Robert Shea Quotes

'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.

Capitalism will kill competition.

Without competition, Silicon Valley will stop taking risks and will stop innovating.

I really don't believe in the word 'selling out.'

I don't want a trillion-dollar empire to run.

The next generation of innovators, who need neutrality the most, are not at the bargaining table. They're hard at work in their labs or classrooms, dreaming of the next big thing, and hoping that the Internet is as open to them as it was to the founders of Google.

Capitalism, after all, is no fun when real failure becomes a possibility.

The society based on production is only productive, not creative.

The U.S. government doesn't build your computers, nor do you fly aboard a U.S. government owned and operated airline. Private industry routinely takes technologies pioneered by the government and turns them into cheap, reliable and robust industries. This has happened in aviation, air mail, computers, and the Internet.

Every company that made computers when we started the Mac, they're all gone.

Despite the obvious damage now visible in the entropic desolation of every American home town, Wal-Mart managed to install itself in the pantheon of American Dream icons, along with apple pie, motherhood, and Coca Cola.

I fell in love with commerce and the opportunities that come with compelling visual storytelling.

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.

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

Marketing is the devil.

I love the way capitalism finds a place - even for its enemies.

My company invents all kinds of new technology in lots of different areas. And we do that for a couple of reasons. We invent for fun - invention is a lot of fun to do - and we also invent for profit. The two are related because the profit actually takes long enough that if it isn't fun, you wouldn't have the time to do it.

Government isn't that good at rapid advancement of technology. It tends to be better at funding basic research. To have things take off, you've got to have commercial companies do it.

Michael Moore didn't have to worry that anyone would misinterpret the title of his film, 'Capitalism: A Love Story,' because in Hollywood, no one loves capitalism. That's too bad, because Hollywood is one of capitalism's greatest successes.

I'm suspicious of the idea of architects acting like business executives, brand managers, or purveyors of luxury goods.

The relentless pressures of the so-called marketplace have distorted all our culture industries.

The land of the capitalists…

The chief business of the American people is business.

It is probably true that business corrupts everything it touches. It corrupts politics, sports, literature, art, labor unions and so on. But business also corrupts and undermines monolithic totalitarianism. Capitalism is at its liberating best in a non-capitalistic environment.

There are always giants out there trying to strangle the innovator and steal his innovation.