
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[highlight-text]Without some dissimulation no business can be carried on at all.
Lord Chesterfield
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[highlight-text]Along this tree From root to crown Ideas flow up And vetoes down.
Peter F. Drucker
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[highlight-text]When two men in business always agree one of them is unnecessary.
William Wrigley
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[highlight-text]To business that we love we rise betime And go to it with delight.
William Shakespeare
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[highlight-text]The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.
Aristotle Onassis
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[highlight-text]Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble-making individual.
James K. Glassman
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[highlight-text]There are an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job.
Peter F. Drucker
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[highlight-text]No-wher so bisy a man as he ter nas And yet he semed bisier that he was.
Geoffrey Chaucer
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[highlight-text]Anti-intellectualism has long been the anti-Semitism of the business man.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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[highlight-text]When you've got them by their wallets their hearts and minds will follow.
Fern Naito
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[highlight-text]In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.
Laurence J. Peter
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[highlight-text]Remember that when an employee enters your office he is in a strange land.
Erwin H. Schell
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[highlight-text]Today's sales should be better than yesterday's - and worse than tomorrow's.
Old Saying
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[highlight-text]Chaplin is no businessman - all he knows is that he can't take anything less.
Samuel Goldwyn
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[highlight-text]Whenever you see a successful business someone once made a courageous decision.
Peter F. Drucker
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[highlight-text]Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.
J. C. Pollard
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[highlight-text]Benefits should be granted little by little so that they may be better enjoyed.
Niccolo Machiavelli
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[highlight-text]Those who can do; those who can't teach; and those who can do neither administer.
Collet Calverley
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[highlight-text]One of the best ways to persuade others is with your ears - by listening to them.
Dean Rusk
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[highlight-text]A holding company is the people you give your money to while you're being searched.
Will Rogers
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[highlight-text]The white man knows how to make everything but he does not know how to distribute it.
Sitting Bull
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[highlight-text]Inflation is defined as the quality that makes balloons larger and candy bars smaller.
General Features Corporation
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[highlight-text]All business proceeds on beliefs on judgements of probabilities and not on certainties.
Charles William Eliot
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[highlight-text]All business sagacity reduces itself in the last analysis to a judicious use of sabotage.
Thorstein Veblen
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[highlight-text]Good management consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
John D. Rockefeller
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[highlight-text]Labour is not a commodity or a standard or a means to an ulterior end but an end in itself.
George Brockway
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[highlight-text]The big-business mergers and the big-labour mergers have the appearance of dinosaurs mating.
John Naisbitt
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[highlight-text]If a cluttered desk is an indication of a cluttered mind what is indicated by an empty desk?
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]Corporations cannot commit treason nor be outlawed nor excommunicated for they have no souls.
Sir Edward Coke
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[highlight-text]A criminal is a person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.
Howard Scott
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[highlight-text]It is not the employer who pays wages - he only handles the money. It is the product that pays wages.
Henry Ford
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[highlight-text]After an eight-hour day workers require three overtime hours to produce two regular hours of results.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]The corporation is an artificial being invisible intangible and existing only in contemplation of law.
John Marshall
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[highlight-text]The forces in a capitalist society if left unchecked tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.
Jawaharlal Nehru
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[highlight-text]Mere parsimony is not economy . . . expense and great expense may be an essential part of true economy.
Edmund Burke
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[highlight-text]I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them.
Harold S. Geneen
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[highlight-text]To convert an hourly wage to an approximate yearly salary double the wage and change the decimal to a comma.
Don Tichnor
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[highlight-text]What recommends commerce to me is its enterprise and bravery. It does not clasp its hands and pray to Jupiter.
Henry David Thoreau
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[highlight-text]The Bell System is like a damn big dragon. You kick it in the tail and two years later it feels it in its head.
Frederick Kappel
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[highlight-text]It is an economic axiom as old as the hills that goods and services can be paid for only with goods and services.
Albert J. Nock
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[highlight-text]We have yet to find a significant case where the company did not move in the direction of the chief executive's home.
Ken Patton
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[highlight-text]Patience is a most necessary quality for business; many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.
Lord Chesterfield
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[highlight-text]People of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage.
John Kenneth Galbraith
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[highlight-text]Crime is a logical extension of the sort of behaviour that is often considered perfectly respectable in legitimate business.
Robert Rice
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[highlight-text]The happiest time in any man's life is when he is in red-hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.
Josh Billings
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[highlight-text]As one retiring chief executive said to his successor 'Yesterday was the last day you heard the truth from your subordinates.'
Robert W. McMurry
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[highlight-text]I think that there is nothing not even crime more opposed to poetry to philosophy ay to life itself than this incessant business.
