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Capitalism

Free enterprise, business

QUOTES

Make money and the whole world will conspire to call you a gentleman.
 Mark Twain
 

The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.
 Samuel L Gompers, labor union official
 

And while the law (of competition) may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.
 Andrew Carnegie
 

It is not the employer who pays wages - he only handles the money. It is the product that pays the wages.
 Henry Ford
 

The man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.
 Ayn Rand
 

The dynamics of capitalism is postponement of enjoyment to the constantly postponed future.
 Norman Brown
 

It is a socialist idea that making profits is a vice; I consider the real vice is making losses.
 Winston Churchill
 

War is capitalism with the gloves off.
 Tom Stoppard
 Travesties, 1975

See Also Economics Management

References

History
  • Imperialism
  • Mercantilism
  • The Virginia Company
  • The British East India Company
  • Exploration by the Spanish, Portuguese, etc.
  • Settlement of New England, South Africa, etc.

    Arts & Science

  • All periods of artistic flowering have been in expanding economies
  • Movies: Wall Street; Enron - The Smartest Guys in the Room

    Literature

  • Adam Smith: The Wealth of Nations
  • Karl Marx: Das Kapital




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