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Quotes About Joint-stock

On the basis of capitalist production, a new swindle with the wages of management develops in connection with joint-stock companies, in that, over and above the actual managing director, a number of governing and supervisory boards arise, for which management and supervision are in fact a mere pretext for the robbery of shareholders and their own enrichment.
~ Karl Marx
The idea of a joint stock company was one of Tudor England's most brilliant and revolutionary innovations. The spark of the idea sprang from the flint of the medieval craft guilds, where merchants and manufacturers could pool their resources to undertake ventures none could afford to make individually.
~ William Dalrymple
It's a mutual, joint-stock world, all meridians. We cannibals must help these Christians.
~ Herman Melville
It's a mutual, joint-stock world, in all meridians. We cannibals must help these Christians.
~ Herman Melville
It's a mutual, joint-stock world, in all meridians. We cannibals must help these Christians.
~ Herman Melville