Henry David Thoreau
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[highlight-text]Business is really more agreeable than pleasure; it interests the whole mind . . . more deeply. But it does not look as if it did.
Walter Bagehot
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[highlight-text]Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up then sell it. If it don't go up don't buy it.
Will Rogers
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[highlight-text]Twenty generations ago - around the year 1390 - you had 1048576 ancestors. In the 21st generation of your family that number will double again.
Genealogical Research Library
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[highlight-text]Management is now where the medical profession was when it decided that working in a drug store was not sufficient training to become a doctor.
Lawrence Appley
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[highlight-text]Managers don't have to cook the books to manipulate earnings; they often have all the power they need in the leeway built into accounting rules.
Fred S. Worthy
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[highlight-text]The manager with the in-basket problem does not yet understand that he must discipline himself to take care of activities that fail to excite him.
Priscilla Elfrey
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[highlight-text]The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee. And I pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.
John D. Rockefeller
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[highlight-text]One of the best-kept secrets in America is that people are aching to make a commitment if they only had the freedom and environment in which to do so.
John Naisbitt
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[highlight-text]There is only one social responsibility of business - to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits without deception or fraud.
Milton Friedman
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[highlight-text]Few have heard of Fra Luca Parioli the inventor of double-entry bookkeeping but he has probably had more influence on human life than has Dante or Michelangelo.
Herbert J. Muller
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[highlight-text]It might be termed the Law of Triviality. Briefly stated it means that the time spent on any item of the agenda will be in adverse proportion to the sum involved.
C. Northcote Parkinson
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[highlight-text]Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?
Jean Paul Getty
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[highlight-text]The solid wealth of insurance companies and the success of those who organize gambling are some indication of the profits to be derived from the efficient use of chance.
Edward de Bono
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[highlight-text]In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is offering too little and asking too much. The French are with equal advantage content So we clap on Dutch bottoms just 20%.
George Canning
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[highlight-text]Things have to be made to happen in a way you want them to happen. Without management without the intervention of organized willpower the desired result simply cannot be obtained.
Robert Heller
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[highlight-text]People of the same trade seldom meet together even for merriment and diversion but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public or in some contrivance to raise prices.
Adam Smith
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[highlight-text]Had there been a computer a hundred years ago it would probably have predicted that by now there would be so many horse-drawn vehicles it would be impossible to clear up all the manure.
K. William Kapp
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[highlight-text]Big business is basic to the very life of this country; and yet many -perhaps most - Americans have a deep-seated fear and an emotional repugnance to it. Here is monumental contradiction.
David Lilienthal
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[highlight-text]What kind of society isn't structured on greed? The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the least harm; capitalism is that kind of a system.
Milton Friedman
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[highlight-text]The big unions served a noble purpose once and bless them for it. Now they're part of the problem and must give way if America is to move and to participate in management and achieve reasonable productivity.
Robert Townsend
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[highlight-text]It takes no more actual sagacity to carry on the everyday hawking and haggling of the world or to ladle out its normal doses of bad medicine and worse law than it takes to operate a taxi cab or fry a pan of fish.
Henry Mencken
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[highlight-text]The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation governments can confiscate secretly and unobserved an important part of the wealth of their citizens.
John Maynard Keynes
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[highlight-text]In all modern depressions recessions or growth-correction as variously they are called we never miss the goods that are not produced. We miss only the opportunities for the labour - for the jobs - that are not provided.
John Kenneth Galbraith
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[highlight-text]By pursuing his own interest (the individual) frequently promotes that of the society more effectually than when he really intends to promote it. I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.
Adam Smith
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[highlight-text]Capitalism in the United States has undergone profound modification not just under the New Deal but through a consensus that continued to grow after the New Deal. Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country.
Norman Cousins
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[highlight-text]There can be no return to prosperity while the government (of Ontario) believes that taking money from the people who have earned it and giving it away to the people who haven't in exchange for their votes and regardless of merit is the essence of fairness.
Conrad Black
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[highlight-text]You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot help the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer. You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.
William J. H. Boetcker
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[highlight-text]As a rule from what I've observed the American Captain of Industry doesn't do anything out of business hours. When he has put the cat out and locked up the office for the night he just relapses into a state of coma from which he emerges only to start being a Captain of Industry again.
P. G. Wodehouse
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[highlight-text]In the history of enterprise most of the protagonists of major new products and companies began their education - not in the classroom where the old ways are taught but in the factories and labs where new ways are wrought ... nothing has been so rare in recent years as an Ivy League graduate who has made a significant innovation in American enterprise.
George Gilder