Michael Rosbash Quotes

I mean, anything that money can be made off will never be a problem to make, no matter what it is.

The commercial spirit is the spirit of profit, not patriotism; of credit, not honor; of individual gain, not national prosperity; of trade and dickering, not principle.

The selfish spirit of commerce which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.

My philosophy is to make money.

It's not selling out, it is called making lots of money.

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

They're always saying I'm a capitalistic pig. I suppose I am. But... it's good for my drumming.

The moral problem of our day is concerned with the love of money, with the habitual appeal to the money motive in nine-tenths of the activities of life…

Capitalism is economic Darwinism…free enterprise is code for individualistic amorality…the marketplace is the temple of secular humanism.

Profit is the concern of a little man.

Nobody seemed to be interested in anything except making money.

You have to be cynical because this is a business. Everyone is making money out of you.

Everything is always about people trying to make profit: Profits to this, profits to that, the more the merrier, and there's no end to it.

How can a world be good in which Money is the moving power, and Self-interest the guiding star?

Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works. Greed clarifies and cuts through to the essence of the evolutionary spirit.

Capitalism is part of our system, but it's not for the faint of heart.

It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.

However much we might deplore the profit motive, or consumerist values, if everyone just wants i-Pods we would probably be better off than if they wanted class revolution.

But men are so full of greed today, they'll sell anything for a little piece of money.

If you talk to most businessmen, they'll say that what they do is for the public good, but you know they're just greedy, and consumers are just consuming for the sake of their own greed.

I'm not interested in business for business's sake.

It's very American, making a lot of money.

There's a lot of bad isms floating around this world, but one of the worst is commercialism.

Not everything in the United States is for sale.

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