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.

Richard Rainwater

If you happen to be in the right place at the right time, the capitalist system is a beautiful thing.

Joseph Schumpeter

The evolution of the capitalist style of life could be easily ù and perhaps most tellingly ù described in terms of the genesis of the modern Lounge Suit.

George Gilder

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

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.

James Tobin

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

Ella R. Bloor

The capitalist class shoots down mothers and children. It stops at nothing, no matter how monstrous, to prevent the organization of the workers.

Alain de Botton

I love the idea of a university as away from capitalist values, where people can do things that don't immediately have to pay their way. It's like a monastery in a way, and that beautiful refuge has been destroyed by dogma about what this stuff is for.

Bill Gurley

I think one of the key differentiators I bring to the table as a venture capitalist is a solid understanding of the public markets and how they operate.

Judy Genshaft

I would say that the Legislature and the people of Tampa made a very savvy investment 50 years ago.

Art Hogan

I think we'll start getting investors into the marketplace later in the first quarter,

Robert Rubin

The only certainty is that there is no certainty.

Viviane Reding

Our policy is to encourage investment and promote freedom for industry to innovate.

Warren Buffett

Anything can happen anytime in markets. And no advisor, economist, or TV commentator-and definitely not Charlie nor I-can tell you when chaos will occur. Market forecasters will fill your ear but will never fill your wallet.

Warren Buffett

Investors should remember that excitement and expenses are their enemies.

Warren Buffett

If you buy things you do not need, soon you will have to sell things you need.

Andrew Clarke

Regionally, today is a consolidation day, and people are looking for less obvious plays. I don't think investors are that perturbed about the price of oil at the moment. They should be, but they're not.

Lee Hak

Investor sentiment is recovering on lower oil prices.

Dwyane Wade

I was in the right place at the right time to get the bucket.

Ronny Jenkins

I take my vacation this time of year every year.

Graham Elliot

Any time you can involve fake mustaches, things are just better.

Mona Singh

It is about time that TV actors were paid as well as film stars.

John Shimkus

It is a bittersweet time for many of us to be here,

Jack Smith

It is a long season, we have a long time to get at them.

Lorrie Moore

I think women do write politically all the time. Margaret Atwood does; Doris Lessing does.

Scottish Proverb

What may be done at any time will be done at no time

Lorena Ochoa

There is going to be a time when they come my way.

Linus Torvalds

Before the commercial ventures, Linux tended to be rather hard to set up, because most of the developers were motivated mainly by their own interests.

Albert Camus

Lucifer also has died with God, and from his ashes has arisen a spiteful demon who does not even understand the object of his venture.

Jim Butcher

Where instinct fails, intellect must venture.