Ben Horowitz Quotes

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

Capitalism is at least tolerable, which cannot be said of Socialism or Communism.

For many, perhaps most, Americans, markets are sacrosanct. Most people in the United States cannot even envision a society that doesn't revolve around an untrammeled market.

Capitalism works.

Capitalism is a set of rituals.

We do not want socialism.

Capitalism should not be condemned, since we haven't had capitalism.

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

Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.

Under capitalism each individual engages in economic planning.

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.

I'm a capitalist by conviction and profession. I believe the best economic system is one that rewards entrepreneurship and risk-taking, maximizes customer choice, uses markets to allocate scarce resources and minimizes the regulatory burden on business.

Capitalism and the market are presented as synonymous, but they are not. Capitalism is both the enemy of the market and democracy.

Capitalism is not an orgy of human villainy: it is a Utopia that has dazzled and misled very amiable and public spirited men.

Capitalism still wants to beat socialism in the end.

There has been no country with a democratic political sphere, past or present, whose economy has not been dominated by private ownership and market coordination.

Despite the miracles of capitalism, it doesn't do well in popularity polls. One of the reasons is that capitalism is always evaluated against the non-existent, non-realizable utopias of socialism or communism. Any earthly system, when compared to a Utopia will pale in comparison. But for the ordinary person, capitalism, with all of its warts, is superior to any system yet devised to deal with our everyday needs and desires.

Capitalism has worked very well. Anyone who wants to move to North Korea is welcome.

If you aren't talking to your kids about socialism, someone else is. So use car time, dinner time, tax preparation time, and time spent together at your work or small business to teach your child about the virtues of capitalism, the system of government that has lifted more people out of poverty.

Capitalism is the engine that has grown economies.

The free market economy is supposed to be the only path leading to the happiness of humanity by promoting wealth and prosperity, power and influence of nations.

The European model is, first, a social and economic system founded on the role of the market, for no computer in the world can process information better than the market.

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

President Obama insists he's a free-market guy. But you have to wonder whether he understands how a free economy really works.

I do believe in the free market.