Louis O. Kelso Quotes About Wealth

Quotes about: Wealth

• Everyone should own a piece of the wealth-producing capital of this country, but not everyone can be a manager. Or should be.

  Louis O. Kelso

  Country, Wisdom, Pieces

• If capital produces most of the economy's wealth and income is distributed on the basis of productive input, the individual can hardly reach his goal - an affluent level of income - solely by means of his labor.

  Louis O. Kelso

  Wisdom, Mean, Goal

  Louis O. Kelso, Patricia Hetter Kelso (1967). “Two-factor Theory: the Economics of Reality; how to Turn Eighty Million Workers Into Capitalists on Borrowed Money, and Other Proposals”, New York : Vintage Books

• Take Milton Friedman, he sits at his desk pontificating about such bunk as the monetary system being the answer to our problems. The monetary system is a legal contrivance. Property, not money, is real wealth. It's physical, not legal.

  Louis O. Kelso

  Wisdom, Real, Answers

• The idea that full employment without property ownership will solve the world's problems is utter nonsense. The Keynesian concept that the function of capital is merely to amplify labor, not independently produce wealth is simply blindness.

  Louis O. Kelso

  Wisdom, Ideas, Amplify

• The poor lack money. They lack money because they do not know the secret of productive wealth. They know it is possible to be old, unemployed, uneducated, lazy - even halt, deaf, dumb, and blind-and still be excessively rich. But you have to be in on the secret, and the poor by definition are not.

  Louis O. Kelso

  Wisdom, Dumb, Secret

• Work is a means; it is not an end. And for any tasks that can be performed or eliminated by a capital instrument, human labor is not the best means... Furthermore, we have science, engineering and management - the three disciplines - that really plan and control the production of goods and services, trying to eliminate labor. Who the hell is government to come along and try to create labor? The people who are producing wealth are trying to eliminate toil, while the politicians are trying to create it.

  Louis O. Kelso

  Mean, Government, Engineering

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