All Quotes

Capital isn't scarce; vision is.
‐‐ Sam Walton

Capital isn't that important in business. Experience isn't that important. You can get both of these things. What is important is ideas.
‐‐ Harvey S. Firestone

Capital isn't this pile of money sitting somewhere; it's an accounting construct.
‐‐ Bethany McLean

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.
‐‐ Henry Ford

Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life.
‐‐ Orrin Hatch

Capital punishment is the source of many an argument, both good and bad.
‐‐ Marilyn vos Savant

Capitalism actually encourages morality because capitalism can't function well if people can't trust each other and people aren't honest, if a deal isn't a deal.
‐‐ Rick Santorum

Capitalism, after all, is no fun when real failure becomes a possibility.
‐‐ James Surowiecki

Capitalism and democracy are the opposite of each other. Capitalism is a system that guarantees that a few are going to do very well, and everybody else is going to serve the few. Democracy means everybody has a seat at the table. Everybody.
‐‐ Michael Moore

Capitalism and market forces are very powerful in producing wealth and innovation. But we need to ensure that these forces act in the common interest.
‐‐ Thomas Piketty

Capitalism and political systems - like companies - must constantly evolve to stay vital.
‐‐ Thomas Friedman

Capitalism and the market are presented as synonymous, but they are not. Capitalism is both the enemy of the market and democracy.
‐‐ David Korten

Capitalism attacks and destroys all the finer sentiments of the human heart; it ruthlessly sweeps away old traditions and ideas opposed to its progress, and it exploits and corrupts those things once held sacred.
‐‐ Daniel De Leon

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

Capitalism can't deliver decent health care.
‐‐ Timothy Noah

Capitalism does a number of things very well: it helps create an entrepreneurial spirit; it gets people motivated to come up with new ideas, and that's a good thing.
‐‐ Bernie Sanders

Capitalism does millions of things better than the alternatives. It balances supply and demand in an elegant way that central planning has never come close to.
‐‐ Jeremy Grantham

Capitalism has been interpreted as an exclusively profit-centric human engagement. Some have been saying to bring people and planet into the picture. This can be a good change, but it is still not fully operationalized. Are you putting people, planet and profit at the same level?
‐‐ Muhammad Yunus

Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.
‐‐ George Bernard Shaw

Capitalism has forced everyone to overoptimize in order to compete.
‐‐ Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Capitalism has its weaknesses. But it is capitalism that ended the stranglehold of the hereditary aristocracies, raised the standard of living for most of the world and enabled the emancipation of women.
‐‐ Camille Paglia

Capitalism has only hurt Latin America.
‐‐ Evo Morales

Capitalism has proven to be the only system that works, but the problem with capitalism is that extreme wealth ends up in the hands of a few people.
‐‐ Richard Branson

Capitalism has shortfalls. It doesn't necessarily take care of the poor, and it underfunds innovation, so we have to offset that.
‐‐ Bill Gates

Capitalism has socialized production. It has brought thousands of people together in the factory and involved them in new social relationships.
‐‐ C. L. R. James

Capitalism has worked very well. Anyone who wants to move to North Korea is welcome.
‐‐ Bill Gates

Capitalism historically has been a very dynamic force, and behind that force is technical progress, innovation, new ideas, new products, new technologies, and new methods of managing teams.
‐‐ Manmohan Singh

Capitalism in Russia has spawned far more Al Capones than Henry Fords.
‐‐ David Remnick

Capitalism inevitably and by virtue of the very logic of its civilization creates, educates and subsidizes a vested interest in social unrest.
‐‐ Joseph A. Schumpeter

Capitalism invariably boils down to barter between two willing parties, neither of whom uses force to work with the other.
‐‐ Ben Shapiro

Capitalism is a stupid system, a backward system.
‐‐ Stokely Carmichael

Capitalism is a system for determining objective value.
‐‐ Matt Taibbi

Capitalism is about adventurers who get harmed by their mistakes, not people who harm others with their mistakes.
‐‐ Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Capitalism is against the things that we say we believe in - democracy, freedom of choice, fairness. It's not about any of those things now. It's about protecting the wealthy and legalizing greed.
‐‐ Michael Moore

Capitalism is always evaluated against dreams. Utopia is a dream. It doesn't exist.
‐‐ Rush Limbaugh

Capitalism is an evil, and you cannot regulate evil.
‐‐ Michael Moore

Capitalism is an evil, and you cannot regulate evil. You have to eliminate it and replace it with something that is good for all people and that something is democracy.
‐‐ Michael Moore

Capitalism is an organized system to guarantee that greed becomes the primary force of our economic system and allows the few at the top to get very wealthy and has the rest of us riding around thinking we can be that way, too - if we just work hard enough, sell enough Tupperware and Amway products, we can get a pink Cadillac.
‐‐ Michael Moore

Capitalism is at least tolerable, which cannot be said of Socialism or Communism.
‐‐ Benjamin Tucker

Capitalism is destroying the world.
‐‐ Hugo Chavez

Capitalism is, fundamentally, an economic system that promotes inequality.
‐‐ Annalee Newitz

Capitalism is in crisis.
‐‐ Lech Walesa

Capitalism is like the law of the jungle with a few rules. There isn't another system that works for our society but left unchecked, capitalism can have a dehumanising effect.
‐‐ Mohsin Hamid

Capitalism is not about free competitive choices among people who are reasonably equal in their buying and selling of economic power, it is about concentrating capital, concentrating economic power in very few hands using that power to trash everyone who gets in their way.
‐‐ David Korten

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

Capitalism is not so much an aberration as a step on an evolutionary path, and one that contains within it some of the answers to its own contradictions.
‐‐ Geoff Mulgan

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

Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.
‐‐ John Maynard Keynes

Capitalism is the worst friend of humanity.
‐‐ Evo Morales

Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.
‐‐ Fidel Castro