The first thing a man will do for his ideals is lie.

The intellectual and social climate needed to allow entrepreneurship to thrive will not exist in advanced capitalism.

There is another method of obtaining money... It does not presuppose the existence of accumulated results of previous development, and hence may be considered as the only one which is available in strict logic. This method of obtaining money is the creation of purchasing power by banks. The form it takes is immaterial.

The essential point to grasp is that in dealing with capitalism we are dealing with an evolutionary process

There exists no more democratic institution than the market

Democracy is a political method, that is to say, a certain type of institutional arrangement for arriving at political — legislative and administrative — decisions and hence incapable of being an end in itself.

The capitalist achievement does not typically consist in providing more silk stocking for queens but in bringing them within the reach of factory girls in return for a steadily decreasing amount of effort.