Tom Scholz Quotes

The valuation of profit over people impedes human rights across much of the world.

Capitalism proceeds through creative destruction. What is created is capitalism in a 'new and improved' form - and what is destroyed is self-sustaining capacity, livelihood and dignity of its innumerable and multiplied 'host organisms' into which all of us are drawn/seduced one way or another.

I just have a serious problem with business for business' sake: this bottom-dollar mentality. I have a serious problem with evil.

Capitalism offers you freedom, but far from giving people freedom, it enslaves them.

The trouble with the profit system has always been that it was highly unprofitable to most people.

The only trouble with capitalism is capitalists—they're too greedy.

We cannot remove the evils of capitalism without taking its source of power: ownership.

Capitalism cannot reform itself; it is doomed to self-destruction.

I don't have anything against corporate America. I mean, I guess there's something about living in a capitalist society that can get kind of terrifying at times.

Sometimes I'd say what's bad for the country is good for my business, unfortunately.

I think that capitalism in general is responsible, not for the worldwide recession, but for a lot of suffering, both in the United States and around the world.

I'm not interested in being commodified. I'm not into being sold. I'm not a slave.

I think big business is a terrible thing for the spirit of the country, as our spirit is the best thing about us.

Capitalism unchecked is not a democratic system.

The market controls everything, but the market has no heart.

In countries operating a largely capitalist system, there does not appear to be a wide understanding among its actors and overseers of either its advantages or its hazards.

Capitalism has forced everyone to overoptimize in order to compete.

This hunger for profits causes great misery for the people.

So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on; and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die; that is to say, civilization will die.

I don't think the western world is questioning capitalism. Capitalism as a concept is not something that society has written off. But today, there is degree of caution around capitalism. We believe in compassionate capitalism. Growth for growth's sake can never be an end in itself.

I mean, the country was founded on free enterprise. There's good things about it, and there's obviously bad things about it.

Those who invest in South Africa should not think they are doing us a favor; they are here for what they get out of our cheap and abundant labor, and they should know that they are buttressing one of the most vicious systems.

Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.

You can very easily be turned into a commodity. I've grown up with it.

As a group, anthropologists are not too fond of people who work in the business world.