Skip to content

A foreign visitor to the Berlin Stock Exchange would easily be deceived. There are announcements of daily quotations and price changes as though a free Stock Exchanged still existed, but nowhere would he find the former ‘public’— private buyers and sellers—as represented by independent brokers, bankers and ‘visitors.’

— Günter Reimann

Another quote →

More quotes by Günter Reimann

The existence of a state within the State—the Party and the bureaucracy—is a phenomenon of the post-War world.

The old type of capitalist who adheres to the traditional concepts of property rights is doomed to failure under fascism.

In others cases, National Socialist officials were levying harsh fines of millions of marks for a “single bookkeeping error.”

The larger the big corporations grow and the closer they become connected with the State bureaucracy, the fewer changes there are for the rise of new competitors.

While State representatives are busily engaged in investigating and interfering, our agents and salesmen are handicapped, because they never know whether or not a sale at a higher price will mean denunciation as a ‘profiteer’ or ‘saboteur’ followed by a prison sentence.

All Günter Reimann quotes →

Attribution

Quote text and notes from Wikiquote: Günter Reimann (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source quality and labels are our own summary of what Wikiquote records.