Bill Gates Quotes
We can make market forces work better for the poor if we can develop a more creative capitalism-if we can stretch the reach of market forces so that more people can make a profit, or at least make a living, serving people who are suffering from the worst inequities. ... You have more than we had; you must start sooner, and carry on longer.
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Fascism is capitalism plus murder.
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Despite what many Americans think, most Soviets do not yearn for capitalism or Western-style democracy.
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What 'Deadwood' did was to talk about how capitalism started, how civilised society came in, and how that brought its own problems.
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Overcoming the myth that there is such a thing as an objectively defined 'free market' is the first step towards understanding capitalism.
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Russia and China, which have embraced autocratic capitalism, have attracted admirers and emulators by the seeming success of their strongman rule.
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Capitalism proceeds through creative destruction. What is created is capitalism in a 'new and improved' form - and what is destroyed is self-sustaining capacity, livelihood and dignity of its innumerable and multiplied 'host organisms' into which all of us are drawn/seduced one way or another.
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Happily, financial capitalism and free trade have not done away with national languages and literatures, as Marx rather too blithely hoped.
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Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower classes.
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The idea of capitalism is not just success but also the failure that allows success to happen.
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Communism can't survive the captivating allure of capitalism.
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I wish we questioned the aid model as much as we are questioning the capitalism model. Sometimes the most generous thing you can do is just say no.
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Capitalism has socialized production. It has brought thousands of people together in the factory and involved them in new social relationships.
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A person is born with a liking for profit.
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There is no sin coveting things are of no great use or profit, but would show out good and have some grandeur around them.
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Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden.
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Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.
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I've made a profit from everything I have done in life.
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At Patagonia, making a profit is not the goal because the Zen master would say profits happen 'when you do everything else right'.
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Many of the left thinkers that really matter to me - that formed a big part of my thinking about politics and art - emphasize how capitalism is a totality, how there's no escape from it, no outside.
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We need a president who is willing to uphold the law.
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Before writing, I start with a series of questions, specific things I need to know before I can write the book... That list grows and changes as I do more and more research. But when I've answered the bulk of the questions, I begin to write.
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Little less so. “My”
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We can make market forces work better for the poor if we can develop a more creative capitalism-if we can stretch the reach of market forces so that more people can make a profit, or at least make a living, serving people who are suffering from the worst inequities. ... You have more than we had; you must start sooner, and carry on longer.
