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“All too much of the wage structure has been based on the time workers put in, rather than upon the product put out. The consumer dollar has no interest in how much time it buys-only in the character and quality of the product itself.”

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Author:Wheeler McMillen

“Politics are receiving a lot of attention because we have nothing else to interest us. No nation in the history of the world was ever sitting as pretty. If we want anything, all we have to do is go and buy it on credit. So that leaves us without any economic problem whatever, except perhaps some day to have to pay for them. But we are certainly not thinking about that this early.”

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Author:Will Rogers

“The men of wealth who today are trying to prevent the regulation and control of their business in the interest of the public by the proper government authorities will not succeed, in my judgment, in checking the progress of the movement. But if they did succeed they would find that they had sown the wind and would surely reap the whirlwind, for they would ultimately provoke the violent excesses which accompany a reform coming by convulsion instead of by steady and natural growth.”

“The rushed existence into which industrialized, commercialized man has precipitated himself is actually a good example of an inexpedient development caused entirely by competition between members of the same species. Human beings of today are attacked by so-called manager diseases, high blood pressure, renal atrophy, gastric ulcers, and torturing neuroses: they succumb to barbarism because they have no more time for cultural interests.”

“corporate America corrupted the watchdogs that were supposed to be guarding the public interest by feeding them under the table.”

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Book:Pigs at the Trough: How Corporate Greed and Political Corruption Are Undermining America

Source: Pigs at the Trough: How Corporate Greed and Political Corruption Are Undermining America

“For twenty years it had been generally known that an insidious Lobby was maintained in Washington to influence legislation and executive action on behalf of vested interests. ... The lobby was a creature of darkness. It worked behind closed doors and whispered in corners. This ancient industry was one form of invisible government.”

“The trade-unionist has the same limitation imposed upon him as the capitalist. He cannot advance his interests at the expense of society.”

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Author:Ramsay MacDonald

“When we control business in the public interest we are also bound to encourage it in the public interest or it will be a bad thing for everybody and worst of all for those on whose behalf the control is nominally exercised.”

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Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“The genius of capitalism lies in its ability to make self-interest serve the wider interest. The potential of a big financial return for innovation unleashes a broad set of talented people in pursuit of many different discoveries. This system, driven by self-interest, is responsible for the incredible innovations that have improved so many lives.”

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Author:Bill Gates

“As I see it, there are two great forces of human nature: self-interest, and caring for others. Capitalism harnesses self-interest in a helpful and sustainable way, but only on behalf of those who can pay. Government aid and philanthropy channel our caring for those who can't pay. But to provide rapid improvement for the poor we need a system that draws in innovators and businesses in a far better way than we do today.”

“...one of the most inventive forms of creative capitalism involves someone we all know very well. A few years ago, I was sitting in a bar here in Davos with Bono. Late at night, after a few drinks, he was on fire, talking about how we could get a percentage of each purchase from civic-minded companies to help change the world. He kept calling people, waking them up, and handing me the phone to show me the interest.”

“Did it ever occur to you, that there is no conflict of interests among men, neither in business nor in trade nor in their most personal desires - if they omit the irrational from their view of the possible and destruction from their view of the practical?”

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Book:Ayn Rand Novel Collection

Source: Ayn Rand Novel Collection

“Life is full of uncertainties. Future investment earnings and interest and inflation rates are not known to anybody. However, I can guarantee you one thing.. those who put an investment program in place will have a lot more money when they come to retire than those who never get around to it.”

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Book:Making Money Made Simple: The Aim of This Book Is to Cover the Essentials of Money, Investment, Borrowing and Personal Finance in a Simple Way

Source: Making Money Made Simple: The Aim of This Book Is to Cover the Essentials of Money, Investment, Borrowing and Personal Finance in a Simple Way

“I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams.”

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Author:H. P. Lovecraft

“What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.”

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Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.”

“We have always known that heedless self interest was bad morals, we now know that it is bad economics.”

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Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt

“It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.”

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Book:Selected Letters of Edmund Burke

Source: Selected Letters of Edmund Burke

“I find that when you have a real interest in life and a curious life, that sleep is not the most important thing.”

“To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully.”

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Book:The New Dictionary of Thoughts

Source: The New Dictionary of Thoughts

“Experience has taught me that advertisers get the best results when they pay their agency a flat fee. It is unrealistic to expect your agency to be impartial when its vested interest lies wholly in the direction of increasing your commissionable advertising.”

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Author:David Ogilvy

“Advertising is simply a use of the right of the manufacture to present his case and to employ the same arts of appeal and persuasion accorded to the politician, the preacher, the lawyer, and to every other individual who has a special interest in something, whether a creed or a commodity.”

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Author:Raymond Rubicam

“The affairs of life embrace a multitude of interests, and he who reasons in any one of them, without consulting the rest, is a visionary unsuited to control the business of the world.”

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Author:James F. Cooper