Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barbara Tuchman

No economic activity was more irrepressible [in the 14th century] than the investment and lending at interest of money; it was the basis for the rise of the Western capitalist economy and the building of private fortunes-and it was based on the sin of usury.

Ken Tower

A capitalist economy goes through cycles, and 2000 was the peak in the latest cycle, which had lots of similarities to the 1960s and the 1920s. Now we're somewhere in this sort of troublesome period like the 1970s.

Bill Haynie

It's just not, in my opinion, fair competition. In this free world and capitalist society, you can't get something you're willing to pay for.

Mark Heesen

It's not like a venture capitalist is going to see a payback immediately or even in the next couple years.

Tom Pickard

This organization that we disrupted today embraced the American capitalist ideal and would sell any drug that would turn a profit and did not discriminate in its dealings with any other drug organization.

Mark Heesen

A venture capitalist would rather work with three large institutional investors who give him $50 million rather than 10 individuals who give him $5 million each.

Somsak Kosaisuk

Office workers should unite and stop work for one day in order to salvage the nation dominated by the capitalist dictatorial regime.

Roger Tamraz

Thank God we're a capitalist society and there's nothing wrong with running after money.

James Tobin

The miserable failures of capitalist economies in the Great Depression were root causes of worldwide social and political disasters.

Chris Colfer

Intelligence is not a competition," she said. "There is plenty to go around, and there are many ways it can be demonstrated.

David Ricardo

Like all other contracts, wages should be left to the fair and free competition of themarket, and should never be controlled by the interference of the legislature.

Frederic Bastiat

They will come to learn in the end, at their own expense, that it is better to endure competition for rich customers than to be invested with monopoly over impoverished customers.

Frederic Bastiat

Competition is merely the absence of oppression.

Michel Patini

During such a competition players are there for a long time as well as all the people around them. They need to train, to eat, to go out. There ought to be something in it for everyone. On that particular point, my experience has been a bonus.

Greg Haga

We?re in it to win it, but we?d be out there fighting the same way if we had never won anything. We don?t see it as pressure. We see it as competition, and competition is fun.

Holly Jones

We started off slow also due to us not having the greatest competition come at us.

Carolyn Murphy

There's always competition out there. That's what makes life exciting.

Bob Lennon

We have a solid five and some good competition for those sixth and seventh spots.

Jon Holmes

The performance of the national team is very important. This season soccer has been fairly abysmal.

Madeleine Albright

Don't make me into this airy-fairy, moralist, idealist because I'm not.

Alan Lamb

We're snowbirds. This is a lot better fair than we have back in Michigan.

Zach Errett

We wrestled fairly well today. We wrestled at the Bo Henry Tournament last week; we wrestled really well there. Today, we didn't wrestle as good as we could've and I think the guys realize that; I think they kind of figured out that there may have been a few matches we lost that we should've won.

Tom Davis

We're still in discussions with some of the other sports. Hockey, in our judgment, has a fairly weak system.

John Anania

We're looking for a relatively good year in 2006, given that wages are up and the labor market is fairly tight.

Nicholas Carbone

We're looking for a fair method where all members of the party have a say. This is not a club.

Howard Safir

We grieve for Amadou Diallo and the four officers involved and pray they get a fair trial,

Irma Cabriales

We're just looking for something fair to give immigrant people an opportunity to work.

Charles Dickens

I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.

Charles Dickens

I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free. Mankind will surely not deny to Harold Skimpole what it concedes to the butterflies.

Charles Caleb Colton

Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.

Charles Spurgeon

His will cannot be neutral or 'free' to act contrary to his nature.

Alan Watts

As muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone, it could be argued that those who sit quietly and do nothing are making one of the best possible contributions to a world in turmoil.

Chogyam Trungpa

Enlightenment is ego's ultimate disappointment.

Chogyam Trungpa

When you drop your unnecessary things, you finally can swoop and fly in vast space. It is so blue, so bright, and so nice, so airy and fresh. You can stretch your wings and breathe the air. You can do anything you want. You have experienced cheerfulness and joy, and finally the bliss of freedom occurs in you.

Edward Gibbon

A martial nobility and stubborn commons, possessed of arms, tenacious of property, and collected into constitutional assemblies form the only balance capable of preserving a free constitution against the enterprise of an aspiring prince

Arnold J. Toynbee

We human beings do have some genuine freedom of choice and therefore some effective control over our own destinies. I am not a determinist. But I also believe that the decisive choice is seldom the latest choice in the series. More often than not, it will turn out to be some choice made relatively far back in the past.

Alan Green

I've bought QPP shares but unfortunately both times I bought it they immediately dropped by over 10p. Do you pay much attention to the dealing notes?

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Faith is occupied with the Object upon which it rests and pays no attention to itself at all.

Edith Piaf

Every damn fool thing you do in this life you pay for.

Arne Duncan

No one is mandating merit pay.

Les Brown

When you want something, you have to be willing to pay your dues.

Benjamin Graham

The value of any investment is, and always must be, a function of the price you pay for it.

Bertolt Brecht

It was never decreed that a god mustn't pay hotel bills.

Jose Antonio Vargas

When you're undocumented, you're supposed to keep your head down and be quiet and pay taxes, social security - even though people don't know that we do those things - and not say anything.

Cher Lloyd

Pay no attention to haters, attention is what they crave.

Daniel Kahneman

I have always emphasized the willingness to discard.

Rita Mae Brown

Don't hope more than you're willing to work.

Simon Sinek

We are only in charge when we are willing to let others take charge.

Ruth Bernhard

If you are not willing to see more than is visible, you won't see anything.

Sonia Sotomayor

I am willing to bet that there are some Puerto Ricans who don't know about [their status].

Mike Tomlin

It's not about what you're capable of, It's about what you're willing to do.

John Waters

I'd love to sell out completely. It's just that nobody has been willing to buy.

John Stossel

The happiest stutterers, I learned, are those who are willing to stutter in front of others.

Mark Zuckerberg

I would only hire someone to work directly for me if I was willing to work for that person.