Quotes · Skopia

40 quotes

The Wealth of Nations · 1776

★ 9.9

Essay

Remember that Time is Money.

Benjamin Franklin

The American Instructor: or Young Man's Best Companion · 1748

★ 8.5

Film · Drama (film) · Drama

Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Greed, in all of its forms, greed for life, for money, for love, knowledge, has marked the upward surge of mankind.

Gordon Gekko

Wall Street · 1987

★ 6.9

Film · Drama (film) · Drama

We're adding a little something to this month's sales contest. As you all know first prize is a Cadillac Eldorado, anybody want to see second prize? Second prize is a set of steak knives. Third prize is you're fired.

Blake

Glengarry Glen Ross · 1992

★ 5.3

Film · Drama (film) · Drama

Business is war. It's dog eat dog, rat eat rat. If my competitor were drowning, I'd walk over and I'd put a hose right in his mouth.

Ray Kroc

Founder · 2016

★ 5.3

Economic literature · Historical literature

The opening up of new markets, foreign or domestic, and the organizational development from the craft shop and factory to such concerns as U.S. Steel illustrate the same process of industrial mutation...That incessantly revolutionizes the economic structure from within, incessantly destroying the old one, incessantly creating a new one. This process of Creative Destruction is the essential fact about capitalism.

Joseph Schumpeter

Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy · 1942

★ 5.2

Economical literature · Political literature

Laissez faire does not mean: Let soulless mechanical forces operate. It means: Let each individual choose how he wants to cooperate in the social division of labor; let the consumers determine what the entrepreneurs should produce. Planning means: Let the government alone choose and enforce its rulings by the apparatus of coercion and compulsion.

Ludwig von Mises

Human Action: A Treatise on Economics · 1949

★ 5.1

Capitalism undoubtedly has certain boils and blotches upon it, but has it as many as government? Has it as many as marriage? Has it as many as religion? I doubt it. It is the only basic institution of modern man that shows any genuine health and vigor.

H.L. Mencken

1928

★ 4.3

Pamphlet · Political literature · Economic literature

All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind.

Karl Marx

The Communist Manifesto · 1848

★ 3.9

Essay · Economic literature

There is no way of keeping profits up but by keeping wages down.

David Ricardo

1822

★ 3.7

Speech · Political speech

These capitalists generally act harmoniously, and in concert, to fleece the people, and now, that they have got into a quarrel with themselves, we are called upon to appropriate the people's money to settle the quarrel.

Abraham Lincoln

1837

★ 3.7

Political literature

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration. Capital has its rights, which are as worthy of protection as any other rights.

Abraham Lincoln

Annual Message to Congress · 1861

★ 3.7

Economic literature · Historical literature

Economic progress, in capitalist society, means turmoil.

Joseph Schumpeter

Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy · 1942

★ 3.7

Letter

You have undertaken to cheat me. I won't sue you, for the law is too slow. I'll ruin you.

Cornelius Vanderbilt

1853

★ 3.6

Travel writing

No permanent elevation of a people can be effected without commerce.

David Livingstone

1861

★ 3.6

Economic literature

History suggests only that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition.

Milton Friedman

Capitalism and Freedom · 1962

★ 3.6

Essay

Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.

Edward Abbey

1984

★ 3.6

Speech

We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable-but then, so did the divine right of kings.

Ursula K. Le Guin

2014

★ 3.6

Film · Neo-noir · Action (film) · Action

Everything's got a price, bitch.

Iosef Tarasov

John Wick · 2014

★ 3.6

Poem

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

Oliver Goldsmith

1764

★ 3.5

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