Socialists tend to want to pay people more money to do less work, and capitalists tend to want to provide better products at better prices.

Whether for life or death, do your own work well.

It’s not about charisma and personality, it’s about results and products and those very bedrock things that are why people at Apple and outside of Apple are getting more excited about the company and what Apple stands for and what its potential is to contribute to the industry.

I never called my work an ‚art‘. It’s part of show business, the business of building entertainment.

A true capitalist doesn’t have a job, because other people and other people’s money work for them.

Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.

I spent my life studying communism and Soviet systems.

From infancy, I have relied on the fiercely sweet spirits of black men; and this is abundantly clear in my work.

I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.

A shortage is a sign that somebody is keeping the price artificially lower than it would be if supply and demand were allowed to operate freely.

Capitalism knows only one color: that color is green; all else is necessarily subservient to it, hence, race, gender and ethnicity cannot be considered within it.

You know capitalism is this wonderful thing that motivates people, it causes wonderful inventions to be done. But in this area of diseases of the world at large, it’s really let us down.

Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done.

If you get an opportunity to work with David Simon, anybody with good taste would.

To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.

It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries, unite!

Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.

There is no victory at bargain basement prices.

Every device there is in language is there to be used, if you will. Poets have got to enjoy themselves sometimes, and the twistings and convolutions of words, the inventions and contrivances, are all part of the joy that is part of the painful, voluntary work.

When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

People who don’t like my work say that the connections seem too arbitrary. But that’s how life is.

The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.

The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.

There are people who don’t like capitalism, and people who don’t like PCs. But there’s no-one who likes the PC who doesn’t like Microsoft.

I have learned, in my life and work as a sportswriter, that big-time Sports and big-time Politics are not so far apart in America. They are both a means to the same end, which is victory… And why not? Victory is good for you, and don’t let anybody tell you different.

Nobody believes in completely unadulterated capitalism.

Marx and Engels never talked about murdering the bourgeois. According to the old bourgeois concept, the judges were the ones who judged, and the executioners were the ones who executed.

Capitalism has worked very well. Anyone who wants to move to North Korea is welcome.

Where there is no work, there is no dignity.

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

The wage for most musicians is a modest amount, and that includes me some of the time.

Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine.

No nation was ever ruined by trade.

The only fundamental and possible socialism is the socialisation of the selective breeding of man.

Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.

Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.

I like to work.

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

The environmentalists say capitalism is killing our oceans, air, land, and forests. Capitalists argue that they provide food, fuel, and building materials for a growing world.

I just think that – when a country needs more income and we do, we’re only taking in 15 percent of GDP, I mean, that – that – when a country needs more income, they should get it from the people that have it.

At times, I’ve referred to Christ’s miracles, and have said, ‚Well, Christ multiplied the fish and the loaves to feed the people. That is precisely what we want to do with the Revolution and socialism.‘

I’m interested in movement, and I’m interested in money, and I’m interested in the movement of money.

Like my friend Warren Buffett, I feel particularly lucky to do something every day that I love to do. He calls it ‚tap-dancing to work.‘

Christmas morning, I’m going to open presents with my kids. I’m going to take pictures of them opening the presents. Then I’m going to come to the Staples Center and get ready to work.

The community – more than two billion people use our products, and we get that, with that, a lot of people are using that for a lot of good, but we also have a responsibility to mitigate the darker things that people are gonna try to do.

For most of us, relationship with another is based on dependence, either economic or psychological. This dependence creates fear, breeds in us possessiveness, results in friction, suspicion, frustration.

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

If all you’re doing is grinding for the man, it’s going to burden you. Once you say, ‚Hey, I’m grinding for the man, but I’m putting money away, and this is part of my exit strategy,‘ you’re working for you.

As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.

It is a way to take people’s wealth from them without having to openly raise taxes. Inflation is the most universal tax of all.

Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth’s surface relative to other matter; second, telling other people to do so.

The rise in the price of gold is a sign that capitalism has stumbled.

Money is kind of a base subject. Like water, food, air and housing, it affects everything yet for some reason the world of academics thinks it’s a subject below their social standing.

The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.

Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions.

Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.

For people who live in the suburbs and must commute long distances to work, their wealth will sink as energy prices rise.

We had to go on and do the work of the court and we did.

Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.

Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.