“We do not hear the term compassionate applied to business executives or entrepreneurs, certainly not when they are engaged in their normal work. Yet in terms of results in the measurable form of jobs created, lives enriched, communities built, living standards raised, and poverty healed, a handful of capitalists has done infinitely more for mankind than all the self-serving politicians, academics, social workers, and religionists who march under the banner of compassion.” SelfDoneJobsFormSocialTermCommunityResultsCompassionPovertyMankindPoliticianNormalStandardsBuiltEntrepreneurRaisedWorkersEngagedExecutivesMarchServingCompassionateCapitalistHandfulHealedBannerSocial WorkerSelf Serving Author:Nathaniel Branden
“The worst example of rural poverty is that of migrant farm workers. They have no permanent jobs, so they have no equity in the places where they work. They're not shareholders, let alone entrepreneurs. They're not small farmers, they're not market gardeners, they're just temporary - uprooted, isolated, easily exploitable people.” PeopleJobsPovertyWorstExampleEntrepreneurWorkersPermanentTemporaryFarmsFarmersIsolatedEquityGardenerShareholdersMigrants Author:Wendell Berry
“Most of Marx's predictions have failed to materialize, and his labor theory of value and other ideas have been proven wrong. Marx failed to recognize the incentive system built into the capitalist model - consumer choice and the profit motive of the entrepreneur. The irony is that capitalism, not socialism or Marxism, that has liberated the worker from the chains of poverty, monopoly, war, and oppression, and has better achieved Marx's vision of a millennium of hope, peace, abundance, leisure, and aesthetic expression for the 'full' human being.” HumansHas BeensIdeasWarValuesChoicesHuman BeingsVisionPovertyExpressionTheoryModelsCapitalismBuiltLaborEntrepreneurWorkersProfitSocialismOppressionChainsConsumersIronyMotiveAbundanceAestheticCapitalistLeisureProvenPredictionsIncentivesMonopolyMarxismLiberatedMillenniumProfit MotiveProven WrongConsumer Choice Author:Mark Skousen
“The riches of successful entrepreneurs is not the cause of anybody's poverty; it is the consequence of the fact that the consumers are better supplied than they would have been in the absence of the entrepreneur's efforts.” Has BeensFactsCausesEffortPovertySuccessfulConsequenceEntrepreneurRichesAbsenceConsumersSuccessful Entrepreneurs Book:Planning for freedom, and sixteen other essays and addresses Source: Planning for freedom, and sixteen other essays and addresses
“Poverty is about low, self-esteem and a lack of role models and opportunities. Without money, people resort to de-dignifying activities in order to support themselves. We free people through education and entrepreneurship. Freedom is self-determination, and you can't self-determine without understanding money and capitalism.” PeopleSelfOrderOpportunityUnderstandingFreedomMoneyEducationPovertyRolesSupportSelf EsteemActivityModelsLowsSelf ImprovementCapitalismDeterminationEntrepreneurDetermineDeterminedEsteemEntrepreneurshipRole ModelsSelf DeterminationLackingKey To SuccessResortsRoad To SuccessLow Self EsteemDetermination MotivationalCauses Of Poverty Author:John Hope Bryant
“I am an entrepreneur and my goal is to create invention to the solution of human trafficking and extreme poverty.” HumansGoalPovertySolutionsEntrepreneurExtremesInventionHuman TraffickingTraffickingExtreme Poverty Author:David Batstone
“Making loans and fighting poverty are normally two of the least glamorous pursuits around, but put the two together and you have an economic innovation that has become not just popular but downright chic. The innovation - microfinance - involves making small loans to poor entrepreneurs, usually in developing countries.” TwoCountryTogetherFightingPoorPovertyEconomicInnovationEntrepreneurPursuitDevelopingLoanGlamorousChicDeveloping CountriesMicrofinance Author:James Surowiecki