The nature of technology depends very much upon what the public can be induced to put up with. - Joan Robinson

Income from property is not the reward of waiting, it is the reward of employing a good stockbroker.

Rosa Luxemburg maintained that the capitalist system can keep up its rate of investment (and therefore its profits) only so long as it is expanding geographically.

To supply goods is a source of profit, but to supply services is a ' burden upon industry '. It is for this reason that when, as a nation, ' we have never had it so good ' we find that we ' cannot afford ' just what we most need.