Famous Quotes & Sayings

Saul Alinsky

The organized labor movement as it is constituted today is as much a concomitant of a capitalist economy as is capital. Organized labor is predicated upon the basic premise of collective bargaining between employers and employees. This premise can obtain only for an employer-employee type of society. If the labor movement is to maintain its own identity and security, it must of necessity protect that kind of society.

George Gilder

The crucial role of the rich in a capitalist economy is... to invest; to provide unencumbered and unbureaucratized cash.

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.

Janet Yellen

Will capitalist economies operate at full employment in the absence of routine intervention? Certainly not,

Ludwig von Mises

Manufacturing and commercial monopolies owe their origin not to a tendency imminent in a capitalist economy but to governmental interventionist policy directed against free trade and laissez faire.

Ernest Mandel

Workers do not strike every day, they cannot do that the way they function in the capitalist economy. The way they have to live by selling their labor power makes that impossible.

Ha-Joon Chang

Between the Great Depression and the 1970s, private business was viewed with suspicion even in most capitalist economies. Businesses were, so the story goes, seen as anti-social agents whose profit-seeking needed to be restrained for other, supposedly loftier, goals, such as justice, social harmony, protection of the weak and even national glory.

Chris McCray

It can only go one of two ways now, up or down. I think this year we really want it." ()

Devin Brown

There are so many different ways you can do that.

Tom Daschle

I think it's important for us to try to find ways to work together,

Carl Jung

Trust works both ways

Charles Richards

The march is a way to get in celebration mode.

Anthony Fauci

Better ways to diagnose, treat and prevent E. coli 0157:H7 infections are badly needed.

Rob Zombie

I love Westerns. I really love John Wayne. Frank Capra, any of his movies I love.

Richard P. Feynman

It is impossible, by the way, when picking one example of anything, to avoid picking one which is atypical in some sense.

Richard P. Feynman

While I am describing to you how Nature works, you won't understand why Nature works that way. But you see, nobody understands that.

Colin Brown

Going into the auditions, I really did not have any expectations, ... I thought it was impossible to get on the show.

Bruce Hoffman

It could be coincidence. It's an extraordinarily short turnaround it's impossible to say at this point.

Steven Goldstein

It is impossible to overestimate how much this victory means to our organization and the LGBT community.

Richelle Mead

Was Deirdre right about me purposely wanting relationships that were impossible?

Renny Harlin

It proved to be pretty impossible to get funds for a feature film in Finland. It's still small, but the film industry was miniscule at that point in the early '80s.

Will Eisner

We have this history of impossible solutions to insoluble problems.

Sasha Azevedo

For the believer, nothing is impossible. We put limitations on ourselves.

Sarah Paulson

To not have any hope is where things start to get really bleak. Things are possible. The impossible can be possible.

Warren Buffett

It's almost impossible to overpay the truly extraordinary CEO... but the species is rare.