Economy Quotes - Page 17

• And what rules of economy dictate that a boy without a foot is more whole than a girl without a tongue?

  Julie Berry

  Girl, Boys, Feet

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• A free society is as much a threat to the intellectual's sense of worth as an automated economy is to the workingman's sense of worth. Any social order that can function with a minimum of
  leadership will be anathema to the intellectual.

  Eric Hoffer

  Order, Intellectual, Social

  Eric Hoffer (1963). “The Ordeal of Change”

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• I think the actions taken by the (rate-setting) Federal Open Market Committee have been the appropriate actions. And I assume we will continue to take the appropriate actions, depending on what is happening with the data and the dynamics of the economy

  Bill Vaughan

  Taken, Thinking, Data

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• Countries, therefore, when lawmaking falls exclusively to the lot of the poor cannot hope for much economy in public expenditure; expenses will always be considerable, either because taxes cannot touch those who vote for them or because they are assessed in a way to prevent that.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Country, Fall, Way

  Alexis de Tocqueville (1990). “Democracy in America”

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• A strong American economy is essential to the well-being and security of our friends and allies.

  Ronald Reagan

  Strong, Allies, Essentials

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan)., Ronald Reagan, United States. Office of the Federal Register (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

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• The economy of the United States gross domestic product doubled from 1996 to 2015, doubled, more than, $8.8 trillion to $17.1 trillion. And the median household income went down.

  Mark Shields

  United States, Income, Gross Domestic Product

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• You can't have a healthy economy without sound money, which is why we're on the verge of very serious economic problem.

  Ron Paul

  Healthy, Sound, Serious

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• The United States is the only advanced economy with no paid parental leave for either mothers or fathers.

  Brigid Schulte

  Mother, Father, United States

  "CNN journalist Josh Levs forced his employer to give new dads more time off. Now he wants others to speak up, too". www.washingtonpost.com. June 15, 2015.

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• Women's liberation, if not the most extreme then certainly the most influential neo-Marxist movement in America, has done to the American home what communism did to the Russian economy, and most of the ruin is irreversible.  By defining relations between men and women in terms of power and competition instead of reciprocity and cooperation, the movement tore apart the most basic and fragile contract in human society, the unit from which all other social institutions draw their strength.

  Ruth Wisse

  Home, Men, America

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• The [Communist] Party has one objective: the creation of a socialist economy; and one means: the utilization of the class struggle.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Party, Struggle, Mean

  "Dirty Hands". Play by Jean-Paul Sartre, Act 5, sc. 3, 1948.

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• The world political system is till based on the concept of the national sovereign state. For the first time therefore, in three hundred years economy and sovereignty are becoming divorced from each other.

  Peter Drucker

  Years, Political, Three

  "Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices". Book by Peter F. Drucker, 1973.

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• Economy, the poor man's mint.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Men, Economics, Poor

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1849). “The Poetical Works”, p.353

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• Words change their meanings, just as organisms evolve. We would impose an enormous burden on our economy if we insisted on payment in cattle every time we identified a bonus as a pecuniary advantage (from the Latin pecus , or cattle, a verbal fossil from a former commercial reality).

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Latin, Reality, Bonus

  Stephen Jay Gould (2002). “The Structure of Evolutionary Theory”, p.1070, Harvard University Press

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• Economy is essential to all good art.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Art, Essentials, Good Art

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• To balance Fortune by a just expense, Join with Economy, Magnificence.

  Alexander Pope

  Balance, Magnificence, Economics

  Alexander Pope (1873). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope Edited with Notes and Introductory Memoir by Adolphus William Ward”, p.252

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• The market is sovereign and in the magic economy of the small entrepreneur there is no authoritarian center... in the political sphere... the equilibrium of powers prevails, and hence there is no chance of despotism.

  C. Wright Mills

  Political, Entrepreneur, Magic

  C. Wright Mills (2000). “The Power Elite”, p.242, Oxford University Press

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• A fundamental contradiction does not exist between socialism and a market economy.

  Deng Xiaoping

  Doe, Fundamentals, Socialism

  1985 Address to US businessmen organized by Time magazine, 18 Dec.

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• The key problem is to find out why that sector of society of the past, which I would not hesitate to call capitalist, should have lived as if in a bell jar, cut off from the rest; why was it not able to expand and conquer the whole of society?... [Why was it that] a significant rate of capital formation was possible only in certain sectors and not in the whole market economy of the time?

  Fernand Braudel

  Cutting, Past, Keys

  Fernand Braudel (1982). “Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Century: The wheels of commerce”, p.248, Univ of California Press

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• Economy and ideology. The claim (presented as an essential postulate of historical materialism) that every fluctuation of politics and ideology can be presented and expounded as an immediate expression of the structure, must be contested in theory as primitive infantilism, and combated in practice with the authentic testimony of Marx, the author of concrete political and historical works.

  Antonio Gramsci

  Expression, Practice, Political

  "Selections from the Prison Notebooks". Book by Antonio Gramsci, 1971.

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• It is a game, the whole ball of wax is a game - your life, my life, politics, economy, hunger.

  Mandy Patinkin

  Games, Balls, Hunger

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• Spin-off technologies are changing the culture. Even if you don't become an engineer you could be a poet, a journalist, a lawyer, but you will be thinking innovation and your actions within society, who you vote for, what you value, all become a participant in an innovation economy.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Technology, Thinking, Innovation

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Honing a thing down until you can still get through with economy, that's power.

  William Dobell

  Power, Stills, Honing

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• I've lived through periods of illiquidity before. Asset prices come down. The economy slows or even goes into recession. Then the cycle re-starts. We buy at lower prices with less leverage.

  Stephen A. Schwarzman

  Assets, Periods, Recessions

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• Plutonium is so hazardous that if you had a fully developed nuclear economy with breeder reactors fueled with plutonium, and you managed to contain the plutonium 99.99 percent perfectly, it would still cause somewhere between 140,000 and 500,000 extra lung-cancer fatalities each year.

  John Gofman

  Cancer, Years, Causes

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• Eric Schlosser's book on the economy and strategies of the fast-food business should be read by anyone who likes to take their children to fast-food restaurants. I shall certainly never do that again. He employs a long, cold burn, a quiet and impassioned accumulation of detail, with calm, wit and clarity. (...) Fast Food Nation is witness to the rigour and seriousness of the best American journalism, readable, reliable and extremely carefully done.

  Adam Nicolson

  Children, Book, Long

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