Best Capitalism Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“When you talk about dismantling the economy, destroying capitalism - these are things that are very scary to people who come from other countries, where government has too much control of their lives.”

“What we are against is the teaching of contested political ideas as if they are accepted facts. We don't do this with communism. We don't do this with socialism. We don't do this with capitalism.”

“The world is falling apart and nobody is there for you, 2020 has shown it over and over again. But American capitalism is.”

“Central to the effective functioning of early capitalism was the fundamental principle of trusting and being trusted.”

“Capitalism is a set of rituals.”

“With Anglo-American capitalism increasingly under attack, those who believe in the power of free markets and enterprise to create wealth and social progress must stand up and be counted and champion our way of life.”

“Clearly, for capitalism to work properly we must expect some upward normalisation of interest rates at some future point, to provide greater incentive for savers to save and investors to invest.”

“I talk about economic freedom. I talk about capitalism without fearing the word.”

“I believe that capitalism is the one thing in this world that's brought people out of poverty.”

“I believe in capitalism as long as there's a strong rule of law around it.”

“I think it's important for us not just to edit the culture that capitalism creates but to create the material basis for a culture that we want.”

“What a crazy coincidence that the teaching of Christ sees to be so compatible with late-era capitalism, suburban isolation, rampant consumerism. And so I am not ever surprised when I see evangelicals contort themselves to justify supporting Donald Trump.”

“I think that so-called capitalism and trade is a very important element in giving people opportunity.”

“The economic system that represents our civilisation will one day end, too. We'll be inside a museum - the great museum of capitalism!”

“A key focus of my administration will be the revitalization of Japan through a new form of capitalism.”

“I believe our current system of capitalism is slavery by another name.”

“I was thinking what happens if I break my leg today? What can I do to prevent me going back to the place of being poor? It led me to the world of venture capitalism. How are they making money? I decided I'm going to learn as much as I can.”

“Crony capitalism on the left and crony capitalism on the right are still crony capitalism.”

“Capitalism is the engine that has grown economies.”

“One-planet living means not only seeking to reduce our own consumption, but also mobilising against the system that promotes the great tide of junk. This means fighting corporate power, changing political outcomes and challenging the growth-based, world-consuming system we call capitalism.”

“We are against crony capitalism.”

“With each step away from communist constructivism to Hayekian capitalism, China has been richly rewarded.”

“The Unites States of America continues to represent life, liberty, and freedom. We believe in hard work and capitalism.”

“I want the United States to be having a much larger and more public conversation about racist capitalism. We need a radical reimagining of the economy in this country.”

“I always loved retail. I love the ideas behind it. I think small-business retail is one of the areas where capitalism works so wonderfully well.”

“Capitalism doesn't care about sentimentality.”

“The cycle of jobless youth, uncertainty about the future, depressing consumption, and weak investment and stresses on both the supply and demand side of economies are all thorns in the wheel of capitalism.”

“A general charge of crony capitalism is easy to make. But dividing the 'bad' crony capitalists from the 'good' innovative entrepreneurs is much harder to do. And sorting them out without creating a new group of crony capitalists may be the hardest thing of all.”

“Capitalism doesn't function when it starts to contract, and we can see that quite clearly right here in the eurozone. It's like pushing a giant monster under water that's gasping for air. It goes nuts.”

“By killing transparency and competition, crony capitalism is harmful to free enterprise, opportunity, and economic growth. And by substituting special interests for the public interest, it is harmful to democratic expression.”

“What 'Deadwood' did was to talk about how capitalism started, how civilised society came in, and how that brought its own problems.”

“Fighting for free enterprise means standing up for free markets. The freedom to succeed includes the freedom to fail. We must defend entrepreneurial capitalism against the onslaught of the American Left.”

“Minorities within nation-states frayed by global capitalism are naturally more resentful of hollowed-out but still heavily centralised systems of political and economic domination.”

“The great thing about capitalism is that it's a system that works.”

