"I am a capitalist and I believe in making a profit."

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Source : "Felix Rohatyn’s ‘Dealings’" by Robert Teitelman, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 21, 2010.

Felix Rohatyn

#Believe Quotes #Profit Quotes #Capitalist Quotes

“The key is to produce something that both pulls people together and gives them something to do.”
“If you surrender everything to the government and give it total power to plan the whole economy, this will not guarantee your economic security, but it will guarantee the descent of the entire nation to a level of miserable poverty--as the practical results of every totalitarian economy, communist or fascist, have demonstrated.”
“Masturbation never got anybody pregnant, does not make anybody go crazy, and what we're about is preventing HIV in our bright young people.”

Source : "Dr. Joycelyn Elders: Marijuana, Masturbation and Medicine". Interview with Laura Flanders, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 20, 2010.
“Optimism and pessimism are mere matters of optics, of how you look at things, and that can change from day to day, or with a new prescription for your glasses - or with a new set of ideological filters.”
“I think as long as you're straight with people, as long as you honor ground rules, as long as you serve your readers, you're going to get the door opened for you.”
“(Clothes) cannot change a man's nature. He's either kind or he isn't, with or without clothes.”
“The transformation of nature, a total fusion of science, art and technology in a sublime statement of human dignity and intelligence through the settlements we build for ourselves.”
“The good pleasure of God is an act of the divine will freely and effectively determining all things.”

Source : William Ames (1968). “The marrow of theology”

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