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"I've found that small wins, small projects, small differences often make huge differences."
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"Under capitalism each individual engages in economic planning."

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

"The historical debate is over. The answer is free-market capitalism."

"I think commercialism helps Christmas and I think that the more capitalism we can inject into the Christmas holiday the more spiritual I feel about it"

"What the working man sells is not directly his labour, but his labouring power, the temporary disposal of which he makes over to the capitalist. this is so much the case that I do not know whether by the English Laws, but certainly by some Continental Laws, the maximum time is fixed for which a man is allowed to sell his labouring power. If allowed to do so for any indefinite period whatever, slavery would be immediately restored. Such a sale, if it comprised his lifetime, for example, would make him at once the lifelong slave of his employer."

"Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite."

"We've each given the hours of our lives in dull rote jobs for other men's profit, and have been asked to be grateful for doing that."

"Today, in American imperialism, the commodity has reached its most grandiose historical manifestation."

"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."

"Man will never be enslaved by machinery if the man tending the machine be paid enough."
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"Leaders must wake people out of inertia. They must get people excited about something they've never seen before, something that does not yet exist."


"Companies used to be able to function with autocratic bosses. We don't live in that world anymore."


"The Martha Stewart trial makes clear how far women have risen in the business world. America can be proud of our equal-opportunity prosecution and conviction."


"I've been looking at companies that are on a positive path vs. a negative path and I've come to use the language of sports, winning streaks and losing streaks."


"The boomers' biggest impact will be on eliminating the term 'retirement' and inventing a new stage of life... the new career arc."


"The commune movement is part of a reawakening of belief in the possibilities for utopia that existed in the nineteenth century and exist again today, a belief that by creating the right social institution, human satisfaction and growth can be achieved."
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