Quotes · Skopia

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Labour, like all other things which are purchased and sold, and which may be increased or diminished in quantity, has its natural and its market price. The natural price of labor is that price which is necessary to enable the laborers, one with another, to subsist and perpetuate their race, without either increase or diminution.

David Ricardo

1817

★ 1.0

Essay · Economic literature

Nothing contributes so much to the prosperity and happiness of a country as high profits.

David Ricardo

1822

★ 1.1

Novel

A desire for wealth is the source of all progress. Civilization comes from what men call greed. Let your mercenary tendencies be combined with honesty and they cannot take you astray.

Anthony Trollope

1864

★ 1.8

Speech · Commencement address

Greed is all right... Greed is healthy. You can be greedy and still feel good about yourself.

Ivan F. Boesky

1986

★ 1.8

Essay · Economic literature

When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes in the code of morals... The love of money as a possession—as distinguished from the love of money as a means to the enjoyments and realities of life—will be recognized for what it is, a somewhat disgusting morbidity, one of those semi-criminal, semi-pathological propensities which one hands over with a shudder to the specialists in mental disease.

John Maynard Keynes

1930

★ 1.9

Essay · Philosophical literature

Advancing bourgeois society liquidates memory, time, recollection as irrational leftovers of the past.

Theodor Adorno

1959

★ 1.9

Novel

All the animals, the plants, the minerals, even other kinds of men, are being broken and reassembled every day, to preserve an elite few, who are the loudest to theorize on freedom, but the least free of all.

Thomas Pynchon

Gravity's Rainbow · 1973

★ 1.9

Economic literature · Political literature

Naturally, the workers are perfectly free; the manufacturer does not force them to take his materials and his cards, but he says to them…"If you don't like to be frizzled in my frying-pan, you can take a walk into the fire."

Friedrich Engels

The Condition of the Working Class in England · 1845

★ 1.9

Interview · Newspaper

For most of my life I refused to work at any problem unless its solution seemed to be capable of being put to commercial use.

Thomas Edison

1917

★ 1.9

Speech · Political speech

Civilization and profits go hand in hand.

Calvin Coolidge

1920

★ 1.9

Economic literature · Historical literature

Every piece of business strategy... Must be seen in its role in the perennial gale of creative destruction.

Joseph Schumpeter

Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy · 1942

★ 1.9

Political literature

Imperialism is the monopoly stage of capitalism.

Vladimir Lenin

Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism · 1917

★ 2.0

Newspaper

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

Henry Ford

1919

★ 2.1

Speech · Political speech

We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Second Inaugural Address of Franklin D. Roosevelt · 1937

★ 2.1

Speech · Political speech

Freedom and incentives unleash the drive and entrepreneurial genius that are the core of human progress.

Ronald Reagan

Second Inaugural Address of Ronald Reagan · 1985

★ 2.1

Film · Crime (film) · Drama (film) · Crime · Drama

You know what capitalism is? Getting fucked!

Tony Montana

Scarface · 1983

★ 2.3

Pamphlet · Political literature

The worker is the slave of capitalist society, the female worker is the slave of that slave.

James Connolly

1915

★ 3.5

Speech

There is enough in the world for everyone's need, but not enough for everyone's greed.

Frank Buchman

1938

★ 3.5

Poem

Where wealth and freedom reign, contentment fails, And honour sinks where commerce long prevails.

Oliver Goldsmith

1764

★ 3.5

Treatise · Economic literature

The market economy as such does not respect political frontiers. Its field is the world.

Ludwig von Mises

1949

★ 3.5

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