“Whole Foods Market tries to embody all of the principles of conscious capitalism all the time, but like any person or company, we sometimes fall short.”

“Overcoming the myth that there is such a thing as an objectively defined 'free market' is the first step towards understanding capitalism.”

“Capitalism is part of our system, but it's not for the faint of heart.”

“We need to revise our economic thinking to give full value to our natural resources. This revised economics will stabilize both the theory and the practice of free-market capitalism. It will provide business and public policy with a powerful new tool for economic development, profitability, and the promotion of the public good.”

“If you want to know why the towers of American capitalism are crumbling, I recommend reading 'The Creature from Jekyll Island' by G. Edward Griffin.”

“Capitalism actually encourages morality because capitalism can't function well if people can't trust each other and people aren't honest, if a deal isn't a deal.”

“Movies' mistrust of capitalism is almost as old as the medium itself.”

“Capitalism, after all, is no fun when real failure becomes a possibility.”

“It is an extreme perversion of capitalism if you can trade in something before you have even paid for it.”

“I believe in conscientious capitalism; that's a kind of driving force with me.”

“Capitalism is in crisis.”

“The great problem with corporate capitalism is that publicly owned companies have short time horizons. Unlike a privately owned business, the top executives of a publicly owned corporation generally come to their positions late in life. Consequently, they have a few years in which to make their fortune.”

“There's no doubt whatsoever that there's no future in capitalism. It's probably no more than 500 years old, and it's demonstrating over and over again that it is destroying the world.”

“Capitalism may have all sorts of things that are good, but ultimately, it's bad for everyone.”

“Black Lives Matter is the ultimate divisive movement. They aren't shy about what they don't like, which is western civilization, capitalism, and the rule of law. They really dislike the police, and certainly get the credit for the war between black men and police.”

“Since the end of the 1970s, free-market capitalism has been in, and socialism has been out.”

“You have to understand: the narrative that people have about business and capitalism is that they are fundamentally selfish, greedy, and exploitative. Of course, I don't agree with that narrative.”

“What I know is that we no longer have free enterprise capitalism in health care; it's not a system any longer where people are able to innovate. It's not based on voluntary exchange. The government is directing it.”

“Capitalism can't deliver decent health care.”

“Capitalism has shortfalls. It doesn't necessarily take care of the poor, and it underfunds innovation, so we have to offset that.”

“Capitalism is always evaluated against dreams. Utopia is a dream. It doesn't exist.”

“I've never been antiregulation. I've always believed that raw, unregulated capitalism doesn't work.”

“When you're young, you wonder what all these old people are droning on about, trying to impart their wisdom. It's not relevant to you because being young is such a specific thing. Thank God for that. Thank God for the young people who go out and demonstrate against rampant capitalism or whatever.”

“Patrimonial capitalism's legacy is that many people see reform as a euphemism for corruption and self-dealing.”

“The greatness of America is capitalism, free market capitalism. The exceptionalism of American business.”

“Knowledge about the economy, ideas about capitalism and government, the future of the world and geopolitics were things I was never really interested in.”

“I think we've been dulled by capitalism. We're just blobs now - we're so worried about how we can keep paying the lease on the car, the mortgage, the lease on the toaster and all that. You can't really think about much else. If you lose that, you lose the whole lot.”

“Our position should not be on how to eliminate the competition at all expenses, but we should focus on what we're going to do in order to make sure that Americans turn to the road of prosperity with the trajectory of capitalism, because making a profit is not an evil.”

“Capitalism is the legitimate racket of the ruling class.”

“I think you hear, at least as an undertone, and it's going to grow louder, is that we believe that capitalism is the mantra of the day and anything that creeps towards socialism is a problem.”

“This American system of ours, call it Americanism, call it capitalism, call it what you will, gives each and every one of us a great opportunity if we only seize it with both hands and make the most of it.”

“There are no two countries with the same style of economic mechanism, with the same capitalism.”

“The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty - of the indefinite expansion of possibility.”

“Capitalism is an evil, and you cannot regulate evil.”

