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“So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear that there is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free-enterprise system.”

“Columbus did not seek a new route to the Indies in response to a majority directive.”

Capitalism Majority Response Investing Routes Free Market Columbus

Author:Milton Friedman

“Inflationism, however, is not an isolated phenomenon. It is only one piece in the total framework of politico-economic and socio-philosophical ideas of our time. Just as the sound money policy of gold standard advocates went hand in hand with liberalism, free trade, capitalism and peace, so is inflationism part and parcel of imperialism, militarism, protectionism, statism and socialism.”

Source: On the Manipulation of Money and Credit

“The intellectual and social climate needed to allow entrepreneurship to thrive will not exist in advanced capitalism.”

Social Needed Intellectual Capitalism Climate Investing Entrepreneurship Thrive

Author:Joseph A. Schumpeter

“... 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.”

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Author:Warren Buffett

“The advantage of the free market system is that people invest their capital, they create jobs by investing their capital, and hopefully they get a return on that investment. I don't think there's anything wrong with good old American capitalism.”

People Thinking Jobs Return Capitalism Advantage Investment Investing Hopefully Free Market American Capitalism

Author:Steve Stivers

“The man who is admired for the ingenuity of his larceny is almost always rediscovering some earlier form of fraud. The basic forms are all known, have all been practiced. The manners of capitalism improve. The morals may not.”

Men May Form Known Moral Crime Capitalism Investing Manners Fraud Ingenuity Larceny

Author:John Kenneth Galbraith

“We can speak of the triumph of capitalism in the world, but we cannot yet speak about the triumph of democracy. There is a serious mismatch between the political and the economic conditions that prevail in the world today.”

World Today Political Speak Democracy Economic Conditions Serious Capitalism Investing Triumph World Today Mismatch

Book:Open Society Reforming Global Capitalism Reconsidered

Source: Open Society Reforming Global Capitalism Reconsidered

“Creative capitalism takes this interest in the fortunes of others and ties it to our interest in our own fortunes in ways that help advance both. This hybrid engine of self-interest and concern for others can serve a much wider circle of people than can be reached by self-interest or caring alone.”

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Author:Bill Gates

“Buffett's uncommon urge to chronicle made him a unique character in American life, not only a great capitalist but the Great Explainer of American capitalism. He taught a generation how to think about business, and he showed that securities were not just tokens like the Monopoly flatiron, and that investing need not be a game of chance. It was also a logical, commonsensical enterprise, like the tangible businesses beneath. He stripped Wall Street of its mystery and rejoined it to Main Street -- a mythical or disappearing place, perhaps, but one that is comprehensible to the ordinary American.”

Source: Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist