The essential quality of a market system, contrary to popular thinking, is not that it promotes greed; but rather, that it renders greed harmless.
– Israel M Kirzner
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- A man who wills commands something within himself that renders obedience, or that he believes renders obedience. – Friedrich Nietzsche
- Miracles are not contrary to nature but only contrary to what we know about nature. – Augustine of Hippo
- The market follows the artist. The artist does not follow the market. – Iimani David
- We’re interested in the mass-merchandising of anything. If there was a market in mass-produced portable nuclear weapons, we’d market them too – Alan Sugar
- The thing is, If you try to market to everyone, then you successfully market to no one. – Amber Hurdle
- A bull doesn’t go wrong in predicting an upswing in a falling market. He goes wrong when he predicts a down swing in a rising market. – Vijay Kedia
- Anarcho-capitalism: the realization that the only way to effectively govern the market is to have an effective market in governance. – Jakub Boydar Winiewski
- Your success in the job market has nothing to do with the job market itself – instead it has everything to do with you. – Simon Gray
- Not having a recognised brand & trying to stand out in the market is like going to the market without any goods. – Onyi Anyado
- Contrary to popular belief, going shopping is really about stopping afterward for cheesecake. – Bonnie Jensen
- Contrary to popular opinion, leaders aren’t created out of fame. Fame is just a shadow. When you enter dark times in, it leaves you. – Israelmore Ayivor
- Our society has led us to believe that everybody is on the internet these days. Contrary to popular belief everyone is not on social media. – Germany Kent
- Being a ruler is, contrary to popular notions, a calling of self-sacrifice. That is, if one wants to be a good ruler. – SD Smith
- Don’t fall asleep yet. Contrary to popular belief, that’s not where dreams get accomplished. – George Watsky
- Begging is much more difficult than it looks. Contrary to popular belief, it’s a high art form that takes years of dedicated practice to master. – Sol Luckman
- Contrary to popular belief, you can make people think, but they will hate you for it. – James Rozoff
- All that is popular is not always right. All that is right is also not always popular. Somewhere in between, lies all that is real! – rajuda
- The things that are most popular are usually rubbish, stand up for what’s important, not popular. – Alan Moore
- The things that are most popular are usually rubbish, stand up for what’s important, not popular. – Alan Moore
- Sadly we live in a society where it is more popular to be popular than to be honorable, audacious and worthy. – Sravani Saha Nakhro
- Hope is essential to any political struggle for radical change when the overall social climate promotes disillusionment and despair. – bell hooks
- The quality of your life is a function of the quality of the thinking you have done. – Pearl Zhu
- What does greed mean? Greed means taking away what belongs to others. – Dada Bhagwan
- Remember that greed includes greed for being not greedy. – Idries Shah
- Virtually all organisations known to you work largely by means of your greed. They attract you because… they appeal to your greed. – Idries Shah
- Greed harms you: generosity helps you. This is why it has been said: ‘Greed is the mother of incapacity’. – Idries Shah
- If your desire for ‘good’ is based on greed, it is not good, but greed. – Idries Shah
- The Bible sees greed as a form of idolatry, because a greedy person worships things instead of God. Greed and envy have their roots in selfishness. – Billy Graham
- We all have to feed the greed of other people until we find people to feed our greed and life goes on. – Neymat Khan
- It takes abstract thinking to see how greed can lead to prosperity, but it takes wishful thinking to claim that violence can lead to charity. – Jakub Boydar Winiewski
- Positive thinking is better than negative thinking and… No thinking is far better then positive thinking – Ed Strachar
- Thinking is no more or no less than asking questions. To improve your thinking, improve the quality of the questions you ask. – Stephanie Mbida
- War is father of all, and king of all. He renders some gods, others men; he makes some slaves, others free. – Heraclitus
- Passion often makes a madman of the cleverest man, and renders the greatest fools clever. – Franois de La Rochefoucauld
- The most fertile soil does not necessarily produce the most abundant harvest. It is the use we make of our faculties which renders them valuable. – Thomas Wentworth Higginson
- We had seen God in His splendors, heard the text that Nature renders. We had reached the naked soul of man. – Ernest Shackleton
- Injustice upon earth renders the justice of of heaven impossible. – Robert G Ingersoll
- The worship of God is-¦the only thing which renders men superior to brutes, and makes them aspire to immortality. – John Calvin
- Hatred, as well as love, renders its votaries credulous. – JeanJacques Rousseau
- Contrary to what is commonly believed, all murderers are men of extreme faith rather than unbelievers. – Orhan Pamuk