Harold Ford Jr. Quotes

I love capitalism. It rewards me for being brave - it awards me for being innovative and thinking out of the box.

Capitalism is about adventurers who get harmed by their mistakes, not people who harm others with their mistakes.

The advantage of the free market system is that people invest their capital, they create jobs by investing their capital, and hopefully they get a return on that investment. I don't think there's anything wrong with good old American capitalism.

In essence, capitalist systems are a mechanism by which economies may generate growth in knowledge - with much uncertainty in the process, owing to the incompleteness of knowledge.

Capitalism does millions of things better than the alternatives. It balances supply and demand in an elegant way that central planning has never come close to.

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 does a number of things very well: it helps create an entrepreneurial spirit; it gets people motivated to come up with new ideas, and that's a good thing.

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

The key to the moral superiority of capitalism is that people get rich by imaginatively serving the needs of others.

Capitalism without capital is just an ism.

Capitalism is that form of private property economy in which innovations are carried out by means of borrowed money.

… capitalism is about rewards and punishments, not just rewards.

I've been dedicated to the proposition that there's been no greater wealth-creation system in the history of mankind than the American free-enterprise system.

Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

I think that so-called capitalism and trade is a very important element in giving people opportunity.

Profit, wealth creation, competition - these are not dirty words but the lifeblood of a dynamic economy.

Capitalism historically has been a very dynamic force, and behind that force is technical progress, innovation, new ideas, new products, new technologies, and new methods of managing teams.

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

The system that enables the most people to earn the most success is free enterprise, by matching up people's skills, interests, and abilities. In contrast, redistribution simply spreads money around. Even worse, it attenuates the ability to earn success by perverting economic incentives.

Capitalism works.

Markets can do many wonderful things, which is why I'm glad to live in a capitalist country.

The great thing about capitalism is that it's a system that works.

In America, business is the first object in view at all times, and rightly it should be so.

By the time I returned to Czechoslovakia, I had an understanding of the principles of the market.

The greatness of America is capitalism, free market capitalism. The exceptionalism of American business.