Michael Moore Quotes

Capitalism will kill competition.

Critics of consumer capitalism like to think that consumers are manipulated and controlled by those who seek to sell them things, but for the most part it's the other way around: companies must make what consumers want and deliver it at the lowest possible price.

Neoclassical economics insists that advertising cannot force consumers to buy anything they don't already want to buy.

My philosophy is that you sell things for more than you bought them.

Capitalism should not be condemned, since we haven't had capitalism.

I'm not one of those people who hates Amazon because they're big. Why pay a third more for the same thing?

It's not just a matter of poor willpower on the part of the consumer and a give-the-people-what-they-want attitude on the part of the food manufacturers. What I found, over four years of research and reporting, was a conscious effort... to get people hooked on foods that are convenient and inexpensive.

In an effort to eliminate the possibility of any rival growing up, some monopolists would sacrifice democracy itself.

Capitalism is not an economic system, but a world-outlook, or rather, a part of a whole world-outlook.

The market controls everything, but the market has no heart.

Capitalism has forced everyone to overoptimize in order to compete.

Marketing is the devil.

Now, if most Americans want to go out and buy a car, they don't say, you know, 'I think I'll call the chairman of the board of Ford Motor Company and see what kind of deal we can make here.'

It is instructive, for instance, to trace the computer industry's decline in vision, idealism, creativity, romance and sheer fun as it becomes more and more important and prosperous.

Modern capitalism is masterful at producing services people don't need and in large part probably don't want. It is brilliant at convincing people that they do need and want them. But it has difficulty turning itself to the production of those services which people really do need. Not only that, it often spends an enormous amount of time and effort convincing people that those services are either unrealistic, marginal or counterproductive.

The land of the capitalists…

Free markets tend to promote democracy.

He who puts ... a product upon the market as it demands, controls that market, regardless of color. It is simply a survival of the fittest.

Our American philosophy bids us test every dogma by its results -- the dogma of competition no less than any other.

Where there's a lack of competition - as we saw with Mylan Pharmaceutical's virtual monopoly on EpiPen - price increases often follow.

There are people who don't like capitalism, and people who don't like PCs. But there's no-one who likes the PC who doesn't like Microsoft.

For many, perhaps most, Americans, markets are sacrosanct. Most people in the United States cannot even envision a society that doesn't revolve around an untrammeled market.

Tesla has defied everyone's predictions again and again. It has such a unique position in the market, and so far, whatever people think about Tesla and its business model, there is one fact that nobody can dispute: It pretty much has the market to itself.

The pharma pricing system was not built on the idea of consumer engagement. It was built... on market efficiencies. It was not built on the premise of consumerism.

I'm advocating that American citizens interested in democracy should stay out of chain stores.