“It is a parable of pure capitalism, never jam today and a case of jam tomorrow; but as any of the Smiths will tell you, anyone who has ever sold IBM has regretted it.”
Source: The Money Game (1968), Chapter 6, What Are They In It For?, p. 68
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American author and economics commentator 1930–2014Related quotes

“Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today, and you make your tomorrow.”
The Creation Of Human Ability (1954).

“It ain't too much stuff,
Jam, it ain't too much,
It ain't too much for me to jam!”
Jam
Dangerous (1991)

“Someone who eats pancakes and jam can't be so awfully dangerous. You can talk to him.”
Source: Finn Family Moomintroll

“In reality, the labourer belongs to capital before he has sold himself to capital.”
Vol. I, Ch. 23, pg. 633.
(Buch I) (1867)

Reported in Marshall Brown, Wit and Humor of Bench and Bar (1899), p. 67. Alternately reported as "Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. Delay may give clearer light as to what is best to be done", reported in Jacob Morton Braude, The Complete Art of Public Speaking (1970), p. 84.