Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Skousen

Market capitalism survived and prospered after the boom-bust industrial revolution of the 19th century, and the Great Depression and world wars of the 20th century. It will recover from the financial panic of 2008-09 and Obamanomics.

Jason Calacanis

I am a huge fan of capitalism and a huge fan of entrepreneurship and changing the world with technology and with entrepreneurship. Capitalism is awesome. To me, capitalism is my religion.

David Miliband

My memories are of my dad taking me to football on Saturday mornings, and my mum taking me swimming. Those are the things I remember from my childhood, not sitting around the table debating capitalism and the profit squeeze.

Ben Shapiro

It took capitalism half a century to come back from the Great Depression.

Jesper Koll

The fact that the weak institutions are falling by the wayside is actually good news because it creates room for the strong and healthy institutions to expand their market share. That's what we're witnessing right now. Capitalism is coming to Japan and the strong will get stronger.

Robert Kiyosaki

The rise in the price of gold is a sign that capitalism has stumbled.

Michael Moore

There's nothing pure about capitalism.

Matt Taibbi

Capitalism is a system for determining objective value.

John Mackey

Free enterprise capitalism has been the most powerful creative system of social cooperation and human progress ever conceived, but its perception and its role in society have been distorted.

Lisa Cholodenko

I have enjoyed writing my own stuff, and it's been a privilege to be able to scrap some money together to be able to make films from my own scripts.

Ruth Coleman

We are proud to be able to offer such a wide variety of maps and guides for people to plan their visit, as well as souvenirs that hold memories of the enjoyable time they had.

Henry Samueli

Don't make career choices on short-term financial gain. Job satisfaction and career enjoyment are far more important.

Alexander Ovechkin

We have nine games more, we have to try to win five or six. We don't have any pressure right now and we're enjoying ourselves.

Kelly Gilmore

Whenever you have an evergreen property like Superman, retailers will enjoy enormous successbecause recognition is so high.

Ron Orlosky

We want people to enjoy life. Jess is probably looking down from heaven and smiling.

Gail Kautz

We were always very ambitious. We enjoy working hard. We had a lot of fun -- we're not done yet.

Alexa Vega

I don't expect people who've enjoyed 'Spy Kids' will enjoy 'Repo! the Genetic Opera!'

Nick Robinson

I realized I really enjoyed theatre, so I did shows up in Seattle like 'To Kill a Mockingbird' and 'Lost in Yonkers.'

Charles Dickens

Sadly, sadly, the sun rose; it rose upon no sadder sight than the man of good abilities and good emotions, incapable of their directed exercise, incapable of his own help and his own happiness, sensible of the blight on him, and resigning himself to let it eat him away.

Charles Caleb Colton

The greatest and most amiable privilege which the rich enjoy over the poor is that which they exercise the least--the privilege of making others happy.

Charles Stross

I tend to think that immortal souls, invisible sky daddies, and Santa Claus all belong in the same basket. The disposition of that basket is left as an exercise for the reader.

Charles Spurgeon

We need winds and tempests to exercise our faith, to tear off the rotten bough of self-dependence, and to root us more firmly in Christ. The day of evil reveals to us the value of our glorious hope.

Alan Watts

When we attempt to exercise power or control over someone else, we cannot avoid giving that person the very same power or control over us.

Al Oerter

To exercise at or near capacity is the best way I know of reaching a true introspective state. If you do it right, it can open all kinds of inner doors.

Edward Gibbon

The land was then covered with morasses and forests, which spread to a boundless extent, whenever man has ceased to exercise his dominion over the earth.

Edward Gibbon

The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercise.

Edith Wharton

I've always shrunk from usurping the functions of Providence, and when I have to exercise them I decidedly prefer that it shouldn't be on an errand of destruction.

Leander Paes

If I have a reason to do something, and I have enough passion, I generally succeed.

Rick Glancey

When you think of the military that's generally what you think of, green style uniforms and green style armory.

Henry Samueli

The owner's job is to hire the general manager. The general manager's job is to run the hockey team.

Rick Adelman

We're not going to sit back and let this continue. We're not happy about what's going on, and I know Mr. Geoff Petrie (the general manager) is not happy either. We have too much talent for this.

Ron Gettelfinger

We've got a pretty unique situation involving General Motors . That's why I'm optimistic.

Phil Garner

We're going to leave that to our general manager. Sure, I'd like to have Clemens back.

Jim Harrison

We're generally opposed. We feel there is already a high return rate.

Keira Knightley

What's nice about playing somebody real is that generally there's more information about them, so a lot of the questions that you'd otherwise have to make up the answers to are already there.

Chip Hanlon

With the president, Republicans are of two minds. With national security, there is a level of content. But with economics, there is a general level of discontent.

Charles Dickens

Circumstances beyond my individual control.

Alan Watts

Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.

Richard Berry

There is no magic. There is no secret. You need your sleep, ... A lot of our society tries to get by, but the truth is it is up to each individual to get their optimal sleep amount. If you get less than that you can get by temporarily, but it's only temporary.

Carl Jung

Individualization does not shut one out from the world, but gathers the world to oneself.

Elizabeth Kostova

The very worst impulses of humankind can survive generations, centuries, even millennia. And the best of our individual efforts can die with us at the end of a single lifetime.

Sathya Baba

The refinement of an individual is measured by the yardstick of sense control.

Charles Lindbergh

Life's values originate in circumstances over which the individual has no control.

Bret Bicoy

What's so promising about this is that we have all recognized as individual organizations that we can't do this alone.

Jon Wagner

We're banged up after the individual state tournament.. But these kids have been resilient all year long and we've battled through a lot this season.

Chris Carter

are out of step with modern conservation approaches.

Neil Strauss

The modern player is totally under the radar.

Aubrey McClendon

Modern life would not be possible if it were not for chemicals, nor would modern natural gas production.

Sally Deering

There are no four-letter words or vulgarity. It's got modern themes, but they are presented in an old-fashioned way.

Karen Tandy

E-traffickers are just a modern way of saying drug dealers,

Mike Dargani

We wanted to do modern Japanese. We wanted to tweak things, to play with ingredients.

Albert Einstein

If I had it [life] to do all over again, I'd have been a plumber.

E. F. Schumacher

The most striking thing about modern industry is that it requires so much and accomplishes so little.

Andrew Marr

The truth is, "What is a journalist?" is one of those questions for which there is no proper answer. The prehistory of modern journalism shows it has been a ragged and confusing trade all the way through.

David Hume

This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society.

Mark Heiderscheid

It's a tough part about the sport of soccer. You can really possess it a lot and do a lot of things right but you have to score goals.

Paul Harris

One's religion is one's own possession and he has a right to it.

Virginia Postrel

Glamour is not something you possess but something you perceive, not something you have but something you feel. It is a subjective response to a stimulus.

Tom Golisano

I'm not possessed about owning the Buffalo Bills, just as I wasn't possessed about owning the Buffalo Sabres.

Jonathan Schell

No single person can possess the wisdom to chart our course.

Dan Colen

I've always been interested in moments of disbelief... I don't know if they possess any magic, but they do have something.

Gordon W. Allport

The surest way to lose truth is to pretend that one already wholly possesses it.

Erik Crawford

Every possession was gold. It seems like every time we play Southern, it comes down to the end.