While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.
Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.
Karl Marx
In the struggle for survival, the fittest win out at the expense of their rivals because they succeed in adapting themselves best to their environment.
Charles Darwin
A worried capitalist is like a comet: he always presages some disaster for the world.
“The Count of Monte Cristo” Alexandre Dumas
