Tom Anderson Quotes

All businessmen are scum.

Selfish men, and this country is not without them, men whose mounting bankrolls loom larger than your happiness, corporations without souls and without virtue, those fearful that this government might impinge on what they have grown to regard as its immemorial right of exploitation will whisper against us. They will call us radicals. They will say that this is the first step on the road to socialism.

Capitalism will kill competition.

You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker.

Like sex in Victorian England, the reality of Big Business today is our big dirty secret.

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

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

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

Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.

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

'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.

The average member of the public thinks of 'business' as an impersonal corporate entity owned by the very rich and managed by overpaid executives. There is an almost total failure to appreciate that 'business' actually embraces - in one way or another - most Americans.

The big companies and their short-term bottom line rule this country.

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

They will stop at nothing to enrich the power of Corporations

Corporations gorged with profit ... menace the stability of society.

I spent 33 years ... most of my time being a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short I was a racketeer for capitalism.

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.

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

Businessmen are barbarians in suits.

Robber Barons

Capitalists are no more capable of self sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself by his own bootstraps.

Free enterprise really means rich people getting richer: they have the freedom to exploit and psychologically rape their fellow human beings in the process…Capitalism is destroying the earth

Capitalism, wisely managed, can probably be made more efficient for attaining economic ends than any alternative system yet in sight, but that in itself it is in many ways extremely objectionable

Money has no motherland; financiers are without patriotism and without decency; their sole object is gain.