~ Capitalism Quotes ~

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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