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“Life is about means not ends. There is no utopia to be gained, there is no end-state that is static and eternal, once accomplished. This was one of the great lies of communism. Likewise, capitalism...”
“Workers were required to stay six months, and even then permission to quit was not always granted. The factory held the first two months of every worker's pay; leaving without approval meant losing...”
“I think records were just a little bubble through time and those who made a living from them for a while were lucky. There is no reason why anyone should have made so much money from selling record...”
“I read recently that 60% of all drugs on the black-market had been put there by the police. No sooner are drugs seized, it seems, than they are recycled onto the streets by the arresting officers! ...”
“This American system of ours', he shouted, 'call it Americanism, call it capitalism, call it what you like, gives to each and every one of us a great opportunity if only we seize it with both hands...”
“Throw an idea into the world and its impact will ripple and reverberate beyond your side of the shore.”
“Capitalism invariably boils down to barter between two willing parties, neither of whom uses force to work with the other.”
“Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden.”
“Right now people seem to be very tentative about the positive benefits of capitalism.”
“The dynamics of capitalism is postponement of enjoyment to the constantly postponed future.”
“You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot help the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer. You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot help men permanen...”
“Those who can do those who can't teach and those who can do neither administer.”
“There can be no return to prosperity while the government (of Ontario) believes that taking money from the people who have earned it and giving it away to the people who haven't in exchange for th...”
“Anti-intellectualism has long been the anti-Semitism of the business man.”
“No-wher so bisy a man as he ter nas And yet he semed bisier that he was.”
“As one retiring chief executive said to his successor "Yesterday was the last day you heard the truth from your subordinates."”
“Commerce is greedy. Ideology is blood-thirsty.”
“Crime is a logical extension of the sort of behaviour that is often considered perfectly respectable in legitimate business.”
“Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble-making individual.”
“The big print giveth and the fine print taketh away.”
