40 great quotes about Business and Capitalism

[Ichingcarpenter]

These are some of the ones that I like:

1. A criminal is a person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.
–Howard Scott

3. Nothing is illegal if a hundred businessmen decide to do it, and that’s true anywhere in the world.
–Andrew Young

5. Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.
–Karl Marx

8. I think it’s wrong that only one company makes the game Monopoly.
–Steven Wright

9. I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
–John Cleese

11. Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.
–E. F. Schumacher

17. Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
–Ambrose Bierce


38. A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don’t need it.
–Bob Hope


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[OneBlueSky]

1. one off the main problems with corporations is that, unlike real persons . . .

they can live forever . . . real persons have limited lifespans that can't be circumvented . . . corporations -- also classified as persons by the courts -- can live on in perpetuity if they so desire . . . kinda gives them a big advantage over real people, no? . . .