104 Capitalist Quotes for You to Enjoy

Will capitalist economies operate at full employment in the absence of routine intervention? Certainly not. Are deviations from full employment a social problem? Obviously. Janet Yellen

Problem Will Intervention Absence Economies Employment Obviously Operate Social Capitalist Full Certainly Routine

My view... would be that we are entering upon a new and interim society which is neither capitalist nor socialist, but in which we can achieve central planning without loss of individual initiative, by the mere process of absorbing initiative in the function of planning. John Grierson

Achieve Society Entering Neither Would Would-Be Individual Individual Initiative Absorb Mere New Without Nor Loss Process Which Central Capitalist View Interim Planning Function Initiative Socialist

The 19th-century pure capitalist model of society was a pyramid, concentrations of enormous wealth in a small group at the top, a not very big middle-class in the middle, and an enormous percentage of the population in the bottom part of the pyramid. John Ralston Saul

Wealth Pure Big Group Society Enormous Top Percentage Small Small Group Bottom Part Pyramid Very Model Middle Capitalist Population

If stability and efficiency required that there existed markets that extended infinitely far into the future - and these markets clearly did not exist - what assurance do we have of the stability and efficiency of the capitalist system? Joseph Stiglitz

Future Assurance Markets System Clearly Exist Existed Efficiency Did Infinitely Stability Far Capitalist Required Extended

If you've had some success as a venture capitalist, you get a lot of inbound emails from entrepreneurs. But if you look back on the best deals, it's with the entrepreneurs who say, 'You show me why I should take your money.' Justin Caldbeck

'Bernie versus Bernie,' for me, is these two extremes of capitalism. It's Bernie Sanders, the ultimate socialist, and Bernie Madoff, the ultimate capitalist. Kerby Jean-Raymond

Me Capitalism Extremes Bernie Sanders Ultimate Versus Capitalist Socialist Two

No faction is better or worse than any other. All come from the same mould; they are all products of capitalist influence in the working class movement. And they are a poison that destroys our Party and the working class movement in Korea. Kim Jong Il

As I became a venture capitalist, it's almost like I went to the dark side for a while. Luke Nosek

Dark Dark Side Side Almost Like Venture Became While Capitalist

We are not Marxist or capitalist; we are for the poor people. Mamata Banerjee

People Marxist Poor Poor People Capitalist

Every year the progress of advanced capitalist society makes our population consist of more and more isolates. This is because of the infrastructure of the economy, especially electronic communications. Mary Douglas

Progress Year Every Society Our Consist More More And More Advanced Economy Because Makes Infrastructure Communications Capitalist Capitalist Society Electronic Population

It's really interesting that we've had this great Tea Party movement that is all about restoring free market capitalist values, but what they completely fail to understand is that what we've got now is a situation where there is a small class of gigantic financial companies that have put themselves above capitalism. Matt Taibbi

Great Capitalism Class Financial Values Free Party Situation Tea Market Gigantic Restoring About Above Small Free Market Had Put Fail Understand Got Movement Where Interesting Themselves Really Capitalist Tea Party Tea Party Movement Companies Now

We're living in our neoliberal, sort of late-stage capitalist culture where human beings are really like objects of production and consumption. We're on our screens all the time; we're kind of being sold at all the time. Max Richter

Time Culture Living Our Sold Kind Objects Consumption Like Sort Human Being Where Human Beings Screens Really Capitalist Production Beings

The profit orientation is only one orientation of a person. The same people who are interested in profit-making are also selfless. I am not saying that capitalist theory is wrong. I am saying that it has not been interpreted and practiced fully. Muhammad Yunus

Saying People Profit Only Wrong Also Practiced Am Been Selfless Person Same Interested Capitalist Theory Who Orientation Fully Interpreted

Women in most countries have not achieved much, because they can't be liberated under the patriarchal, capitalist, imperialist and military system that determines the way we live now, and which is governed by power, not justice, by false democracy, not real freedom. Nawal El Saadawi

Freedom Democracy Justice Women Power Military Live Liberated Way System Determines Imperialist Countries Most Because Real Governed Real Freedom False Achieved Patriarchal Which Much Capitalist Now

Like most plutocrats, I, too, am a proud and unapologetic capitalist. I have founded, cofounded or funded over 30 companies across a range of industries. I was the first non-family investor in Amazon.com. I cofounded a company called aQuantive that we sold to Microsoft for 6.4 billion dollars. My friends and I, we own a bank. Nick Hanauer

First Own Too Sold Range Investor Over Like Most Industries Proud Am Dollars Friends Microsoft Bank Capitalist Across Billion Billion Dollars Companies Company Founded

The Soviet Union was a partial check on capitalist looting in the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. However, with the Soviet collapse, capitalist looting intensified during the Clinton, Bush, and Obama regimes. Paul Craig Roberts

Collapse Obama Partial Check Looting However Clinton Intensified Soviet Soviet Union Regimes Bush Capitalist Union

I actually am a capitalist, and I believe in shareholders. But I believe in them as a result of what I do, not as a reason for what I'm doing. The same with profits - profits alone cannot be an objective. It has to have a purpose. Paul Polman

Alone Result Believe Objective Purpose Shareholders Am Doing Same Cannot Them Capitalist Reason Actually Profits

I think of myself as a democratic capitalist, although I think the word 'socialism' loses its meaning every time that it is used to describe literally any policy left of far right by the current Republicans. Pete Buttigieg

Time Myself Socialism Word Every Think Every Time Democratic Policy Although Loses Left Current Any Literally Republicans Meaning Far Capitalist Far Right Used Describe Right

The Modi government believes that the industrialist, the capitalist, has to pay for the assets of the government which belong to the people of India. Piyush Goyal

Government People Pay India Which Capitalist Believes Assets Belong

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