Liza Featherstone Quotes

Economy: cutting down other people's wages.

It was hard to watch, the business side is so big in the game.

Monopoly is the condition of every successful business.

Wal-Mart provides a chilling example of the damage that low-wage, nonunion corporations can wreak, and their business model is going to set the standards for our children unless we do something now. Wal-Mart is the sewer pipe through which good jobs are being flushed.

Every successful competitive practice has victims. The more successful a new method of making and distributing a product, the more victims, the deeper the victims' injury

We have come to the point where a new machine invented in England deprives millions of Chinese workers of their livelihood within a year's time.

Monopolies have good sides to them as well as bad sides to them.

What is “destructive competition” for producers is a bargain bonanza for consumers.

The difference between Amazon and us is Amazon is more like an empire - everything they control themselves, buy and sell.

It's disconcerting that there's been this weird business model focused on teenaged boys, and it comes with a completely unexamined social cost. I hope there's an awareness happening to create an audience habituated to seeing women as they really are, rather than just a masticated shadow.

The key to the generic-drug economic model is to keep entry prices low enough to attract multiple competitors.

In the U.S., society and the environment have to pick up the tab produced by capitalist activity.

The more successful a promoter becomes, the more ruthless they've got to be.

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

Continuing down a path where profit is king is unsustainable for our society, our health and our planet.

Facebook is a powerful company, yes, but so was IBM.

Perhaps it is this specter that most haunts working men and women: the planned obsolescence of people that is of a piece with the planned obsolescence of the things they make. Or sell.

This is not charity. This is business: business with a social objective, which is to help people get out of poverty.

People hear from Donald Trump that he's such an extraordinary success. They didn't know about Trump airlines and Trump mortgages and Trump vitamin network and Trump steaks and Trump Taj Mahal. They didn't realize a lot of small people have been crushed by Donald Trump's rise to become a very wealthy man, successful financially, but this is a guy who has not been a uniform success.

My analysis, especially of the computer revolution, always comes back to capitalism. It's that economic system that has led to Western civilization's willingness to enslave ourselves to machines - because some people benefit enormously from it, while the costs are borne by other people and the planet.

People I've interviewed say they're terrified there may be boycotts of their [the Kochs] products, which include so many household items that everybody's familiar with, things like Stainmaster Carpet and Dixie Cups and Brawny paper towels and Lycra.

My predecessor taxed wealthy, successful people at a higher rate than ever before. And what happened? They left. And what came of it? Did unemployment drop? No.

After a lifetime of swimming upstream, I am convinced that one of the real secrets to Wal-mart's phenomenal success has been that very tendency.

Today's business model is bad for people, bad for the economy and bad for stability and democracy.

Liberals, communists, socialists, look at people as workers. They look at 'em as ants, worker ants, worker bees and so forth, and they just plug 'em in to do jobs that need to be done.