Big business is basic to the very life of this country and yet many -perhaps most - Americans have a deep-seated fear and an emotional repugnance to it. Here is monumental contradiction.
Pounds are the sons not of pounds but of pence.
In economics the majority is always wrong.
The big-business mergers and the big-labour mergers have the appearance of dinosaurs mating.
No-wher so bisy a man as he ter nas And yet he semed bisier that he was.
Those who can do those who can't teach and those who can do neither administer.
There is a lovely feature of the American psyche which rejects the notion that there are victims. In America, attitude is a magical elixir that cures everything. People are supposed to believe that th...
One who criticises capitalism while approving of immigration, of which the working class is its first victim, would do better to remain silent. One who criticises immigration while remaining silent re...
If an eagle be imprisonedon the back of a coin,and the coin tossedinto the sky,the coin will spin,the coin will flutter,but the eagle will never fly.
The great weakness of the West is that it has nothing with which to inspire loyalty except wealth. But what is wealth? Another washing machine, a bigger car, a nicer house to live in? Not much to feed...
Only a man can see in the face of a woman the girl she was. It is a secret which can be revealed only to a particular man, and, then, only at his insistence. But men have no secrets, except from women...
A man isn't a man until he has to meet a payroll.
Business? It's quite simple. It's other people's money.
Competition means decentralized planning by many separate persons.
We are supposed to believe [capitalist ideology] was the champion of freedom and prosperity in the epic struggle called the Cold War. If there was such a champion, might it not have been freedom itsel...
Even with all its positive attributes, capitalism in its imperialistic form is the most treacherous system mankind ever devised. It is driven by a selfishness that has an almost religious underlining...
They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?
To convert an hourly wage to an approximate yearly salary double the wage and change the decimal to a comma.
It is not the employer who pays wages - he only handles the money. It is the product that pays wages.
Profitability is the sovereign criterion of the enterprise.