“We count, in the future as in the past, on the driving power of individual initiative, on the incentive of fair private profit, strengthened of course with the acceptance of those obligations to the public interest which rest upon us all.” PastCoursesIndividualInterestAcceptanceFairsProfitDrivingObligationInitiativeIncentivesPublic Interest Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Capitalism as a social order and as a creed is the expression of the belief in economic progress as leading toward the freedom and equality of the individual in a free and open society. Marxism expects this society to result from the abolition of private profit. Capitalism expects the free and equal society to result from the enthronement of private profit as supreme ruler of social behavior.” OrderIndividualBeliefSocialResultsProgressEconomicExpressionEqualBehaviorCapitalismProfitSupremeRulersCreedsMarxismAbolitionThis SocietySocial OrderSocial BehaviorEconomic ProgressFreedom And Equality Author:Peter Drucker
“Everybody knows that the federal government promises a lot and delivers damn little, and pays for most of what it does deliver out of the earnings of individuals rather than the profits of great corporations.” KnowsLittlesDoeGovernmentIndividualPayPromiseProfitCorporationsDamnEarningFederal Government Author:Karl Hess
“The workmen in a factory may have a shadowy, unknown absentee "employer" - the thousands of individual owners of stock - whom "management" represents and tries to please by extra dividends. The workman's livelihood is at the disposition of strangers who make a single demand of their representatives: higher profits.” TryingMayWisdomPoliticsIndividualEconomyHigherPleaseDemandManagementProfitStrangerExtrasLiberalismOwnersFactoriesRepresentativesDispositionEmployersLivelihoodDividendsWorkmen Author:Fulton J. Sheen
“A business society, therefore, always has in its children a large group of individuals who cannot make money and who do not understand (or want to understand) the profit motive. In short, they are subversives.” WantChildrenIndividualBusinessGroupsProfitMaking MoneyMotiveLarge GroupsProfit Motive Author:Margaret Halsey
“If one individual, or one class, can call in the aid of authority to ward off the effects of competition, it acquires a privilege and at the cost of the whole community; it can make sure of profits not altogether due to the productive services rendered, but composed in part of an actual tax upon consumers for its private profit' which tax it commonly shares with the authority that thus unjustly lent its support.” IfsPhilosophyWholePoliticalIndividualCommunityClassSupportShareEffectsCostTaxesAuthorityCompetitionPrivilegeProfitDuesAidsConsumersClassicAcquireProductivePolitical Philosophy Book:A treatise on political economy: or, The production, distribution and consumption of wealth Source: A treatise on political economy: or, The production, distribution and consumption of wealth