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Business Remark
The hardest thing to find is the independent business man who knows how to get all the factors working together, and who can so organize them that he can pay the bills out of the receipts. That everlasting problem spoils a good many business enterprises. I think I could run almost any business if somebody would pay the bills. I talk to a great many radical clubs. They say that capital exploits labor, that all the capitalist does is to hire some labor, underpay it, sell it at a high price and pocket the difference. Sometimes I say to them, "Now, if that is all there is to do, why don't some of you do that and make money yourself? The reason you don't is because you can't." If there are one hundred radicals present, I am pretty safe in saying that there isn't one man among them who can hire any kind of labor, pay the current wages, and get a product that he can sell for enough to pay the wages.
(THOMAS NIXON CARVER)
