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“The brilliant creative core of capitalism ... is the story the entrepreneurs and capital investors tell themselves about the future. How they intend to alter it, what they expect to gain in return, where they will raise the capital to accomplish their vision. Many of their stories turn out to be flawed or mistaken, of course, but the capacity to envision a set of future events and then act to fulfill them is a central source of capitalism's strength and its dominance of society.”

Source: The Soul of Capitalism: Opening Paths to a Moral Economy

“The people of the United States will not tolerate another deep depression that arises not from any lack of natural resources, productive capacity or man and brain power, but solely from imperfections in the functioning of the system of finance capitalism.”

People Men States Natural United Brain United States Capitalism Resources Capacity Arise Finance Productive Imperfection Tolerate Natural Resources Brain Power Deep Depression

Author:Benjamin Graham

“The capacity to transform itself from the inside makes capitalism a somewhat peculiar beast - chameleon-like, it perpetually changes it colour; snake-like, it periodically sheds its skin.”

Capitalism Capacity Skins Beast Colour Peculiar Shed Snakes Chameleon

Author:David Harvey

“Financial capacity and political perspicacity are inversely correlated. Long-run salvation by men of business has never been highly regarded if it means disturbance of orderly life and convenience in the present. So inaction will be advocated in the present even though it means deep trouble in the future. Here, at least equally with Communism, lies the threat to Capitalism. It is what causes men who know that things are going quite wrong to say that things are fundamentally sound.”

Ifs Knows Men Mean Long Running Political Lying Causes Sound Trouble Capitalism Capacity Salvation Threat Financial Communism Long Runs Convenience Inaction Orderly Disturbance

Book:The great crash, 1929

Source: The great crash, 1929

“... it's important to have the right monetary policy. It's important for, to have the right fiscal policy. But it's nowhere near as important as just the normal regenerative capacity of American capitalism.”

Important Policy Normal Capitalism Capacity Investing Monetary Monetary Policy Fiscal Policy American Capitalism

Author:Warren Buffett

“East Asia confirms the superior capacity of industrial capitalism in raising the material standard of living of large masses of people.”

People Materials Mass Standards Capitalism Capacity East Superiors Asia Standards Of Living East Asia

Book:The capitalist revolution: fifty propositions about prosperity, equality, and liberty

Source: The capitalist revolution: fifty propositions about prosperity, equality, and liberty

“Adam Smith saw the greed of modern capitalism for what it was - a form of destructive ambition that may have favorable effects on the productive capacities of society, but which is of no direct benefit to anyone - not even to the greedy themselves, whose illusory chase after a will-o-the-wisp leaves them morally bankrupt and unhappy.”

May Form Saws Modern Effects Benefits Ambition Capitalism Capacity Direct Greed Unhappy Destructive Productive Adam Greedy Illusory Wisps

Author:Allen W. Wood

“I think the most important factor in getting out of the recession actually is just the regenerative capacity of - of American capitalism.”

Thinking Important Capitalism Capacity Factors Recessions American Capitalism

Author:Warren Buffett

“Capitalism means free enterprise, sovereignty of the consumers in economic matters, and sovereignty of the voters in political matters. Socialism means full government control of every sphere of the individuals life and the unrestricted supremacy of the government in its capacity as central board of production management.”

Mean Matter Government Political Individual Economic Capitalism Capacity Management Productions Socialism Consumers Boards Enterprise Voters Spheres Sovereignty Supremacy Free Enterprise

Book:Bureaucracy

Source: Bureaucracy

“Living capital, which has the special capacity to continuously regenerate itself, is ultimately the source of all real wealth. To destroy it for money, a simple number with no intrinsic value, is an act of collective insanity - which makes capitalism a mental, as well as physical pathology.”

Wells Real Values Wealth Simple Inspiring Numbers Special Source Capitalism Capacity Insanity Collectives Pathology Intrinsic Value Real Wealth

Author:David Korten

“If it is, in reality, capitalism that is the motor force behind the destructive forms of globalization, then it must be in their capacity to neutralize or transform this particular mode of exploitation that one can best test these various forms of resistance to the West.”

Ifs Reality Form Force Behinds Particular Capitalism Capacity Tests West Various Resistance Destructive Exploitation Globalization Motor

Book:Valences of the Dialectic

Source: Valences of the Dialectic

“Capitalism has neither the capacity, nor the morality, nor the ethics to solve the problems of poverty.”

Problem Poverty Morality Ethics Capitalism Capacity Solve

Author:Fidel Castro

“For over a century, popular struggles in the democracies have used the nation-state to temper raw capitalism. The power of voters has offset the power of capital. But as national barriers have come down in the name of freer commerce, so has the capacity of governments to manage capitalism in a broad public interest. So the real issue is not "trade" but democratic governance.”

“The ever-mounting glut of waste materials is characteristic by-product of modern consumer society. It might even be argued that capitalism's continual need to find of generate markets means that disposibility and waste have become the spine of the system. To consume means, literally, to destroy or expend, and in the garbage crisis we confront the underlying truth of a society in which enormous productive capacities and market forces have harnessed human needs and desires, without regard to the long or even short-term future of life on the planet.”

Source: All Consuming Images: The Politics of Style in Contemporary Culture

“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.”

Way Self Form Creative Capitalism Capacity Dignity Destruction Destroyed One Way Host Organisms Livelihood Sustaining Creative Destruction

Author:Zygmunt Bauman