Helen Fisher Quotes

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

The substance of the eminent Socialist gentleman's speech is that making a profit is a sin, but it is my belief that the real sin is taking a loss.

Capitalism will kill competition.

What we call Monopoly is Business at the end of its journey. The concentration of wealth, the wiping out of the middle classes, are other names for it. To get it is, in the world of affairs, the chief end of man.

We must expect for a long time yet to see capitalists still striving to obtain the highest possible profits. But observe, that the passion for wealth is certainly in some senses new. It grew up very rapidly at the beginning of the present century; it was not so strong in the last century, when men were much more content to lead a quiet easy life of leisure. The change has really influenced the relations between men; but in the future it is quite possible that the scramble for wealth may grow less intense, and a change in the opposite direction take place.

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

All businessmen are scum.

Capitalism is an organized system to guarantee that greed becomes the primary force of our economic system and allows the few at the top to get very wealthy and has the rest of us riding around thinking we can be that way, too - if we just work hard enough, sell enough Tupperware and Amway products, we can get a pink Cadillac.

If you talk to most businessmen, they'll say that what they do is for the public good, but you know they're just greedy, and consumers are just consuming for the sake of their own greed.

Getting back to the point, a guy like Jerry, he deals with the business, and he doesn't see it as being evil or ugly, it's what you have to do, and I mean I know there's some really ugly parts to it and parts which drive me nuts, but not in the same way as music business.

Materialism has never been so ominous as now in North America, as management takes over.

Every time a man expects, as he says, his money to work for him, he is expecting other people to work for him.

And sometimes I actually start to think human life is just as cheap to corporate America as animal life, so long as there are big profits to be made.

The business of America shouldn't be subsidizing business.

Capitalism has forced everyone to overoptimize in order to compete.

'Big business' was a bad phrase in India. To be accused of being big business was the worst accusation you could make. All that has gone now. The whole mindset has changed.

Capitalism in Russia has spawned far more Al Capones than Henry Fords.

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

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

You have to understand: the narrative that people have about business and capitalism is that they are fundamentally selfish, greedy, and exploitative. Of course, I don't agree with that narrative.

There's a lot of bad isms floating around this world, but one of the worst is commercialism.

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

Capitalism is so successful economically that it creates, educates and subsidizes a vested interest in social unrest.

Governments' thirst for investment is compounded by the insatiable appetite of employers for new markets and a 'competitive' labor force, by which they mean cheap and endlessly exploitable.