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Attitudes of the Rich and Famous...
The American system of ours, call it Americanism, call it Capitalism,
call it what you like, gives each and every one of us a
great opportunity if we only seize it with both hands and make the most
of it.
Al Capone
The point is that you can't be too greedy.
Donald Trump, Trump: The Art of the Deal (written with Tony Schwartz,
1987).
Poverty is an anomaly to rich people. It is very difficult to make out
why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.
Walter Bagehot, 19th Century English economist
Greed is all right, by the way . . . I think greed is healthy. You can
be greedy and still feel good about yourself.
Ivan F. Boesky, U.S. financier. Commencement Address, 18 May 1986,
School of Business Administration,
University of California, Berkeley. Boesky's words were later picked up
in Oliver Stone's film, Wall Street (1987),
spoken by Gordon Gecko. Boesky himself was later convicted of conspiring
to file false documents with the
federal government, involving insider trading violations, and agreed to
pay $100 million in fines and illicit profits.
The rights and interests of the laboring man will be protected and cared
for not by our labor agitators, but by the Christian
men to whom God in his infinite wisdom has given control of property
interests of the country, and upon the successful
management of which so much remains.
George F. Baer (Railroad Industrialist)
They don't suffer. They can't even speak English.
Baer, answering a reporters' question about the suffering of starving
miners
Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men, for the
nastiest of reasons, will somehow work for the
benefit of us all.
Economist John Maynard Keynes
I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a
musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords
and harmonies.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821), French general, emperor. Quoted in:
Havelock Ellis, The Dance of Life (1923).
Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard
my family called decent.
Thomas Love Peacock (1785-1866), English author. Lady Clarinda, in
Crotchet Castle, 1831
Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened
selfishness that to-day is at the basis of all human
labor and effort, enterprise and new activity.
William Howard Taft, U.S. Republican president, Popular Government,
1913.
I wasn't satisfied just to earn a good living. I was looking to make a
statement.
Donald Trump, Trump: The Art of the Deal, (1987; written with Tony
Schwartz).
We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only
to be approached by the statistician or the
poet.
E. M. Forster, British novelist, essayist. Howards End, 1910.
A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.
Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince, 1514.
The Führer is always quite cheerful, cheerful with all his heart, when
he is having tea with his friends during the night, or
when he is training his dogs!
Martin Bormann, German Nazi leader. Annotations to letter, Dec. 25,
1943, from his wife Gerda (published in
The Bormann Letters, ed. by Hugh Trevor-Roper, 1954).
Today, almost forty years later, I grow dizzy when I recall that the
number of manufactured tanks seems to have been
more important to me than the vanished victims of racism.
Albert Speer, German architect, Nazi official. The Slave State, (1981).
I tell you, sir, the only safeguard of order and discipline in the
modern world is a standardized worker with
interchangeable parts. That would solve the entire problem of
management.
Jean Giraudoux, French writer, diplomat
Poverty is an anomaly to rich people. It is very difficult to make out
why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.
Walter Bagehot, 19th Century English economist
Any man who pays more for labor than the lowest sum he can get men for
is robbing his stockholders. If he can secure
men for $6 and pays more, he is stealing from the company.
Stockholder of American Wollen (Lawrence, Massachusetts) 1911
Told to the Rev. Harry Emerson Fosdick
We'll drive the goddamned sons-of-bitches into the river and drown them.
We'll starve them. We'll kill every damned man
of them or drive them, together with the Socialists, from the city!
Judge Davis, Minot, North Dakota, 1912,
Referring to striking Wobblies.
I don't believe that it's true that the poor will always be with us. I
think that kind of pious fatalism is just an excuse for
keeping things the way they are.
Margaret Culkin Banning, The quality of Mercy, 1963
The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as
poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of
a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich.
Consequently, the modern poor are not pitied . . . but
written off as trash. The twentieth-century consumer economy has
produced the first culture for which a beggar is a
reminder of nothing.
John Berger, British author, critic. The Soul and the Operator, in
Expressen (Stockholm; 19 March 1990;
reprinted in Keeping a Rendezvous, 1992).
I can identify with steelworkers. I can identify with workers that have
had a difficult time.
Vice President Dan Quayle addressing workers at an Ohio steel plant,1988
I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and
sixty.
Imelda Marcos, 1987
I wanted to see whether or not the great Louis XIV style, which I
consider the most beautiful style, could work in a
modern building. I didn't want to buy old columns, because they're
cracked and broken. I waited to have brand-new
minted marble columns... I've used all onyx. Onyx is a precious stone,
many times more beautiful. I don't believe there is
an apartment like this anywhere in the world. The view, the solid bronze
window frames, the fountain all brand new and
carved. Did you see the way the window shades go up and down, all
remote? And they're bulletproof... I don't care
about material needs. I could be happy in a studio apartment with a
television and a telephone.
Donald Trump, Zen Buddhist, showing off his Trump Tower digs, in
"InStyle" magazine (as excerpted by Leah
Garchik in the San Francisco Chronicle, December 5, 1995).
There is no way of keeping profits up but by keeping wages down.
David Ricardo, On Protection in Agriculture, 1820
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