Peter Senge Quotes

Business is in itself a power.

Here in Davos, it is generally assumed that there is now only one god - the market.

But in the free market system, you're forced to change.

There seems to be something sacrosanct about big business.

We are ruled by big business and the government as its paid hireling … the divine right of kings has been replaced by the divine right of CEOs.

Business is one of the most powerful forces for change on the planet.

You can invest as much as you want in infrastructure and education. But in the end people have to be allowed to make a profit from their work.

Competition is good and has served us well.

Private industry's job is to make money. Private industry's job is to create a huge economic engine.

The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.

It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.

I am a huge fan of capitalism and a huge fan of entrepreneurship and changing the world with technology and with entrepreneurship. Capitalism is awesome. To me, capitalism is my religion.

'Business,' properly understood, is so central to every aspect of our civilization that Republicans should proudly announce that they are indeed 'the party of business.'

Free enterprise is not a bad idea and has produced art.

Under capitalism each individual engages in economic planning.

Free enterprise empowers entrepreneurs who have ideas and imagination, investors who take risks, and workers who hone their skills and offer their labor.

Business is at the heart of America and always has been.

To develop political and economic power in a capitalist society, you need capital.

I served in all commissioned ranks from a second Lieutenant to a Major General. And during that time, I spent most of my time being a high-class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street, and for the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer for capitalism.

Middle-class democracy has proved the best camouflage of the political dominance of big capital.

In a capitalist society all institutions are in danger of control by the counting room.

Regulation of private enterprise and not Government ownership or operation is the course rightly to be pursued in our relation to business.

… a union of power in the same hands over industry, commerce and finance, with a resulting power over public affairs.

The entrepreneurial spirit is the hallmark of the American economic system

American business is not a monster, but an expression of God-given impulse to create, and the savior of our happiness.