Howard Rheingold Quotes

The Chinese are no slouches when it comes to capitalism.

We are turning all Bolivians into capitalists.

The world of commerce is a kind of a purgatory itself.

One might have thought that the most significant change in the film industry that would come about with a transition from the communist economy to capitalism would fundamentally concern the sources of funding.

Right now people seem to be very tentative about the positive benefits of capitalism.

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

Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.

I love the U.S. I love doing business there.

The historical debate is over. The answer is free-market capitalism.

The chief business of the American people is business.

Agriculture, manufactures, commerce and navigation, the four pillars of our prosperity, are the most thriving when left most free to individual enterprise.

Brazil was a capitalist society without capital.

The market economy itself was not a product of violent action—of revolutions—but of a series of gradual peaceful changes. The implications of the term “industrial revolution” are utterly misleading.

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.

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

I wanted to be clear that Republicans will continue to be a champion for expanding economic freedom to trade. It is at the heart of our free-enterprise system.

In this country, we value our open, free-market system - including the way it attracts international investment and talent to our country.

Capitalism has been one of the most dynamic forces in human history, transforming one society after another, and today it has become established as an international system determining the economic fate of most of mankind.

A market system is not a profit system, it's a profit-and-loss system.

I see myself as a bit of a capitalist really - I like enterprise and making money.

Capitalism is what is left when beliefs have collapsed at the level of ritual or symbolic elaboration, and all that is left is the consumer-spectator, trudging through the ruins and the relics.

When I think about capitalism, I think about all the small businesses that were started because we have the opportunity and the freedom in America for people to do that and to make a good living for themselves and their families. And I don't think we should confuse what we have to do every so often in America, which is save capitalism from itself.

It is not uncommon to suppose that the free exchange of property in markets and capitalism are one and the same. They are not. While capitalism operates through the free market, free markets don't require capitalism.

Capitalism has been called nationalistic - yet it is the only system that banished ethnicity, and made it possible, in the United States, for men of various, formerly antagonistic nationalities to live together in peace.

Capitalism demands the best of every man - his rationality - and rewards him accordingly. It leaves every man free to choose the work he likes, to specialize in it, to trade his product for the products of others, and to go as far on the road of achievement as his ability and ambition will carry him.