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Quotes About Capitalists

If I tax them, in fact, I'm not taxing the capitalists, I am taxing the people who have saved, trusted. It was very controversial, those sorts of things. But finally, it worked out.
~ Shimon Peres
What is called 'capitalism' might more accurately be called consumerism. It is the consumers who call the tune, and those capitalists who want to remain capitalists have to learn to dance to it.
~ Thomas Sowell
Our free enterprise system is broken and can't be fixed." The source said Templeton was angry and blamed the state of the economy on "untouchable elites" and "crony capitalists working hand-in-glove with corrupt politicians.
~ C.J. Box
Denying the necessary role of the creative mind as expressed in capital and technology, Marx ended up vindicating the zero-sum vision of anti-Semitic envy, in which bankers, capitalists, arbitrageurs, shopkeepers, entrepreneurs, and traders are deemed to be parasitical shysters and dispensable middlemen.
~ George Gilder
Even though Jews are a tiny minority of less than a tenth of 1 percent of the world's people, they comprise perhaps a quarter of the world's paramount capitalists and entrepreneurs.
~ George Gilder
The capitalists are the brains of civilization, because they supply the entire fabric of which all education, enlightenment and human progress consists.
~ Napoleon Hill
The authors propose "a New Deal for globalization—one thatlinks engagement with the world economy to a substantial redistribution of income." Remember, this isn't hippy talk. These are the capitalists who see angry workers with pitchforks loitering outside the gates of a very profitable factory, and they are making a very pragmatic calculation: Throw these people some food (and maybe some movie tickets and beer) before we all end up worse off
~ Charles Wheelan
Well," said the father, "you know what the situation is going to be when this war ends; Russia is going to hold all the countries along her border, including part of Germany, no doubt. All the Nazis will turn Communist and proceed to shoot the Socialists like you and the capitalists like me.
~ Upton Sinclair
British capitalists don't want a Left government in Spain; they'd be afraid of severance taxes. They want what they call a strong government, one that holds labor down and puts the taxes on the consumer.
~ Upton Sinclair
You're looking very fine tonight, Grandmother! Why, you've hardly any warts at all! Bathing in blood again, I'll warrant. Virgins or capitalists this time?
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Should I listen to venture capitalists? Yes, of course. They gave you money. But then don't do anything they ask you to do.
~ James Altucher
I really don't understand them, the capitalists. They delude themselves. We're openly committed to consume them but they give us the means to do it.
~ James Clavell
The New Deal saved capitalism - saved it from the big-time capitalists - though many of the big-timers didn't see it that way.
~ Ben Fountain
Guy: "Hey, isn't that Karl up there?" Mr. Kyu: "You know Marx? Very good." Guy: "A bit... Doesn't everybody?" Mr. Kyu: "Oh no, not many capitalists do." Guy: "Really.
~ Guy Delisle
Skillfully, and with calculation, the economic problems of Reconstruction were being changed by planters and capitalists to look like problems of politics and social recognition.
~ W.E.B. Du Bois
Amerika Birle?ik Devletleri hüküetinin efendileri, ABD'nin birbirlerine s?k? s?k?ya ba?l? sermayedarlar? ve sanayicileridir." - Woodrow Wilson
~ Leo Huberman
What breaks capitalism, all that will ever break capitalism, is capitalists. The faster they run the more strain on their heart.
~ Raymond Williams
Don't worry," says Ricky. "I'm sure everyone isn't bringing a present. You can just think of paying the cover charge as your gift." "What? A cover charge? Presents? What are these people, a bunch of capitalists?
~ Tim Tharp
The race will find that capitalists and communists modify themselves so much during the ages that they end by being indistinguishable as democrats.
~ T. H. White
Venture capitalists have a list of danger signs to watch out for. Near the top is the company run by techno-weenies who are obsessed with solving interesting technical problems, instead of making users happy.
~ Paul Graham
The only problem with capitalism is the capitalists.
~ Herbert Hoover
These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert to fleece the people, and now that they have got into a quarrel with themselves, we are called upon to appropriate the people's money to settle the quarrel.
~ Unknown
There's this myopia among American venture capitalists to not go anywhere beyond Silicon Valley and New York.
~ Dave McClure
Venture capitalists Justin Caldbeck of Binary Capital, Steve Jurvetson of DFJ, and Dave McClure of 500 Startups all left their firms following accusations of misconduct.
~ Emily Chang