Martin Shkreli Quotes

I am a capitalist and I believe in making a profit.

The capitalist engine is first and last an engine of mass production which unavoidably means also production for the masses.

Capitalism doesn't care about sentimentality.

The market economy-capitalism-is a social system of consumers' supremacy.

The development of capitalism consists in everyone having the right to serve the consumer better or more cheaply.

Americans mythologize competition and credit it with saving us from socialist bread lines. Actually, capitalism and competition are opposites. Capitalism is premised on the accumulation of capital, but under perfect competition, all profits get competed away.

Capitalism is part of our system, but it's not for the faint of heart.

Tell me, what do they do for us in Bulgaria? Do they fix the prices? Or is there some kind of a free market?

It's a market economy. Apparently the demand for great coaches exceeds the supply, so of course the price of good coaches is going to be high.

Capitalism is not an economic system, but a world-outlook, or rather, a part of a whole world-outlook.

Capitalism believes that its remit is exclusively to make maximum short-term profits.

Capitalism works.

Capitalism has forced everyone to overoptimize in order to compete.

Under capitalism each individual engages in economic planning.

What's immediately profitable is the only kind of logic that capitalism understands.

Value is what people are willing to pay for it.

The thing is, people can't complain about profit-oriented moves if they're only interested in profit themselves. You can't have it both ways. If they're willing to polish up a gift and sell it to make money, they can't really complain about the fact that somebody above them has sold them down the river. That's the way it goes.

Understanding capitalism is in some ways simple. At its best, capitalism rewards creators, makers and providers: the people and firms that create valuable things for others, like imaginative technologies and good food, cars and drugs.

Capitalism is a system for determining objective value.

In the U.S., PC-makers have no incentive to lower prices because it kills their profit margins. They keep adding new features like high-end retina displays and faster processors to justify their high prices.

From a systematic standpoint, I think that capitalism is the best system. I can spend a lot of time explaining why I like communism, but it is actually not a good solution. Nor is socialism. So, capitalism is the right model.

I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.

Capitalism is economic Darwinism…free enterprise is code for individualistic amorality…the marketplace is the temple of secular humanism.

I’m a big fan of the free market system but the free market system works [only] when you have robust competition.

Capitalism without capital is just an ism.