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"The historical debate is over. The answer is free-market capitalism."
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"You know you are capitalism's ideal puppet (and that education betrayed you) when winning the lottery is your only chance to realizing financial freedom."

"I've found that small wins, small projects, small differences often make huge differences."

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

"The business card does not fully reflect who we are. We are being judged, we feel, in a humiliating way. We feel there is so much in us that has not got an expression in capitalism. You know, capitalism is a machine that recognizes outward financial, external achievement. And most of us carry all kinds of richness which we are unable to translate into that language."

"I have said it already, I am convinced that the way to build a new and better world is not capitalism. Capitalism leads us straight to hell."

"I am convinced that the path to a new, better and possible world is not capitalism, the path is socialism."

"Capitalism: let live who can afford to, not simply who wishes to. Life has a price and it belongs only to those who can pay it."

"If allowed to run free of the social system, capitalism will attempt to corrupt and undermine democracy, which is after all not a natural state."

"Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden."

"The New Deal's enmity for that system of free and competitive private enterprise which we call capitalism was fundamental."
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"It created a global platform that allowed more people to plug and play, collaborate and compete, share knowledge and share work, than anything we have ever seen in the history of the world."

"I basically did all the library research for this book on Google, and it not only saved me enormous amounts of time but actually gave me a much richer offering of research in a shorter time."

"Basically all the world's computer parts come from the same supply chain that runs from Korea, down through coastal China, over to Taiwan, and down to Malaysia."

"Two things are going on at the same time with the flattening of the world: The relentless quest for efficiency is squeezing some of the fat out of life."

"I am hoping, though, that many of them have kids, who, when they have a moment to take a break from their iPods, Internet, or Google, will explain to their parents running the country just how the world is being flattened."

"Supply chains cannot tolerate even 24 hours of disruption. So if you lose your place in the supply chain because of wild behavior you could lose a lot. It would be like pouring cement down one of your oil wells."

"You win the presidency by connecting with the American people's gut insecurities and aspirations. You win with a concept."
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