“I invested in many companies, and I'm happy this one worked. This is capitalism. You invest in stock, it goes up, it goes down. You know, if you don't like capitalism, you don't like making money with stock, move to Cuba or China.”

“I think hard-core capitalism tends to commercialize everything.”

“What if capitalism is unsustainable, and socialism is impossible?”

“Capitalism and the market are presented as synonymous, but they are not. Capitalism is both the enemy of the market and democracy.”

“I believe in capitalism. I need to make a profit, but I would like to do it with ethics, dignity, morals. It's my dream.”

“Critics of consumer capitalism like to think that consumers are manipulated and controlled by those who seek to sell them things, but for the most part it's the other way around: companies must make what consumers want and deliver it at the lowest possible price.”

“Capitalism in and of itself is based on the monetising of human labour, and the first evidence of that is slavery. And that has never changed. We are all participating in that.”

“Trump seems to be implementing a form of coercive capitalism - in which the president publicly picks winners and losers and uses the power of the office to force corporate leaders to make specific business decisions.”

“Racism is very characteristic of imperialism. Racism is very characteristic of capitalism.”

“Predation is part of the everyday life of capitalism, in sectors as mainstream as pharmaceuticals, software and oil - where people's money, their data, their time and their attention are routinely taken in fundamentally asymmetrical exchanges.”

“Capitalism is against the things that we say we believe in - democracy, freedom of choice, fairness. It's not about any of those things now. It's about protecting the wealthy and legalizing greed.”

“With the development of industrial capitalism, a new and unanticipated system of injustice, it is libertarian socialism that has preserved and extended the radical humanist message of the Enlightenment and the classical liberal ideals that were perverted into an ideology to sustain the emerging social order.”

“We've heard some things from Pope Francis that are not fully supportive of free enterprise capitalism. That should be a problem from an American perspective.”

“Everybody's doing it. In capitalism, you try to get the highest price you can for a product.”

“I will realize more robust growth, countering intense challenges posed by an economic system operating under what can be described as state capitalism.”

“Quite a few plays I have written have an implicit critique of capitalism in that, if you follow it through to its end, what happens to the people who are left behind?”

“What Trump represents is a restoration - a restoration of true American capitalism.”

“In 21st century America, capitalism has been unfettered from the regulations that democratized it and made it serve society.”

“Capitalism and market forces are very powerful in producing wealth and innovation. But we need to ensure that these forces act in the common interest.”

“There's something about China and its rush to capitalism that I find confusing. At the same time, we live in an America where capitalists oppose any government interference with free markets, while in China you have a very controlled, state-planned market where economic growth is better than ours.”

“I want to see a capitalism that manages resources in a new, much more long-term manner.”

“Capitalism and people who control the market have a large hand in everything. It doesn't have anything to do with figuring out what the crowd wants to hear. It has to do with the media deciding what they think people want to hear.”

“Fashion is capitalism, and it will be fixed by what the market demands.”

“Every success story in this country was because of capitalism. Everything we're doing. Look at my story. It couldn't be done.”

“This idea of 'cool capitalism' is still capitalism. It doesn't matter if Elon Musk quotes Nas.”

“Capitalism would have never let me be a filmmaker, living in Flint, Michigan with a high school education. I was going to have to make that happen myself.”

“Capitalism has proven to be the only system that works, but the problem with capitalism is that extreme wealth ends up in the hands of a few people.”

“Capitalism historically has been a very dynamic force, and behind that force is technical progress, innovation, new ideas, new products, new technologies, and new methods of managing teams.”

“I think that capitalism in general is responsible, not for the worldwide recession, but for a lot of suffering, both in the United States and around the world.”

“Capitalism and political systems - like companies - must constantly evolve to stay vital.”

“The historical debate is over. The answer is free-market capitalism.”

“The Great Depression saw some sections of the business and corporate class contemplate dictatorial rule in an effort to save capitalism from a 'socialist' or 'communistic' New Deal.”