Buying and selling is
Buying and selling is essentially antisocial. Edward Bellamy
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Buying and selling is essentially antisocial. Edward Bellamy
People nowadays interchange gifts and favors out of friendship, but buying and selling is considered absolutely inconsistent with the mutual benevolence which should prevail between citizens and the sense of community of interest which supports our social system. According to our ideas, buying and selling is essentially anti-social in all its tendencies. It is an … Read more
Sisterhood is powerful. Woman can support each other as women, in their pursuit for enlightenment or anything else, without fear. But as long as she’s still in the commodities exchange market, buying and selling, she must fear the competition. Frederick Lenz
Buying and selling securities on the Stock Exchange do not start new industries. Big business never starts anything new. It merely absorbs, consolidates and profits at the expense of others. Franklin D. Roosevelt
Capitalism is not about free competitive choices among people who are reasonably equal in their buying and selling of economic power, it is about concentrating capital, concentrating economic power in very few hands using that power to trash everyone who gets in their way. David Korten
Some people who don’t like guns can’t stand the idea of so many gun owners in one place (at gun shows) buying and selling their wicked products. It’s how some communists feel when they visit the New York Stock Exchange. Dave Kopel
With a profession such as investing, people see the ‘doing’ as the buying and selling. It is difficult to come home from work, and answer your spouse’s question, ‘what did you do today?’ with ‘well, I read a lot, and I talked a little.’ If you’re not buying or selling, you may feel you aren’t … Read more
We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property, it doesn’t leave a whole lot of time for non-market values and non-market activity so that love and trust and justice, concern for the poor, that’s being pushed to the margins, and you can see it. … Read more
We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property. Cornel West
Many think of management as cutting deals and laying people off and hiring people and buying and selling companies. That’s not management, that’s deal making. Management is the opportunity to help people become better people. Practiced that way, it’s a magnificent profession. Clayton Christensen