Captains Of Industry Quotes

• Great captains of industry are as rare as great generals

  William Graham Sumner

  Captains, Organize, Industry

  William Graham Sumner (1903). “What Social Classes Owe to Each Other”, p.46, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• The captains of industry are not hunting money. America is heavy with it. They are seeking brains - specialized brains - and faithful, loyal service. Brains are needed to carry out the plans of those who furnish the capital.

  Charles M. Schwab

  Hunting, America, Faithful

  Charles M. Schwab (2005). “Succeeding With What You Have”, p.12, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Then, again, the ability to organize and conduct industrial, commercial, or financial enterprises is rare; the great captains of industry are as rare as great generals.

  William Graham Sumner

  Captains, Financial, Ability

  William Graham Sumner (1903). “What Social Classes Owe to Each Other”, p.46, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• Great military leaders have to sacrifice soldiers; great captains of industry have to sacrifice people. You can't only look after the poor, and the weak, and the disabled. You've got to do what's best for the community, and that often means sacrificing innocent people.

  David Nasaw

  Military, Mean, Sacrifice

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• If we are the greatest nation the sun ever shone upon, it would seem to be mainly because we have been able to goad our wage-earners to this pitch of frenzy.

  Upton Sinclair

  Able, Sun, Frenzy

  Upton Sinclair (2016). “The Jungle”, p.196, Xist Publishing

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• Leaders: Captains of industry.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Leadership, Captains, Industry

  Past and Present title of bk. 4, ch. 4 (1843)

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• No se puede hablar de resolver el problema económico de los negros sin hablar de miles de millones de dólares. No se puede hablar de acabar con las chabolas sin decir primero que hay que sacar beneficios de las chabolas. Realmente estás manipulando y metiéndote en terreno peligroso porque entonces te estás metiendo con la gente. Te estás metiendo con los capitanes de la industria. Ahora bien, esto significa que estamos pisando aguas difíciles, porque realmente significa que estamos diciendo que algo va mal con el capitalismo.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Taken, Mean, Talking

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• The greatest factors making for communism, socialism or anarchy among a free people are the excesses of capital. The talk of the agitator does not advance socialism one step. The great captains of industry and finance... are the chief makers of socialism.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Wisdom, People, Doe

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• As a rule, from what I've observed, the American Captain of Industry doesn't do anything out of business hours. When he has put the cat out and locked up the office for the night, he just relapses into a state of coma from which he emerges only to start being a Captain of Industry again.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Cat, Night, Office

  P. G. Wodehouse, David A. Jasen (1997). “Enter Jeeves: 15 Early Stories”, p.20, Courier Corporation

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• Muy pocos de los héroes de la Edad de Oro de las finanzas norteamericanas tenían mucho interés en las realidades sólidas de lo que subyacía a su estructura de acciones y bonos y créditos. Más adelante, Henry Ford podría introducir una era de capitanes de la industria intensamente orientados a la producción, pero los Harrimans, Morgans, Fricks y Rockefellers estaban mucho más interesados en la excitante manipulación de enormes masas de riqueza intangible que en el monótono negocio de producir bienes.

  Robert Heilbroner

  Héroe, Realidad, Edad

  "Los filósofos mundanos". Libro de Robert Heilbroner, Capítulo VIII, Thorstein Veblen (p. 224), 1953.

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• Durante todo el día este hombre trabajaría así, todo su ser centrado en el propósito de ganar veintitrés en lugar de veintidós centavos y medio por hora; y luego su producto sería contado por el censista, y los jubilosos capitanes de la industria se jactarían de ello en sus salones de banquetes, diciendo que nuestros trabajadores son casi dos veces más eficientes que los de cualquier otro país. Si somos la nación más grande sobre la que ha brillado el sol, parece ser principalmente porque hemos sido capaces de llevar a nuestros asalariados a este grado de frenesí.

  Upton Sinclair

  País, Hombres, Dos

  Upton Sinclair (2016). “The Jungle”, p.227, First Avenue Editions

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• The Captains of Industry have always counseled the rest of us "to be realistic." Let us, therefore, be realistic. Is it realistic to assume that the present economy would be just fine if only it would stop poisoning the air and water, or if only it would stop soil erosion, or if only it would stop degrading watersheds and forest ecosystems, or if only it would stop seducing children, or if only it would stop buying politicians, or if only it would give women and favored minorities an equitable share of the loot?

  Wendell Berry

  Children, Air, Ecosystems

  Wendell Berry (2001). "En presencia del miedo: tres ensayos para un mundo cambiado".

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• I wanted to be some kind of captain of industry. Then I wanted to be in advertising, and then I wanted to be a newspaper reporter.

  Ken Follett

  Captains, Kind, Advertising

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