Quotes About Capitalism

In a free market, businesses compete for customers by keeping prices down and for labor by keeping wages up.

Wal-Mart doesn't really care about your faith. Wal-Mart cares if you have money to spend, and it is going to be as generic as possible in exploiting the holiday season for every buck it can make.

Architects design buildings; that's what we do, so we have to go with the flow; and, even though I'm still an old Leftie, global capitalism does have its good side. It's broken down barriers - the Berlin Wall, the Soviet Union - it's raised a lot of people up economically, and for architects, it has meant that we can work around the world.

The best way to deal with any economic problem is to let the market work it through.

I love big business!

Hollywood, at the bottom of it, is about money.

Free market never succeeded without free men and free society.

In a capitalistic society, success is determined by whether you can pay the bills.

While football embarrassingly exposes the excesses of capitalism, the Olympic sports have been used to propagate the neoliberal mantra that success is simply a matter of hard work.

Every success story in this country was because of capitalism. Everything we're doing. Look at my story. It couldn't be done.

Commerce is a core component of pretty much any successful society.

American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.

New York is not the centre for American culture and art that it once was because of the forces of conservatism. Giuliani, capitalism - and then there was 9/11. I really believe that if I leave, it will suffer! Maybe that's why I love it here, because I feel wanted.

A newspaper is a public trust, and we will suffer as a society without them. It is not the Internet that has killed them. It is their own greed, it is their own stupidity, and it is capitalism that has taken our daily newspapers from us.

I still believe that capitalism is too harsh and I believe that, even within that, there is a lot of satisfaction and beauty if you happen to be one of the lucky ones, although that doesn't eradicate the reality of the suffering. It's all true at once, kind of humming and sublime.

The part of capitalism that doesn't work for me is when capitalists make decisions in the way that Adam Smith suggested, which is that as long as you do everything in the interest of the investor, you're going to actually make the best decisions for all other stakeholders. I don't happen to agree with that.

What happened in the '70s was albums and concerts began making a hell of a lot more money, and then the suits got involved.

When we comprehend how few wars have ever been fought for the sake of justice or the people; how personal spite, the ambition of military professionals, and the protection of capitalistic ventures are the real moving powers...then the mythology of war will no longer bring us to our knees.

el capitalismo al estilo americano— está modelando de maneras poco afortunadas nuestra identidad individual y como nación. Lo que aflora es un conflicto con nuestros valores más elevados: la codicia, el egoísmo, la abyección moral, la disposición a explotar a otros y la deshonestidad que la Gran Recesión puso de manifiesto en el sector financiero se evidencian hoy en todos lados, no solo en Estados Unidos.

today we live in an economy where a few firms can rake in massive amounts of profits for themselves and persist unchecked in their dominant position for years and years.

Economists have a name for these activities: they call them rent seeking, getting income not as a reward to creating wealth but by grabbing a larger share of the wealth that would otherwise have been produced without their effort. (We'll give a fuller definition of the concept of rent seeking

To put it baldly, there are two ways to become wealthy: to create wealth or to take wealth away from others.

Capitalist economies have thus always involved a blend of private markets and government—the question is not markets or government, but how to combine the two to best advantage.

In a world of globalization, creating market value had become entirely separated from creating employment. There was no reason to believe that giving more money to America's wealthy would lead to more investment in the United States: