Andrzej Wajda Quotes

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.

We are a mixed economy. We will remain a mixed economy. The public and private sector will continue to play a very important role. The private sector in our country has very ample scope and I am confident that India's entrepreneurs have the capacity, and the will to rise to the occasion.

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

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

Establishment of a market economy is seen as mostly involving destruction.

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.

In spite of the anticapitalistic policies of all governments and of almost all political parties, the capitalist mode of production

Capitalism is an art form.

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.

Capitalism and political systems - like companies - must constantly evolve to stay vital.

'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.

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.

The business of America is business.

I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.

I unabashedly, unashamedly, unequivocally support the explosion of entrepreneurs in the capitalist system.

The chief business of the American people is business.

I’m a big fan of the free market system but the free market system works [only] when you have robust competition.

Capitalism without capital is just an ism.

Africa has failed to develop because, our leaders opted for socialism and. short-sighted policies of seizing...private business wrecked economies by chasing off investors while taking away incentives for local business to flourish

The essential point to grasp is that in dealing with capitalism we are dealing with an evolutionary process.

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

We are on the our way to a free market economy. Regardless of the mistakes and omissions, the government has managed to implement a firm and consistent economic policy. Regardless of how incomplete it still is, the transition to free market relations and democracy has become irreversible.

Capitalism … has existed for fewer than 300 years. If the entire history of Homo sapiens was a 24-hour day, then capitalism has existed for two minutes … Economic systems come, and economic systems go. No economic system lasts forever. Capitalism is not likely to last forever, either.