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“There are a few people, but a diminishing number, who still believe that Marxism, as an economic system, off era a coherent alternative to capitalism, and socialism has, indeed, triumphed in one country.”

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Author:Herbert Read

“Inevitably, people tell me that poor folks are lazy or unintelligent, that they are somehow deserving of their poverty. However, if you begin to look at the sociological literature on poverty, a more complex picture emerges. Poverty and unemployment are part and parcel of our economic order. Without them, capitalism would cease to function effectively, and in order to continue to function, the system itself must produce poverty and an army of underemployed or unemployed people.”

“The great advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science or literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.”

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Author:Milton Friedman

“I would ask: Given the nature of free-market capitalism - where the rule is to rise to the top at all costs - is it possible to have a financial industry hero? And by the way, this is not a pop-culture trend we're talking about. There aren't many financial heroes in literature, theater or cinema.”

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Author:Martin Scorsese

“Like many works of literature, Hollywood chooses for its villains people who strive for social dominance through the pursuit of wealth, prestige, and power. But the ordinary business of capitalism is much more egalitarian: It's about finding meaning and enjoyment in work and production.”

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Author:Alex Tabarrok

“The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done.”

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Author:Honore de Balzac

“In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country, capitalism triumphed over democracy.”

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Author:Fran Lebowitz

“Despite what many Americans think, most Soviets do not yearn for capitalism or Western-style democracy.”

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Author:Dan Rather

“I was guilty of judging capitalism by its operations and socialism by its hopes and aspirations; capitalism by its works and socialism by its literature.”

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Book:Out of step: an unquiet life in the 20th century

Source: Out of step: an unquiet life in the 20th century

“It is probably true that business corrupts everything it touches. It corrupts politics, sports, literature, art, labor unions and so on. But business also corrupts and undermines monolithic totalitarianism. Capitalism is at its liberating best in a noncapitalist environment.”

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Author:Eric Hoffer

“The system that rewards performance over substance is the water the organization swims in, and the fish that most clearly perceives the water is not the fish that survives the competition — it is the fish that stops swimming.”

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Book:An MBA's Guide to The Great Gatsby: Untapped Wisdom from F. Scott Fitzgerald

Source: An MBA's Guide to The Great Gatsby: Untapped Wisdom from F. Scott Fitzgerald